ISO 13485:2016 Consulting
ISO 13485:2016 Consulting for Medical Device Manufacturers
Independent ISO 13485 Consultants
MDRcert builds and remediates quality management systems to ISO 13485:2016 for medical device and IVD manufacturers. We are consultants, not a certification body, and we do not issue certificates. We prepare your system and your people for the auditor who does.
The standard is not optional paperwork. MDR Article 10(9) obliges every manufacturer to operate a quality management system, and EN ISO 13485:2016 is the harmonised route to demonstrating it. Your Notified Body audits that system before it looks at any technical file.
Every engagement starts with a clause-by-clause gap assessment against the eight sections of the standard, weighted by what auditors actually raise findings on: design controls under 7.3, purchasing controls under 7.4, and CAPA under 8.5.2.
A QMS Your Team Will Actually Use
Most failed systems are not non-compliant on paper. They are unusable in practice, so the records auditors ask for were never generated. A procedure nobody follows is worse than no procedure, because the gap between the written system and the real one becomes the finding.
We size the system to your organisation. A ten-person manufacturer does not need the document hierarchy of a multinational, and ISO 13485 does not require one. Clause 4.2.1 lets you scale documentation to the size of the organisation and the complexity of the product.
The output is a working system: a quality manual, procedures your team can execute, records that build themselves from normal work, and an internal audit programme under 8.2.4 that surfaces problems before the certification body does.
Assess
Gap Assessment and Current-State Evaluation
Plan
QMS Architecture and Documentation Strategy
Build
Procedure Deployment, Training and Evidence Build
Submit
Internal Audit, CAPA and Management Review Readiness
Maintain
Certification Audit Support and Stabilisation
What teams need before ISO 13485 certification
Certification bodies do not fail companies for missing documents. They fail them for systems with no evidence of use: an internal audit programme that never ran, a management review with no records, a CAPA log with entries that were opened and never closed.
We build in the order that produces evidence earliest. Design controls and purchasing controls come first because they generate records continuously, then the measurement and improvement processes under clause 8 that auditors sample hardest. The ISO 14971 risk management file is integrated rather than bolted on, because clause 7.1 requires risk management across product realisation.
If your certification is a step towards CE marking rather than an end in itself, sequence matters. Our MDR consulting and registration strategy services align the QMS timeline with the conformity assessment you are heading for.
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Frequently Asked Questions About ISO 13485 Consulting
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