Streamline Compliance with PTC Application Lifecycle Management
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Topic Sheet Streamline Compliance with PTC Application Lifecycle Management Gain visibility and control over safety-critical products Manufacturers face unique regulatory challenges. The PTC Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution is the only ALM solution that implements risk and safety analysis as an integral part of the product development process. Manufacturers face unique challenges as they tackle Comply, improve, transform the regulatory landscape. First, they must adhere to multiple, overlapping standards created by different Some organizations begin their compliance journey regulatory bodies, each with its own approach to out of necessity. Others invest in process frameworks, developing specifications and measuring conformance such as CMMi, in order to improve the maturity of their with these provisions. For example, medical device teams. Regardless of how the journey began, nearly manufacturers fall under the scrutiny of the FDA for all organizations realize powerful benefits that extend devices marketed in the US, and the EU Medical Device beyond a certification checklist. Investing in processes Directive in Europe. Next, regulations and associated and tools that expand visibility and control over the standards are continuously evolving, requiring product delivery process realizes tangible benefits manufacturers to repeatedly monitor and fine-tune in the form of predictable product delivery, higher their regulatory response. In addition, manufacturers quality products, more productive teams, and reduced must demonstrate compliance across an increasingly manual overhead. complex product portfolio. Makers of smart, connected products, which typically combine one or more physical product variants with multiple software variants, face even greater management complexities. To succeed in increasingly Moving towards a common compliance framework fierce global competition, we Although specific standards vary widely, industry needed to ensure traceability leaders are converging on a common set of best practices that can be adapted to any set of regulatory “for requirements, including requirements. These leaders have discovered that functional safety, and to introduce a common platform, which enforces process and traceability as a by-product of engineering activities, tools that further increase our allows them to more easily adapt to multiple sets of regulatory requirements and manage their impact software quality and development across evolving product lines. efficiency.” Mr. Yoshihiro Miyazaki, Electronic Platform Technology, Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd. Page 1 of 5 | Topic Sheet PTC.com Topic Sheet Best practices for demonstrating compliance Yet not all requirements management solutions are capable of solving this problem. The key is how Through our work with customers and industry the requirements management solution enables experts across the regulated manufacturing reuse of common requirements across product spectrum, we have learned some best practices for lines and variants. Solutions that attempt to solve enforcing compliance with regulatory mandates or this problem by copying subsets of requirements achieving CMMi certification. These best practices across product sets are inherently error-prone can be automated through the use of ALM solutions and brittle, and ultimately fail to scale to today’s powered by PTC Integrity. They are: modern manufacturing environments. PTC Integrity™ manages re-use through a sophisticated and self- Create a foundation for compliance requirements documenting branch and re-use model. This model reuse. Consider any component within your product streamlines compliance by allowing manufacturers to proactively manage and intelligently propagate changes as products and regulations evolve. PTC Integrity is the backbone of Ensure all engineering artifacts are adequately managed, with auditable history, relation to change Hella’s development activities. It records, and electronic signatures. Throughout the product lifecycle, significant documentation would be impossible to facilitate is required by both manufacturer and regulator in “projects of this magnitude, under order to demonstrate the existence of thorough design controls. Some manufacturers are subject to such tight time constraints, explicit regulations governing the usage of electronic signatures as specified in US Federal 21CFR Part without this solution. It allows 11. For others, consolidation of documentation into a system that supports electronic signatures is for better, faster, and easier simple common sense. Too often, systems of record are distributed across emails, paper and electronic collaboration. Integrity has records, requirements specifications, and design enabled us to become compliant documents that are maintained using Microsoft Office tools or some form of issue tracking tool. This with SPICE Level 3.” approach, however, makes it difficult to synchronize disparate data and impossible to document that Jürgen Belz appropriate change controls were in place. Solving Head of Automotive Software Standards, Hella these challenges requires consolidation of key product documentation in one coherent platform with change bill of materials (BOM). The regulatory requirements control governing all assets. the component must fulfill may vary depending on the component’s country of origin, the country where Create and enforce a compliance-aware it will be marketed and sold, and the product and development process. Manufacturers of smart, product variant it will become part of. Now multiply connected products must do more than document that that problem by thousands of components and dozens software meets safety-critical requirements. They of products and product variants, and you’ll quickly must also document that the process used to develop discover why manufacturing leaders rely on advanced and deliver the software was controlled. This means requirements management solutions to manage the that only authorized users had access to lifecycle complex web of regulatory requirements across their artifacts, the team building the software followed product supply chain. Page 2 of 5 | Topic Sheet PTC.com Topic Sheet agreed-upon procedures, and lifecycle artifacts their product design and development lifecycle. were validated at key control points. In addition, Other manufacturers choose to adopt a risk-based they must assure that the development process methodology because it provides a more holistic itself cannot be circumvented through unauthorized framework for ensuring product safety. PTC Integrity access or changes to work products created outside provides greater visibility into risk by documenting of the approved process. With an auditable software product hazards, risks, and risk control measures lifecycle, you’ll be able to provide reports that within the overall product design and development demonstrate adherence to the approved development lifecycle. Not only do out-of-box templates satisfy ISO process on demand. A customizable and process- 14971 and 26262 requirements for capturing hazards, centric workflow has the additional benefit of helping risks, and risk control measures, they also enhance improve team collaboration and productivity. PTC safety by tracing risk control measures directly to the Integrity provides out-of-the box process templates requirements, design specifications and (if applicable) that can be modified to meet specific team needs, software which mitigates them. Charts provide and because all development artifacts sit on a unified exception reporting that alerts teams to unacceptable platform, enforcement is built in. and residual risks. PTC Integrity is unique in its ability to trace your risk documentation through the entire Gain insight and visibility through end-to-end systems and software engineering lifecycle. traceability. At the core of product engineering are the systems and software development processes that Automate compliance reporting. Implementing a connect all engineering artifacts. Quality assurance complete, single-solution approach where product managers must ensure complete test coverage of design, risk management, and verification and all requirements and design specifications within validation activities are managed within a single, a project. They should be able to easily evaluate connected framework provides a foundation for progress against the stated plan to ensure that quality comprehensive, automated, and accurate compliance and compliance objectives are being met. Traceability reporting. Now you can quickly and easily respond is also key to managing the impact of changes, to audits with reports and documents that satisfy including changes to regulations and late-stage design regulatory authorities. Powerful querying, charting, modifications. A coherent ALM platform addresses reporting, and dashboards provide visibility into this need by providing auditable change records with requirements coverage, validation and verification complete traceability through affected software activities, product development status, and, where artifacts. Built on top of an enforceable process necessary, hazard and risk analysis. model, these change records deliver a “single source of the truth” on the current and projected status of A cross-industry solution team activities. This insight helps organizations guide team priorities and can be included in history files to Companies who rely on the PTC ALM solution have satisfy regulatory reporting requirements achieved CMMi certification