I have worked in the medical device industry for the last 14 years. The last 10 years have been at Cordis which recently became part of Cardinal Health (previously part of Johnson and Johnson). I have always used Microsoft project to manage projects. Johnson and Johnson had very advanced project management awareness with a dedicated project management organization within the company. J&J also had internal training programs for project management. Cardinal Health does not seem to have the same knowledge of project management or experience in managing the types of projects that the Cordis acquistion brought to the company. However, Cordis was able to maintain a lot of the PM infrastructure post acquisition. I have been personally involved in many projects, however not as the project manager. These projects have had various degrees of success. The two main problems I have often encountered are a lack of proper project resourcing, and a poor techinical understanding early on from the people initiating the project. The lack of resources causes projects to miss deadlines and drag on. The poor understanding by the people who evaluate projects means they are often a lot more work than initially thought.