Protect your R&D focus and field margins with expert Serviceability Architecture.

Scale your MedTech Hardware
without the R&D distraction.

We conduct forensic design audits, write your ISO 13485 service manuals, and build your third-party repair networks. Protect your hardware margins and keep your R&D team focused on innovation.

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The Cost of the Service Gap

Scaling a medical device without a service strategy is a regulatory and financial liability.

R&D Brain Drain

Your most expensive engineers are stuck acting as field support instead of developing your next-generation product.

Regulatory Risk

Field repairs executed without ISO 13485 compliance create massive gaps in your QMS and audit trail.

Warranty Burn

High "No Fault Found" returns and inefficient repair loops erode your hardware margins during commercial scale-up.

Serviceability Engineering as a Service

A modular framework to protect your R&D team and scale your support.

PRE-LAUNCH | ISO 13485:7.5.1

Service Design Review (SDR)

Ensure your "Design Transfer" includes Serviceability. We perform forensic teardowns to identify maintenance risks and validate repair access before you freeze the design.

What We Deliver:

  • Risk Assessment: Component-level failure risk ranking.
  • Accessibility Analysis: Time-to-repair optimization.
  • The "Red Flag" Report: Critical changes needed before tooling freeze.
Full SDR Briefing
DOCUMENTATION | ISO 13485:7.5

Technical Authoring

Stop relying on tribal R&D knowledge. We convert complex mechanical assemblies into validated, highly visual work instructions and compliance frameworks for your field engineers.

What We Deliver:

  • Service Readiness Frameworks: The baseline QMS structure, including the core Service Manual architecture and PPM schedules.
  • FRU Work Instructions: Highly visual replacement guides for standard components.
  • Complex Overhaul Procedures: Advanced instructions requiring proprietary jigs or software calibration.
  • Validation Protocols: Site Readiness and IQ/OQ templates.
Full Authoring Briefing
ROLLOUT | ISO 13485:7.5.3

Service Network Architecture

Scale without headcount. We build the "Turnkey" support package that allows you to hand over support to distributors or 3rd parties.

What We Deliver:

  • Vendor Qualification: Auditing and certifying third-party repair facilities.
  • Curriculum Design: Developing rigorous, measurable training programs.
  • On-Site Certification: Delivering technical training and competency assessments.
Full SNA Briefing
SUSTAINING | ISO 13485:8.2.1

Field Reliability Analysis (FRA)

Turn "No Fault Found" returns into compliant Post-Market Surveillance evidence. We perform forensic physical root cause analysis to protect margins and provide closed-loop data for your ISO 14971 Risk Management files.

What We Deliver:

  • Physical Root Cause Analysis: Forensic teardown and replication of field failures.
  • CAPA Engineering Data: Translating failure data into structured fixes for R&D.
  • Sustaining Support: Ongoing R&D technical triage and QMS review.
Full FRA Briefing

Bridge the Gap Between Lab & Field.

Founded by Dan Howes (ex-Bio-Rad, Thermo Fisher, RAF), Schema Technical brings the rigour of aerospace logistics to MedTech.

Having led the support architecture for complex systems like the Bio-Rad Genesis, we know exactly what happens when R&D prototypes hit the real world. A brilliant clinical device will fail commercially if the service infrastructure isn't built to match the engineering quality.

Embedded within the Cambridge, Norwich, and London MedTech hubs, we provide fractional service architecture to scaling device manufacturers nationwide and internationally.

We are not generalist management consultants. We are Service Architects. We operate across the entire hardware lifecycle: conducting forensic pre-freeze design audits to remove repair bottlenecks, building ISO 13485 compliant field infrastructures, and performing physical root cause analysis on post-market failures. We ensure your service operations are as robust as your clinical data, allowing your R&D engineers to focus on the next product while we protect your margins in the field.

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We scope by mechanical complexity, not open-ended day rates. Fixed fees ensure ISO 13485 compliance is thoroughly funded without scope bleed.

Pre-Freeze Audit (SDR)

From £2,500
Fixed fee based on hardware complexity
  • Max 3 to 5-day forensic teardown
  • Strictly bounded project scope
  • Tier 1 (Standard) to Tier 3 (Robotics/Optics)
  • Actionable engineering interventions
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Technical Authoring

From £350
Per FRU Work Instruction
  • Service Readiness Frameworks (From £3,500)
  • Highly visual replacement guides
  • Complex Overhaul Procedures (From £850)
  • Auditor-ready ISO 13485 formatting
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Service Network (SNA)

From £1,500
Per Project Phase
  • Phase 0: Tech Discovery (Waived if SDR completed)
  • Phase 1: Vendor Qualification (£2,500)
  • Phase 2: Curriculum Design (£1,500)
  • Phase 3: On-Site Training (From £4,800)
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Reliability
(FRA)

From £4,500
Or £1,500/mo Retainer
  • Physical Root Cause Analysis (Max 5 days)
  • Sustaining retainer: 2 days/mo access (Min 3 mo)
  • R&D technical triage & QMS review
  • Standard out-of-scope rate: £850/day
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*All engagements are scoped via an initial discovery call to ensure alignment with your current phase of commercialisation.

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Find out if your device is ready for the field before your first customer complains.

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Direct Email:
dan@schematechnical.co.uk