Medical Technologies

The creation of documentation for medical products has to comply with highest quality and care. So, technical writers need to comply with requirements, such as GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) to accommodate quality not only in the production environment and processes, but also for all related product documentation.

GRIPS addresses the following core requirements:

• Shortened innovation cycles

• Increasing product complexity

• Reconciliation of numerous product variants to maximize re-use of existing information

• Accommodate constantly growing documentation volume for growing product variants

• Increasing language variants for new market penetration

• Necessity for simultaneously shipping product with all technical information in multiple corresponding languages ("simship")

• Time and cost pressure for translation, data preparation and quality assurance

• Compliance with all State, Federal and International legal requirements (GMP, FDA, Regulatory Affairs)

GRIPS provides advantages throughout the entire information life cycle:

• Add scalability to any type of information architecture

  • Leverage investment across enterprise

• Effectively manage content in semantic structure

  • Optimal flexibility allows business agility in changing landscape

  • Ease of adding new standards

  • Enable greater corporate-wide accessibility to current, accurate product information, throughout all stages of the product life cycle

• Single vendor with integrated components

  • Greater efficiencies through optimized, cross-functional integration

  • Collaboration enabling parallel authoring and review

  • Translation directly linked into Information Units (IU)

  • Reduced costs for upgrades and cross-vendor dependencies

• Information Units (IUs) organized via Axes

  • Information accessible and findable

  • Optimal re-use to match product development