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DHF Best Practices

Is the design documentation process delaying your product release?

Learn more about the best practices that speed up the DHF management process.

Save time, free up resources and ensure regulatory compliance.

Design Inputs Uncovered

Requirement Management for medical device development. Regulatory demands on the requirement elicitation process and structure can have unforeseen effects.

Find out more about the particular implications induced by the medical device regulations during the design input elicitation process. 

Modular DHF

Document your product once and use intelligent document reuse to save time and money.

If several of your medical devices contain the same components, it might make sense to modularize your DHF documentation.

Read more about how Tecan reduced its time to produce DHFs by applying a modular development documentation approach.

Regulatory Traceability

Traceability is a core concept in Medical Device design documentation.

Find out how the effect of the required traceability increases the DHF complexity and why paper based documentation is inherently inept to deal with the challenges of the constantly changing DHF trace structure. 

Product Brochure

Learn more about how Aligned Elements can speed up the medical device development process and free up valuable resources.

Aligned Elements is a Medical Device ALM software written for Medical Device experts by Medical Device experts, taking both daily ease-of-use as well as regulatory compliance challenges into account.

Risk Management from the trenches

In this Risk Management survey, we cover the conventions used by four medical device companies to comply with ISO 14971. 

Six steps to easier DHF Management

Compiling the Design History File takes a considerable effort, often significantly more than initially anticipated. There are, however, great optimizations waiting to be discovered once you take a close look at the DHF process! 

Customer Story - Sony's mSafety says, "Yes, you can"

Sony developed mSafety which combines a user-friendly wearable health/wellness device with a reliable back-end solution.

Read more about the development of mSafety and their reasoning for choosing Aligned Elements for Design Control Management.

Customer Story - Managing Medical Devices in 70 countries by pjur

For more than 25 years, the pjur group has supplied the global market with medical and cosmetic products

Read more about how pjur uses Aligned Elements to manage their portfolio of devices in 70 countries.

The road to efficiency

Are you spending too much time on documentation?

Medical device documentation inefficiencies proliferate throughout the industry.

When the primary focus is compliance, the documentation process efficiency often gets overlooked.

Use our self-assessment to uncover, identify and eliminate inefficiencies in your organization.

User Manuals

User Manual (Aligned Elements Web Client)

The complete Aligned Elements user manual available for download.

The reference document for the functionality of Aligned Elements.

User Manual (Aligned Elements Windows Client)

The complete Aligned Elements user manual available for download.

The reference document for the functionality, administration and configuration of Aligned Elements.

Aligned Elements Importer

The Aligned Elements importer is used to import DHF content from existing Word, Excel, and CSV files such as requirement documents, specifications, and risk assessments.

This user manual describes the configuration options available for the Aligned Elements document importer.

Word Examples

Aligned Elements flexible reporting allows full flexibility in the look-and-feel of the Word output.

The reporting includes Design Items, trace tables, FMEA tables, risk summaries, and much more.

Some examples of applied reporting layouts are presented in this document.

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