
How to make facing FDA audits easy
Clarissa Archer · Harmonic Bionics
Harmonic Bionics
Clarissa Archer discusses the challenges of preparing for audits, particularly with strict regulators like the FDA. She emphasizes the need for a reliable "source of truth" for documentation. With Unifize, they seamlessly produce, present, and access records, simplifying audits and boosting confidence in their processes.
Transcript
- 0:00
So yeah, when you have the big scary FDA people or whoever coming out, you know, you have everything that you need and the whole source of truth right there in writing, you know, you're able to say, “Here's why we made those choices and here's what those choices were”.
- 0:15
You have the ability to print it out on a PDF so you can show them, here's the final product. You know, all the sins are hidden, but they're able to be there so that you remember, you know, when you're being asked very specific questions that, two years from now when you're audited, it's really easy to forget why you made one specific choice.
- 0:35
And so being able to have that conversation there and that history is huge because then you, you know, you present them with the nice PDF that Unifize makes for you with the whole audit trail, everything you need.
- 0:46
And then you have like the less formal conversation that you can look back on. And you know, when they say, why did you make these choices? And you kind of look and you're like, Oh yeah, of course I forgot.
- 0:56
About that, you know, there was an error. There was, you know, a trending issue with some non conformance. And here's why we made those choices. And you can come off very professional prepared without having to say, you know, putting on your professional face. Let me let me get back to you. Let me look into that and furiously typing over at the, you know, the people in the back room who are flipping through papers, freaking out. You have it all there.
- 1:23
You know, a lot of these things take years to happen, whereas with Unifize, we were able to get it done with about four weeks in order to start utilizing our change controls and our documentation controls
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