Taking the first step to becoming a paperless company often starts with digitizing approvals.
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Medical and safety technology specialist Dräger uses Acrobat Sign to streamline signatures and accelerate processes across its global business. As a manufacturer in a highly regulated industry, Dräger must provide extensive documentation to demonstrate that its devices meet all regulatory requirements, including the FDA guidelines. Before, this involved lengthy process times, manual steps, and high paper consumption.
"Processes must be compliant, but do not need to be complicated," says Lasse Janz, quality and IT consultant at Dräger. "Electronic signatures with Acrobat Sign enable us to do just that." The solution met critical FDA requirements and offered built-in integrations with tools such as Microsoft Power Automate and SharePoint, making it easy for Dräger to integrate it into its existing IT infrastructure.
The impact was immediate — Dräger reduced the duration of a signature process by up to 80% and now signs over 60,000 documents a year electronically rather than on paper. For example, the approval of a critical calibration certificate now takes only 3 hours, down from 24 hours on average. This measurable success in digitizing processes, including automated archiving, has enabled employees to obtain approvals within a few hours, increasing satisfaction and allowing the devices to be made available to customers faster.
The solution's seamless integration and intuitive user interface led to high employee acceptance from the start. "Open email, click button, sign. 'Was that it already?!' many asked with surprise. They are impressed that everything is so quick with Acrobat Sign," says David Wagner, application manager of automation at Dräger. Dräger continues to expand its use of Acrobat Sign, including implementing qualified electronic signatures (QES) to streamline the processing of highly sensitive, legally binding documents.
