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News Release from: ITI | Subject: New product development
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 10 April 2007
Collaboration is key to in-house award
ITI best practices for new product development have helped Hitachi Medical to capture a prestigious in-house innovation award.
Hitachi Medical Corp (HMC) has won the 2006 Hitachi Innovation Award recognising the most innovative product and process developed for the year Hitachi Medical received the award for the multi-modality console product line that will enable the company to deploy common capabilities across all medical imaging product lines
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 24 Jan 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Each year Tokyo based Hitachi recognises great achievements in technologies and products.
Rendell Hughes, ITI Sr Executive Consultant explains: "Driven by ITI's CPPD process the joint Hitachi Medical and ITI team deployed a systematic methodology to capture customer requirements that drive market growth, develop product targets, analyse and design software, deploy upfront integration and testing and validate the product with customers before the product is finished".
"Over a 36-month period, ITI's team lead HMC in the transition from a C, Unix, single developer based environment to a C++, C and Net based development environment that supports a global concurrent development with outsourcing suppliers".
"HMC achieved a remarkable reduction down to almost 60% in time to market with significantly high level of quality as a result".
Almost 60 imaging centres in North American and 140 hospitals in Japan were involved in defining product capabilities that are critical for radiologists and technicians to support diagnosis with high image quality and fast patient throughput.
Future customers evaluated the product and engineers were making final improvements 12 months before FDA approval.
Testing started on the same day that coding started to ensure that this large complex system would meet quality and performance targets when the last line of code was implemented.
This process ensures that our clients have a design and an implementation that always satisfies the customers and end users.
The console in conjunction with 1.5T closed MRI system received FDA approval in November 2005 and was shipped in July 2006, as a first product.
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