On-Demand Solutions for Medical Device Manufacturing
Some of the world's leading medical device manufacturers including Siemens Medical Solutions and Abbott Diagnosticsrely on Astoria to manage their most critical product information – documentation to support the operation, maintenance and support of products used worldwide by healthcare professionals. Astoria On-Demand provides medical device manufacturers a document publishing solution with optimized content globalization capabilities by enabling content component reuse and seamless collaboration across widely dispersed groups, while creating output independent content to publish to any delivery format. For global organizations, Astoria speeds the multi-language translation process to speed time-to-launch for products sold globally. Updating documentation is faster, and less costly too, since only content components that have been changed are sent for translation. One Astoria customer reduced its annual translation budget by 90%, and accelerated translation time from three months to three weeks with Astoria. It's ideally suited for global medical information publishing.
The bottom line? Lower production costs, faster time-to-market, increased revenue, improved competitive stance, and greater customer satisfaction with product information that's consistent across product lines and geographic regions.
KEY COMPONENTS OF ASTORIA ON-DEMAND SOLUTIONS FOR MEDICAL DEVICE MANUFACTURING:
Astoria On-Demand :
the industry's most comprehensive on-demand solution for building, managing, and assembling DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) content. Astoria On-Demand combines a very fast XML content engine, automated workflow and review and collaboration features, in a single, Internet-accessible, hosted solution.
Astoria Content Integrator:
state of the art and patent-pending differencing engine automates the time consuming and resource intensive process of manually accepting and integrating content from OEMs, regulatory agencies and suppliers
Astoria Filtered Publisher:
enables organizations to generate operations manuals dynamically and customize them to a specific device requirement unique to each customer
FEATURES AND BENEFITS OF ASTORIA ON-DEMAND MEDICAL DEVICE MANUFACTURING SOLUTIONS INCLUDE:
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| Enhanced Quality |
Fast searches and reliable cross references ensure content re-use and integrity |
Improve content integrity and accuracy |
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| Increased Productivity |
Includes all traditional change page capabilities with added Astoria element level controls to support a wide variety of printed and digital output requirements |
Lower printing and distribution costs by producing change packets with each revision cycle |
| Incorporates updated and third-party content, and automatically identifies content, structure and attribute changes |
Minimizes the number of 'changed pages' for publications, and automatically generates table of contents, indexes, list of affected pages |
| Integrates and identifies updates/revisions to existing documents issued from third-party partners/suppliers using Astoria Content Integrator |
Maintain the most current content automatically, even from suppliers and partners |
| Integrates workflow, e-mail, and assembly management of change page process |
Frequent revision cycles can be managed simultaneously, regardless of complexity |
| Provides the ability to create change packages for a specific, customized product configuration (Astoria Filtered Publisher) |
Maintenance and user manuals can be customized to specific model # , delivering faster search and access to relevant content that's easier to use |
| Single source repository makes all content available for re-use and repurposing on an automated basis |
Maximize content re-use, while minimizing effort to create and update content |
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| Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Higher ROI |
Easy to install, use, and maintain |
Eliminates the need for DBAs or technical IT specialists, saving valuable engineering time |
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