Design Control Solution for R&D and Systems Engineering

Cognition for R&D and Systems Engineering Leaders

Helping you drive innovation with the highest possible quality while reducing time to market

Lead the Way

R&D and Engineering leaders have some of the most exciting roles in delivering the innovation pipeline. At the same time, they face significant challenges related to balancing resources and portfolios of products, with pressure on time to market, while ensuring high quality.

Cognition can help. Our design control solution—specifically created for medical device manufacturers—will fit seamlessly into your current processes while saving you time and resources.

What You’ll Experience

We provide both an out-of-the-box solution and highly configurable workflows, making it easy for your R&D and Engineering team to transition efficiently to Cognition. Key features and functions include:

Built-in workflows for creating the risk management plan, design history file, PHA, use error analysis, FMEA, and product risk analysis
Configurable workspace specific to R&D and Engineering tasks
Document-centric views for easy reporting
Guided compliance templates for ISO 14971, ISO 13485, and 21CFR820.30
Change once, update everywhere capabilities
Reusable data across projects
Embedded test methods, protocols, and reporting directly linked to requirements
Integrated requirements, risk, and test management
Automated trace matrices throughout design and development
Seamless data imports/integrations with other systems

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Key Benefits

Enhance Efficiency and Collaboration

With integrated requirements, risk, and test management, you’ll save time and resources while enhancing collaboration across cross-functional teams.

Simplify Complex Processes

Easily build relevant connections between items, automatically create complex trace matrices, reduce manual updates, and more.

Ensure Compliance

Tightly integrate risk with requirements and tests to enhance quality and ensure compliance and optimal risk management throughout all phases of design and development.

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What R&D and Engineering Leaders Say

Our risk module from Cognition enables us to effectively manage risk. The ‘plug’ nature of the risk module means we have simpler implementations with faster benefits. Ultimately, we are saving time and seeing better risk management.”

– Ian Bennett, IT R&D Leader, Smith & Nephew

With Cognition, we instantly gained access to document templates, workflows, and a knowledge base, which guided us to perform our processes in better compliance with critical standards and good engineering practices.”

– Miklos Czeller, R&D Director, Mediso

Cognition’s solution ensures teams spend significantly more time focused on productive work, rather than building and maintaining documents and complex traces. This allows us to run lean and still accelerate our time to market.”

– Chris Henry, Senior Manager, Software Quality and Engineering, Epic Sciences

Before Cognition, we were manually creating data and data connections that were maintained in paper DHFs that were difficult to scale. Now, we are able to create the same data and links in a way that allows Zimmer Biomet to easily maintain large trace matrices.”

– Shaun Cronin, PLM Associate Director, Zimmer Biomet