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Operational Excellence

LEADING
INNOVATION

Seamlessly relocating production while maintaining
quality, compliance, and operational continuity.

OVERVIEW

Optimizing Performance Throughout Your Product Lifecycle

Cirtec's operational excellence delivers efficiency, reliability, and continuous improvement across your entire product journey. Our proven methodologies minimize risks while maximizing cost-effectiveness, from resilient supply chain management to seamless facility transfers and disciplined program execution.

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Operational Excellence

Supply Chain Management

Our resilient supply chain solutions ensure reliable access to critical materials and components, mitigating risk while optimizing costs throughout your medical device lifecycle.

Strategic supplier qualification validates partners against regulatory and quality requirements.

Inventory management balances material availability with cost efficiency for production continuity.

Global sourcing strategies identify alternate suppliers to mitigate single-source vulnerabilities.

Digital tracking systems maintain component traceability from raw materials through finished devices.

Program Management

Our dedicated program managers coordinate cross-functional teams to guide your medical device from concept to commercialization, ensuring milestones are met on time and within budget.

Comprehensive project planning aligns resources with critical path activities to maintain schedules.

Regular milestone reviews provide transparency and early identification of potential challenges.

Risk management processes anticipate and mitigate issues before they impact timelines.

Cross-functional collaboration integrates engineering, quality, regulatory, and manufacturing expertise throughout development.

Plant Transfer Expertise

We provide seamless manufacturing transfers between facilities while maintaining product quality, regulatory compliance, and uninterrupted production for your medical devices.

Risk assessment identifies critical process parameters to preserve during facility transitions.

Parallel validation activities minimize production disruptions during transfer implementation.

Comprehensive documentation ensures knowledge transfer between sending and receiving sites.

Cross-functional transfer teams coordinate activities across quality, engineering, and operations.

 Lean/Six Sigma Culture

Our Lean/Six Sigma culture drives continuous improvement across all operations, enhancing quality, reducing waste, and optimizing manufacturing processes to deliver superior medical devices with greater efficiency and reliability.

Six Sigma DMAIC process validates all critical manufacturing processes to >1.33 Cpk capability standards.

Layered Process Audit (LPA) systems ensure consistent quality oversight throughout production.

Comprehensive certification programs paired with 100% non-destructive testing.

In-house automation technology enables high-speed inspection capabilities of up to 12 parts per second.

EXPERTISE
OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE

Minimizing Risk
Maximizing Success

  • Seamless transfers maintain quality across facilities
  • Strategic supply chain optimizes costs and availability
  • Continuous improvement drives ongoing process optimization

Cirtec's operational excellence methodologies transform complex challenges into streamlined solutions. By applying proven techniques across supply chain, program management, and manufacturing operations, we create robust processes that deliver consistent quality while adapting to evolving market demands.

Our data-driven approach continuously identifies improvements that enhance efficiency while maintaining the highest standards.

Supporting Your Innovation Journey at Every Stage

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Research,
Design &
Development

Our comprehensive research, design, and development capabilities bridge the gap between innovative concepts and commercial-ready medical devices. By combining engineering excellence, rapid prototyping, and deep regulatory knowledge, we deliver solutions that optimize performance while ensuring manufacturability and compliance.

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Manufacturing Services

Cirtec's manufacturing expertise ensures your medical devices are produced with exceptional precision, consistency, and quality. Our ISO-certified facilities combine advanced technology with decades of experience to deliver complex components and finished devices that meet the most demanding specifications and regulatory requirements.

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Quality & Regulatory Management

Our integrated quality and regulatory approach streamlines your path to market while ensuring compliance at every stage. By incorporating quality by design principles and leveraging our deep regulatory experience, we help minimize approval timelines and reduce development risks for even the most complex medical devices.

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