Medical Device Design & Development

INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES

A Case Study: Control Strategies For A Multi-Dose Pen Injector

A case study highlighting the importance of drug and device team alignment on control strategy, defining what to control and which controls can and should be implemented.

Control Strategies For Injectable Drug Delivery Combination Products

Defining combination product CQAs across drug and device enables an end-to-end control strategy that improves product quality from the start of development.

From Principles To Practice: Building Quality Into Generative AI-Assisted Pharma Operations

Learn what regulators are already asking about AI, what quality must mean in this new context, and how organizations can begin building the governance infrastructure.

Why Medtech Should Retire The "One-Size-Fits-All" Mindset

A systemic bias in medtech design continues: a failure to account for female-specific data. Teams often resort to a dangerous shortcut: scaling down men's measurements. But we must design for the real-world diversity of human physiology for the future of care.

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WHITE PAPERS & CASE STUDIES

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    Color Consistency In UHMWPE Medical Textiles

    Color consistency improves surgical visibility, differentiation, and workflow efficiency, requiring medical textiles that deliver strength, compliance, and reliable quality in every color.

Deterministic Nondestructive Seal Integrity Testing

Deterministic, non-destructive seal integrity testing delivers validated, quantitative results. Learn why this method outperforms traditional approaches in ensuring patient safety and product quality.

Choosing The Right PCD Configuration For Reliable Sterility Assurance

Accurate PCD configuration ensures sterility assurance. Learn how to align validation strategies with ISO standards, optimize cycle efficiency, and select the right BI format for EO sterilization success.

Life Sciences Corporation Implements eLogbooks Across 15 Sites

New regulations challenged how surgical kits were tracked and processed across 15 U.S. sites. Discover how one team balanced compliance and efficiency to keep life-saving procedures on schedule.

Implementing A Next-Gen MES At A Fraction Of The Cost

Discover how a top medical device manufacturer accelerated product launch by digitizing assembly processes, streamlining training, and ensuring compliance.

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DESIGN COMPONENTS & SERVICES

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MPC Series: Medical-Grade Couplings

MPC Series couplings add ease of use and security to your most critical fluid handling applications. Choose from a full line of connectors and configurations, including pressue sealing caps and plugs in sizes to fit 1/4" and 3/8" tubing.

Miniature Connector with High Density, Signal, and Power: MiniMax™

Fischer’s MiniMaxTM series of connectors feature unmatched pin density in a miniature circular connector. Additionally, their ultra-compact size helps to solve device miniaturization challenges, and in some devices, they can reduce overall weight by more than 75%.

Process Validation Capabilities

PTI is experienced in advanced precision inspection and testing abilities that tackle a number of dimensional and functional product requirements and specifications. These validation processes support a wide range of comprehensive inspection actions including receiving final audits, first article layouts, and full AIAG PPAP and IQ, OQ, PQ Process Validation Submissions.

Solid State Amplifier for EMC Compliance Testing: 50S1G6
Solid State Amplifier for EMC Compliance Testing: 50S1G6

AR’s solid state amplifiers are often used in medical EMC compliance test efforts. The 50S1G6 is a class A solid state amplifier which provides 50 watts of output power from 0.7 to 6 GHz.

Sensors for Low Pressure Measurement in Medical Devices

First Sensor LDE series of ultra-low pressure sensors offer pressure ranges from 25 Pa (0.1 in H2O); full scale, very high offset stability and accuracy; simultaneous digital SPI bus and analog output; and high immunity against dust contamination and humidity.

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PLC Series: Couplings
The 1/4" flow PLC Series is the most popular group of couplings from Colder. Proven worldwide in thousands of applications, the PLC line offers the widest selection of sizes and configurations. PLC couplings are injection molded from acetal thermoplastic and are durable and resistant to most mild chemical solutions.
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MEDICAL DEVICE DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT

Medical device design and development is the cyclical process of creating a device for a specific task or set of tasks, and then continuously reevaluating its effectiveness and improving upon it until the device reaches obsolescence. Design and development begins with ideation and the creation of a concept that, if found to be both fiscally and clinically viable, is then designed, engineered, and prototyped. This preclinical period includes bench testing — accomplished through simulated use of the product — and animal testing, along with any necessary redesign work.

Throughout the process, the proposed medical device, and the process by which it will be manufactured, is examined for flaws that may negatively impact the device’s safety, market viability, regulatory acceptance, customer satisfaction, usability, or profitability. Any shortcomings are corrected, and the improvements applied to the final design. Due to the wireless connectivity capabilities of many modern medical devices, cybersecurity and interoperability also must be incorporated into the design. Clinical testing is conducted, using human subjects, to further expose flaws and confirm product strengths. Once both the product design and the manufacturing process have been validated and approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), production and commercialization of a device may begin.

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