Each phase leaves design-control records: user needs, design inputs and outputs, verification, validation and the risk file. When a field problem appears, investigators trace back through those records, which is where MDARIX starts.
Feedback loop. A field problem is traced back through these records.
Phase 0Concept and ideation
Intended use
First hazards
Phase 1User needs and feasibility
User needs
Development plan
Phase 2Design inputs and prototyping
Design inputs
Risk analysis
Phase 3Detailed design and design controls
Design outputs
Design reviews
Phase 4Verification and validation
Verification
Validation
Phase 5Manufacturing transfer and regulatory submission
Design transfer
Submission
Phase 6Post-market surveillance and feedback loops
Complaints
CAPA
MDARIX starts here
Risk fileOpened at the first hazards and updated in every phase, through to what the field reports.
A product issue may involve a component, material, supplier, or supplier change. MDARIX helps teams connect supplier and component information with product records and emerging signals, supporting clearer investigations and impact assessments.
Component Intelligence
See how component relationships affect product decisions.
Components connect product design, suppliers, manufacturing, risk, and field performance. MDARIX helps teams see these relationships in context, making it easier to assess whether a component-related issue may affect other products or versions.
Lot / Batch Intelligence
Assess lot and batch context when investigating product signals.
Lot and batch information can help teams assess the scope and distribution of a potential issue. MDARIX connects lot context with product, manufacturing, supplier, and post-market records to support structured investigation and impact review.
Change Intelligence
Understand the product impact of every change.
Changes to design, components, suppliers, processes, labeling, or software can affect requirements, risks, evidence, and products in the field. MDARIX helps teams connect change proposals to those relationships so impact assessments are supported by product context.
Post-Market Investigation
Turn post-market information into connected product insight.
Post-market surveillance brings together complaints, adverse events, service information, returns, trends, and other field evidence. MDARIX connects this information to products, versions, lots, risks, investigations, and decisions so teams can review emerging signals in context.
Signal Intelligence
Catch a rising trend before the next lot ships.
A count rule and a trend check compare each product version's last 30 days with its own history, counted per unit in the field. A signal opens a case in one click with every complaint attached. Service, return and adverse-event feeds come later.
Evidence Intelligence
Make lifecycle evidence easier to find, connect, and evaluate.
Evidence is most useful when reviewers can see the product question, risk, investigation, or decision it supports. MDARIX preserves source, version, date, provenance, contradictions, limitations, and missing links across the lifecycle.
CAPA Intelligence
Prove that each corrective action worked.
A signed decision opens its CAPA, and MDARIX shows which CAPAs were closed without an effectiveness check, which checks are overdue and which have none planned. The full CAPA workflow stays in your QMS.
Product roadmap
Current capabilities and the broader lifecycle direction.
Future roadmap areas are informational and do not represent available workflows or committed release dates.
Available
Current capabilities
Products, versions and lots, temporal context, the second look at closed complaints, reporting clocks, signals and trend checks, investigations with evidence, hypotheses and open questions, signed decisions, CAPA effectiveness checks, risk-file input, the inspector summary, and the audit trail.
Strategy, requirements, design controls, regulatory, clinical, manufacturing operations, field actions and recalls, continuous monitoring, and retirement remain roadmap areas. AI assistance is switched on in a pilot once it is validated.
Future
Where the lifecycle vision goes next.
Planned as part of the broader MDARIX Medical Device Product Lifecycle Intelligence platform. This section is informational and does not represent available functionality.
FutureProduct Strategy
Turn market and patient needs into a governed product direction.
Frame the intended use, target users, clinical problem, market need, business goals, and regulatory pathway before detailed design work begins.
FutureUser / Clinical Need
Define the clinical need and the outcome the device must support.
Connect user needs, patient populations, care settings, clinical risks, and measurable outcomes so product requirements begin with a clear clinical purpose.
FutureProduct Requirements
Translate user needs into traceable product requirements.
Establish functional, safety, performance, usability, software, security, and regulatory requirements with ownership, rationale, and verification intent.
FutureDesign & Development
Manage design decisions with evidence attached to every requirement.
Coordinate design outputs, interfaces, risk controls, configuration decisions, and revisions while preserving traceability from requirement to implementation.
FutureDesign Controls
Make design controls visible from planning through release.
Organize design inputs, outputs, reviews, verification, validation, change control, and approval evidence into a reviewable design history.
FutureVerification & Validation
Show that the design meets its specified requirements.
Bring test protocols, results, deviations, failures, corrective actions, and approval records together so verification status is inspectable and complete.
FutureClinical Intelligence
Connect clinical evidence to product decisions.
Maintain the relationship between clinical evaluation, intended use, benefit-risk reasoning, usability evidence, and the product configuration under review.
FutureRegulatory Intelligence
Prepare a traceable regulatory evidence story.
Draft regulatory narratives from the evidence of the exact product version, with every statement citing its source. MDARIX drafts for your team to review and approve; it does not submit anything to a regulator.
FutureManufacturing Intelligence
Connect released design intent to manufacturing reality.
Relate manufacturing processes, suppliers, components, lots, deviations, inspections, and release records back to the approved product configuration.
FutureField Action / Recall Intelligence
Coordinate field action decisions with complete product scope.
Identify affected versions, lots, markets, customers, risk rationale, communications, execution status, and evidence for a controlled field action.
FutureContinuous Monitoring
Continuously watch product performance and evidence quality.
Track trends, thresholds, open unknowns, supplier performance, complaint patterns, and changes that may alter the product risk picture.
FutureProduct Retirement
Retire products with traceability and accountability.
Preserve the final configuration, support obligations, residual risks, records, customer impact, and regulatory responsibilities through product retirement.
Design partners
Bring one real investigation. See the whole story in one place.
Start with exports from your quality, product and supplier systems. Your systems of record stay where they are.