The Presenters

After ten years with PLM – What is the next step?

Claes-Göran Andersson, Mölnlycke Health Care

Search-based applications for life sciences and medtech

Jerome Laredo, Director UK, Benelux and Nordic Exelead

Developing Brekthrough Experiences for the Life Sciences industry

Jean Colombel, Vice President Life Sciences Industry, Dassault Systèmes

Round Table – Life Sciences

Participants from organizations such as GE Healthcare, Mölnlycke Healthcare, Elekta, Oticon, are invited. Moderator: Petter Sahlin, Technia Life Science Team

Break-out Session: Life Sciences

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This well-attended and highly specialized session brought together experts from Mölnlycke Health Care, Exalead, and Dassault Systèmes to discuss PLM in the Life Science industry. Participants included representatives from GE Healthcare, Elekta, and Oticon. The moderator was Petter Sahlin.

Photo: Arne Hyckenberg

A round table discussion focused on materials compliance. New regulations in Europe will come into effect in January 2012 that will have global consequences. The idea is for medical device manufacturers to comply with the new regulations regarding the use of hazardous materials, and how close to the body they are actually used.

This capability is built into Enovia although most attendees are not yet using it. Claes-Göran Andersson from Mölnlycke Healthcare changed the discussion to waste management, for which there is not yet a Technia solution.

“It is certainly on the road map,” said Petter Sahlin, explaining how Technia will develop such a product in the future.

The presentation by Exalead’s Jerome Laredo, Director of the UK, Benelux and the Nordics, touched on the ability of search system Exalead to rapidly merge information from blogs, data bases, CRP systems, email, Internet and other sources to create an instant 360 degree status report about a patient or drug, for example.

And then Dassault Systèmes’ Marc Truffault presented a visionary picture of where Dassault Systèmes is today in the Life Science industry, and where it wants to be in the next ten years.