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Design Control features inside Matrix Req

Matrix Req uses an item-based approach to easily manage all your design elements in a database with a unique identifier and link them to establish end-to-end traceability to ensure compliance and safe design.

Matrix Requirements
The challenge
Our solution

Design control is hard to scale without the right foundation

One platform to connect, trace, and control every design decision

  • Broken traceability

  • Links between requirements, design outputs, and tests are manually maintained and easily lost.

  • Implement your design control strategy your way

  • Configure the design categories, item types, and traceability rules that match your regulatory and development approach.

  • Slow impact analysis

  • Identifying the full scope of a change requires searching across multiple documents and tools.

  • See the full impact of any change in seconds

  • Not days with end-to-end traceability across requirements, risks, and tests.

  • Compliance gaps

  • Audit readiness is a reactive, time-intensive exercise rather than an always-on capability.

  • Stay audit-ready at all times

  • With automatically timestamped records, change history, and approval workflows.

  • Fragmented development

  • Parallel workstreams create conflicting versions with no clear merge path.

  • Scale across products and teams

  • Through branching, merging, and project composition features built for complex device portfolios.

    The challenge

    Design control is hard to scale without the right foundation

  • Broken traceability

  • Links between requirements, design outputs, and tests are manually maintained and easily lost.

  • Slow impact analysis

  • Identifying the full scope of a change requires searching across multiple documents and tools.

  • Compliance gaps

  • Audit readiness is a reactive, time-intensive exercise rather than an always-on capability.

  • Fragmented development

  • Parallel workstreams create conflicting versions with no clear merge path.

    Our solution

    One platform to connect, trace, and control every design decision

  • Implement your design control strategy your way

  • Configure the design categories, item types, and traceability rules that match your regulatory and development approach.

  • See the full impact of any change in seconds

  • Not days with end-to-end traceability across requirements, risks, and tests.

  • Stay audit-ready at all times

  • With automatically timestamped records, change history, and approval workflows.

  • Scale across products and teams

  • Through branching, merging, and project composition features built for complex device portfolios.

    Core Features

    Purpose-built tools to manage every aspect of your medical device design process.

    Establish, Maintain and Manage TraceabilityLink design items across categories to build a structured design tree. Instantly spot traceability that is broken, missing, or outdated.
    • Usability Engineering: Integrate human factors and usability testing into your process.

    • Global Regulatory Coverage: Support FDA, MDR, and other regional requirements.

    • Connectivity Support: Manage requirements and risks related to Bluetooth, mobile apps, and cloud.

    Impact AnalysisSee the full impact of any change instantly.
    • End-to-end Traceability: Identify affected requirements, risks, and tests in real time.

    • Integrated Risk Assessment: Evaluate consequences on device safety and performance.

    • Change Management: Every change reviewed, documented, and approved.

    Create New Designs from Existing OnesReuse existing projects to accelerate development of new products or variants.
    • Master Project Sync: Bring items from a master project and keep them updated.

    • Flexible Copying: Copy and adapt content independently, without synchronization.

    • Customizable Output: Render content to fit the needs of each project.

    Manage Verification and Validation ActivitiesCreate and execute test protocols and test cases directly traceable to your requirements. Every test automatically generates a timestamped result record, keeping your design control audit-ready at all times.
    Branch and Merge Development ProjectsRun parallel workstreams without destabilizing your main project.
    • Independent Branching: Isolate changes for experimentation without risk.

    • Flexible Merging: Merge changes back with built-in conflict resolution.

    • Full Audit Trail: Track all changes for traceability and version control.

    Accelerate Development with AI-Powered RequirementsGenerate compliant requirements and test cases from your product data — in minutes.
    • Auto-Generation: Produce clear requirements and matching test cases instantly.

    • Better Coverage: Improve quality and reduce errors across your documentation.

    • Human-in-the-Loop: Stay in control with validation at every step.

    Hear from our customers

    With Matrix Req, we avoid all the challenges of using manual or custom-developed tools. Instead, we get a purpose-built solution that’s designed by medical device experts, enabling much faster ISO 13485 compliance.”

    François Audéon, Chief Technology Officer

    Matrix One is trusted by 500+ Life Sciences & Medical Device Companies