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Carla Neves

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Carla Neves is Critical Manufacturing’s Quality Manager and Medical Device Product Owner. She enjoys long walks with her family and the connection with nature. Carla holds an Electric and Electronics Engineering Degree and her major Industry 4.0 interests are Quality Management, Automation and IoT connectivity.

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A woman in a lab coat and gloves inspects a machine, highlighting the importance of quality in the MedTech industry.
Medical device manufacturing December 7, 2022
Cost of quality in MedTech

This article addresses the cost of quality in the industry and the role played by the MES platform in helping reduce these costs.

Quality inspectors
Medical device manufacturing June 23, 2022
AQL in Medical Device Manufacturing and the role of MES in its implementation

The constant need to deliver a near zero-defect production for every single lot produced is a challenge and requires the most modern tools possible to make quality management both precise and cost-effective.

CAPA: Worker using a tablet to ensure customer satisfaction and quality management
Medical device manufacturing March 4, 2022
MES and Integrated CAPA

In a digitized CAPA management system, actions and alarms are triggered automatically, and containment action may begin almost immediately once an event is detected.

A man, with short black hair, and a woman, with blonde hair, in white lab coats, are standing in a brightly lit corridor, discussing data on a tablet in a laboratory setting while applying DataOps principles.
Medical device manufacturing November 10, 2021
DataOps and Automated Validation – Building Quality into Validation Practices

It is due to the self-actuating nature of DataOps in capturing, streamlining and enriching data that it is gaining popularity in the Regulated industry segments.

Medical device manufacturing May 6, 2021
Automated Validation: Accelerating MES Implementations in Regulated Environments

The Automated Validation approach is crucial in helping companies to reduce the time and cost of their validation efforts by at least 60-70%.