Insights: Cogmedix thrives through specialization
Cogmedix, Inc., is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Westborough-based Coghlin Companies, focused on medical devices. The company manufactures, services and provides turnkey designs for medical and dental devices to OEMs. Matt Giza, executive vice president and general manager, spoke about recruiting, quality control and international operations.
How do you stay competitive?
We try to stay ahead of the competition through continued focus on our market differentiation -- providing manufacturing services for complex electro-mechanical medical devices with a specialty niche in laser based medical devices -- while maintaining the highest degree of compliance and the founding principles of Coghlin Companies -- flexibility, integrity and trust -- with all of our customers. Customer satisfaction is a key ingredient to our business, and we are 100-percent referable.
How do you recruit?
We recruit through traditional advertising, social media, staffing agencies, in-house recruiting and incentive programs offered to our caring associate base. Positions change regularly, but we are currently seeking positions in quality engineering, inspection, supply chain and assembly.
How do you ensure quality?
We ensure quality through rigorous adherence to our quality system, which is ISO 13485 certified and compliant to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration Quality System Regulation, 21 CFR 820. This includes driving a process-based organization and a robust, competency-based training program for every associate. We also drive custom component inspection processes throughout our supply chain to find issues at the source, perform in-process quality inspections, and perform various in process and final acceptance testing on every medical device we build to ensure it meets our customers’ requirements.
Describe your international operations.
We do not operate international facilities, but we do have a global supplier base to purchase components from outside the U.S. We also maintain alliances to transition certain products to low cost regions, but only when it makes sense. Our focus on complex devices generally means that the material content is the driving cost contributor, not labor. Since we can procure certain components worldwide, and labor is a lower part of the overall cost, we can continue to build very successfully right here in Worcester with the highly skilled resources we need.
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