TCS, Siemens tie-up for medical industry solution

Tata Consultancy Services and Siemens PLM Software on Thursday entered into an agreement for Teamcenter for Medical Devices, a fully-integrated solution for medical device industry.

"Teamcenter is an innovative solution that caters to the needs of the growing global medical devices market. Teamcenter encapsulates predefined compliance needs of the industry thus making it easy and reliable to use," TCS Vice-President (Engineering Services) Rengu Ayyaswamy said.

Teamcenter would look to provide end-to-end

management of the medical devices industry's product lifecycle. It would enable companies to fully trace all activities from concept to retirement by automatically linking compliance requirements with engineering and specification data, it said.

The solution combines compliance management, traceability and reporting capabilities to help medical devices manufacturers address quality and regulatory requirements, increasing competition and demanding time-to-market pressures, it added.