Prototyping is expensive. But creative construction and use of prototypes can dramatically improve the development process and save the development team a significant amount of time and money.
Ask the Expert: Silicone Tubing
This column discusses two critical requirements involving silicone tubing for medical device applications.
Accelerating Device Development Against Current Product Development, Regulatory Landscape
“If you are doing a wound care dressing, what is unique about the product, what are you doing differently than what is already in the market, what is it intended to be used for, who is using it, and where is it being used… All of these pieces of information help you decide how to proceed.” – Jeff Kaminski , President of MBK Tape Solutions. Excerpts from an interview.
Recognizing the Value of PLM in Health Sciences
How stakeholders in a global value chain can create an innovation environment that leverages product lifecycle management to drive today’s most important health sciences business initiatives.
Executives Offer Prospects for Med-Tech Business Model
In order to compete globally, companies must be proactive in their business plans and anticipate the challenges they may face, concur three med-tech executives.
Interview: Device Design and Development in the New Environment
There is a pressure on medical device product development teams to come to terms with new types of users, environments, distribution and sales models as opposed to more traditional scenarios of device use and sale, says ide’s Richard Sokolov.
When developing highly complex medical devices, the mountain of “interesting” ideas that result from traditional brainstorming all too often buckles under technical scrutiny. A more efficient and effective way to generate and refine ideas that are technically viable is needed.
Process Control… RFID has it Under Control
Data reporting can be a very tedious process for medical device manufacturers. The functionality of the device needs to be spot-on for it to be considered viable in the medical community. Because there is little to no room for error in this process, medical devices must help decrease error prone manufacturing activities, and in many cases also help companies meet the desired Six Sigma goal for process control.
Medical Technology To Go
Solutions from the field of micro system engineering help to make faster, more flexible and smarter medical devices. The ambitious goal of the developers is to sustainably enhance the quality of patients’ lives through more mobility, faster test results on location, checking vital signs and blood values or through innovative therapy systems for the chronically ill.
Top Ten Tips + 1 for Medical Device Outsourcing
Follow these eleven tips when outsourcing to your vendors. They will save you heartache, frustration, and money.
