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I head up the standards committee at our company, so for what it's worth, here's my advice: 1) survey each functional area as to the standards they use 2) make an applicable ( to your product/company) subset list of the EU Harmonized, US FDA Concensus, and Health Canada Recognized standards. This will give you a shorter list and keep you in the good graces of any Notified Body, FDA, or HC reviewer. 3) use a service such as techstreet to take your list and send you notifications when one of the standards is revised 4) create a system to review and write up a gap analyis citing the impact to your company's products (customer/patient too of course) and follow with an implemenatation plan if any actions are required such as re-testing, if nothing's required make sure you have a good system for archiving your assessments for audit purposes 5) train your organization on standards, how to use them, when to use them, drive home the point that just saying you generally comply is not good enough, you must be able to cite which subpart you have actually tested to,etc. 6) Lastly, the people in your company are responsible for knowing and using the current rev of a standard. In an audit you'd be nicked for citing an outdated rev.
Would you happen to have a gap analysis example I could use to create my own?