Applying standards to many medical devices requires your product and prototypes to be versioned.
This involves a range of practices, processes and tools to guarantee traceability of any product evolution, and a record of the complete history and all versions.
Maatel uses two ‘versioning’ tools:
- GFORGE: collaboration management software for tracking product modifications and non-conformities, and associating them with a version.
- Subversion (abbreviation: svn): version management software
Apart from compliance with medical standards, versioning tracks improvements for after-sales service of previous versions of your product, and to plan possible technical improvements.