Glossary
Total Product Life Cycle database
Total Product Life Cycle database is FDA's TPLC database consolidating device information across a product's life span — from premarket review through adverse events and recalls; FDA Medical Devices Portal records what it publishes: "database index (510(k), PMA, GUDID, MAUDE, TPLC, registration and listing)". Datadory's catalog of 1,744 datasets documents it directly in FDA Medical Devices Portal.
What is Total Product Life Cycle database?
FDA's TPLC database consolidating device information across a product's life span — from premarket review through adverse events and recalls.
It is one of roughly two dozen enumerated device databases reachable from the FDA Medical Devices Portal navigation hub.
In this catalog it appears concretely: - FDA Medical Devices Portal (what it publishes) — "database index (510(k), PMA, GUDID, MAUDE, TPLC, registration and listing)".
Why does Total Product Life Cycle database matter when choosing a dataset?
A label on a listing is not a deliverable. Teams that license on the strength of a product-name match routinely find the shipped files cover a narrower slice than they assumed, and backfilling history afterwards costs more than the license ever did.
The failure mode is concrete: the label appears in a listing, the delivered files tell a different story, and the gap surfaces mid-project when fixing it is most expensive.
You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs are free to access, and FDA Medical Devices Portal lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.
How do you evaluate Total Product Life Cycle database in a data source?
Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:
- Read FDA Medical Devices Portal's record on what it publishes — "database index (510(k), PMA, GUDID, MAUDE, TPLC, registration and listing)" — then confirm the delivered artifact matches before you license anything.
- Pin down update cadence in writing. Across this catalog, 22.6% of 1,744 datasets refresh daily and 64 still arrive only through a manual request form, so ask exactly how fresh each release is.
- Check whether definitions are verified at all. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), and any source you license should meet that bar.
- Price the delivery route before the license. In this catalog bulk download is the most common access method (725 datasets) ahead of official APIs (574), and 379 sources still require scraping — a maintenance cost that lands on you, not the vendor.
See the term applied to real records: health-care-equipment data, health-care-supplies data.
Related terms
Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - 510k premarket notification - device registration and listing - MAUDE adverse event reporting
Frequently asked questions
What is an example of Total Product Life Cycle database?
FDA Medical Devices Portal is the clearest example in this catalog. Its record on what it publishes reads: "database index (510(k), PMA, GUDID, MAUDE, TPLC, registration and listing)". Across all 1,744 datasets Datadory averages a quality score of 7.81 out of 10, so a named example can be weighed rather than trusted blindly.
Is data described as "Total Product Life Cycle database" free to use?
Treat access and permission separately. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets in this catalog are free to access, but 235 are freemium and 61 are paid outright, so confirm both the price and the license on the exact distribution before building on it.
Datasets containing this field
Datasets containing Total Product Life Cycle database
6 datasets carry total product life cycle database in the catalog. Open one, count the fields, judge for yourself.
openFDA Device Adverse Events (MAUDE) API
mdr_report_key · event_type · date_of_event …+16 more
openFDA Device Registration & Listing API Data
registration.registration_number · registration.fei_number · registration.status_code …+13 more
WHO Medical Devices – Definitions and Policy Repository
IndicatorCode · IndicatorName · SpatialDim …+6 more
ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 - Studies Database
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