{"id":20639,"date":"2016-03-17T09:52:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T16:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jamasoftware.com\/?p=20639"},"modified":"2023-01-12T16:55:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T00:55:42","slug":"plexus-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamasoftware.com\/legacy\/blog\/2016\/03\/17\/plexus-case-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Customer Story: Plexus Medical Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few complex processes require more scrupulous attention to detail than taking a product from concept to design, through development and into manufacturing. And when it comes to medical device design and manufacturing, nothing is more critical than quality and compliance.<br \/>\nFor more than 30 years, Fortune 500 companies have turned to Plexus engineers to design, develop and test healthcare and life sciences products. Plexus is ISO 13485 and Quality System Regulation compliant with engineering teams and manufacturing facilities around the world.<br \/>\nIn order to ensure regulatory approval, Plexus needs to be able to guarantee traceability and documentation. After considering a variety of solutions for a collaborative, compliance &#8211; and audit-friendly requirements management tool, the team selected Jama.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20671\" src=\"https:\/\/static.jamasoftware.com\/www\/imports\/2016\/03\/Plexus-Collab-BOARDROOM.jpg\" alt=\"Plexus Collab BOARDROOM\" width=\"745\" height=\"553\" \/>&#8220;Our main performance measurement is the repeat business we receive from our customers. They don\u2019t come back if we\u2019re not meeting the schedule and project budget. 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