Regulatory Analysis Solution (RAS™) for Product Lifecycle Management

Is protecting your brand critical?
Is innovation one of your core business drivers?
Is speed to market essential for your company to remain competitive?

If the answer is ‘yes’ to any of these questions then integrating product compliance effectively and efficiently into the design and rollout of your products should be a top priority. In today’s complex and constantly shifting regulatory environment, automation, integration and centralisation of information are key ingredients in successfully achieving sustainability objectives.

Atrion and Infor have partnered to deliver a solution that will enable organisations to meet these challenging business objectives enabling your company to maintain its innovation and competitiveness.

Regulatory Analysis Solution (RAS™) is designed to meet the unique needs of process industries including Food and Beverage, Paints & Coatings, and Specialty Chemical manufacturers. It delivers regulatory compliance within Infor’s Product Lifecycle Management OptivaTM application so companies are able to:

• Design for compliance
• Pro-actively monitor compliance
• Document and prove compliance

Key Features of the solution:

• Fully integrated product compliance expert with PLM Optiva that enables you to review and validate compliance at all phases of development
• Empowers formulators and R&D staff by enabling them to automatically create and view draft regulatory documents
• Streamlines processes by managing regulatory approval workflows
• Allows for consistent regulatory information throughout the product lifecycle by leveraging a common centralized product compliance engine
• Allows automatic generation of key compliance documents, labels, and reports    
• Global regulatory scope including over 150  (M)SDS formats (North America, EU, Asia-Pacific, China, REACH compliant, GHS etc.) and extensive language translations
• Comprehensive and dynamic collection of chemical and automated legislative rules maintained and updated quarterly by Atrion compliance experts

With RAS™, processing companies can now:

• Include regulatory requirements early on, in the product design phase
• Support constraint-based product development “check early–check often.”
• Increase speed-to-market globally for new products
• Pro-actively monitor ongoing regulatory changes for existing products for new legislation such as REACH & GHS
• Shift from a reactive approach to a more strategic approach—increasing profitability

RAS™ delivers tremendous value for companies who:

• Offer complex product lines
• Are R&D focused with made-to-order and short product cycles
• Maintain high-volumes of products, suppliers, customers
• Manage mixtures/blends/reactive products
• Have a significant amount of international trade
• Have sophisticated/complex business environments

For more information, contact us.
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