(Cognition Corp.: Bedford, MA) -- Cognition Corp., a worldwide leader in Web 2.0 product development software, has released Cognition Cockpit 5.6, providing medical device companies a system that captures the breadth of their product development data in a single, unified model. Information from risk management flows together with information from the complaints database, requirements documents, test methods, marketing research, and cost estimates.

“Medical device companies struggle with the challenge of creating and maintaining a complete trace of all the decisions and interactions between each part of the system,” says Michael Cronin, CEO of Cognition Corp. “A typical failure mode is when the corporate complaints system reports occurrences of certain failures that don’t match the predicted levels in the teams’ risk management plan or FMEA [failure mode effects analysis]. It used to be that someone had to manually check to make sure the information coming from the field was properly updated in the product risk plans and then manually enter a change and make the proper notation,” Cronin adds. 

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