Medical Devices (Smaller OEMs)

FDA compliance is costing you thousands of hours a year.

Class I and II device manufacturers operate under FDA and ISO 13485 requirements that demand traceable, auditable evidence. But when DHR data is scattered across systems, supplier documents are in email, and audit prep is a scramble, compliance becomes a burden that pulls your team away from innovation. The device makers who scale are the ones whose systems generate compliance evidence automatically.

$2.3M: Average cost of a Class II medical device recall. Prevention is cheaper.
3risks Launchpad captures
3roadmap steps
$2.3Mindustry signal
What We Fix

Where Medical Devices operations usually break down.

Launchpad captures the failure modes that create operating drag and places the technology response on the Roadmap: disconnected systems, weak records, manual handoffs, compliance exposure, and AI blocked by unreliable data. Metrotechs scopes and delivers the engineering work.

$2.3M average cost of a Class II medical device recall

Device History Records are assembled at audit time

DHR completeness is discovered during audit or quality investigation — not maintained in real time. Records are scattered across production logs, email, and shared drives. Traceability is reconstructed after the fact. FDA finds gaps. You scramble to close them.

30–40% of operations time spent on regulatory inquiry response

Supplier qualification documentation is everywhere

Vendor assessments, supplier audits, and compliance certificates are stored in email archives and shared drives. When you need to prove a supplier was qualified or audited, finding the evidence takes days. Regulatory queries are nightmares.

200–300 hours of manual work per ISO/FDA audit cycle

ISO 13485 / 21 CFR audit prep is a years-long project

Pre-audit documentation is assembled manually — design records, risk assessments, validation studies, training records. The quality team spends weeks pulling documents from disparate systems. Auditors always find gaps. You remediate the same issues every cycle.

What Gets Better

The outcomes Metrotechs designs around.

The goal is not software for its own sake. The goal is an operating stack where the right records, workflows, controls, and AI use cases are governed by systems your team owns.

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Device History Records are maintained automatically

When production parameters, lot numbers, and quality data are captured in one system, DHR completeness is automatic. Every production decision is traceable. Traceability investigations take hours, not weeks.

02

Supplier compliance is documented and visible

When supplier assessments, audit reports, and compliance documents are centralized and version-controlled, you can answer "prove this supplier was qualified" in minutes. Regulatory inquiries become routine.

03

Audit readiness is a dashboard, not a scramble

When design records, risk assessments, validation documentation, and training records live in the system, audit prep is a report run — not a weeks-long search through email. Auditors see control, not chaos.

04

You spend less time proving compliance and more time making devices

When your system generates the compliance evidence automatically, your quality team focuses on preventing problems instead of documenting them after the fact.

Manufacturing Sub-Industry

Medical Devices manufacturers with system complexity hiding in daily work.

Metrotechs is a fit when the real problem is not one application. It is the handoff between records, approvals, production, fulfillment, finance, reporting, and customer commitments.

01

Class I/II medical device manufacturers, $10M–$100M revenue

Launchpad records this pressure, the evidence, owners, and risks on the Roadmap. Metrotechs scopes the AI, data, cloud, ERP, integration, workflow, reporting, and governance work required to address it.

02

OEMs and contract manufacturers, FDA-registered, 25–150 employees

Launchpad records this pressure, the evidence, owners, and risks on the Roadmap. Metrotechs scopes the AI, data, cloud, ERP, integration, workflow, reporting, and governance work required to address it.

03

Pre-510(k) or DE Novo cleared device makers

Launchpad records this pressure, the evidence, owners, and risks on the Roadmap. Metrotechs scopes the AI, data, cloud, ERP, integration, workflow, reporting, and governance work required to address it.

04

Organizations currently managing FDA compliance through manual documentation and spreadsheets

Launchpad records this pressure, the evidence, owners, and risks on the Roadmap. Metrotechs scopes the AI, data, cloud, ERP, integration, workflow, reporting, and governance work required to address it.

How Launchpad And Metrotechs Work Together

Metrotechs and the client use Launchpad to develop the Roadmap and engineer the response.

Metrotechs and the client use Launchpad to structure the current state and record priorities, dependencies, owners, risks, and stage gates. Metrotechs then architects and delivers the AI, data, cloud, ERP, integration, workflow, reporting, and governance work the managed Roadmap identifies.

01

Metrotechs scopes the technology response to your current regulatory compliance and documentation practices

Metrotechs reviews how you currently capture and maintain DHR, supplier qualification documents, design records, and validation documentation. Metrotechs quantifies the cost of dispersed systems and manual traceability.

  • Regulatory compliance audit
  • Documentation traceability assessment
  • Current systems inventory
02

Metrotechs designs the FDA / ISO 13485 compliant system

Metrotechs maps how ERP will capture production parameters for automatic DHR generation, maintain centralized supplier records, and store design and validation documentation so everything is version-controlled and auditable.

  • DHR capture workflow design
  • Supplier document management
  • Design record integration
03

Metrotechs connects the AI-ready operating support

Metrotechs configures the system, migrate your documentation, and validate that the system generates compliant records. Your quality team is trained to maintain regulatory control inside the system.

  • System configuration
  • Documentation migration
  • Compliance validation
Where We Start

The first areas Metrotechs inspects.

These readiness areas narrow the first assessment into concrete AI, data, cloud, ERP-connected, integration, workflow, reporting, and governance decisions.

Readiness Area

Device History Record Completeness and Traceability

Reviews how DHR data is currently captured and stored. Identifies gaps and quantifies the cost of manual traceability investigations.

Readiness Area

Supplier Qualification and Documentation Compliance

Assesses current supplier management practices against FDA/ISO 13485 requirements. Identifies documentation gaps and shows the cost of regulatory exposure.

Readiness Area

Audit Readiness and Compliance Documentation Efficiency

Measures the time and effort required for current audit preparation. Identifies documentation that exists but is hard to find. Quantifies the opportunity for automated compliance evidence.

From Industry Pressure To Roadmap

Start with the operating constraint, then sequence the system work.

Launchpad captures the operating constraint, practical AI opportunities, data dependencies, cloud control, ERP records, integration handoffs, workflow constraints, reporting gaps, owners, and risks. Metrotechs uses the Roadmap to scope delivery.