Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Siemens PLM Software have entered into an agreement for Teamcentre for Medical Devices, a fully-integrated solution for medical device industry.

"Teamcentre is an innovative solution that caters to the needs of the growing global medical devices market. Teamcentre encapsulates predefined compliance needs of the industry thus making it easy and reliable to use," TCS VP (Engineering Services) Rengu Ayyaswamy said in a release.

Teamcentre would look to provide end-to-end management of the medical devices industry's product lifecycle. It would enable companies to fully trace all activities from concept to retirement by automatically linking compliance requirements with engineering and specification data, it said.

The solution combines compliance management, traceability and reporting capabilities to help medical devices manufacturers address quality and regulatory requirements, increasing competition and demanding time-to-market pressures, it added.