Eric Larson
Eric R. Larson is a mechanical engineer with over 30 years' experience in plastics. He has helped develop products ranging from boogie boards, water basketball games and SCUBA diving equipment to disposable lighters, cell phones and handheld medical devices. Eric is owner of Art of Mass Production (AMP), an engineering consulting company based in San Diego, CA. AMP provides services to manufacturing companies in the consumer electronics, wireless, and medical device industries. Eric is also moderator of the blog site plasticsguy.com, where he writes about plastics technology and its effect on people and the planet.
ARTICLES BY ERIC LARSON
Medtech Material Selection For Performance And Feel
When designing a medical device, material selection can be difficult, especially with thousands of plastic material options available. While material properties, environmental effects, regulatory requirements, and cost almost always are considered, "feel" is often overlooked – despite its importance to user and patient satisfaction, as well as market success.
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Medical Plastics: Material Selection Based On Feel
From prioritizing material properties to establishing desired values for each property, selecting plastic materials based on feel is a complicated undertaking. To elicit the most desirable user response from the device, it can be helpful to consider the what, rather than the how.
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Medbio: Helping To Reduce Supplier Complexity In Drug Delivery Manufacturing
Medbio simplifies drug delivery manufacturing by consolidating tooling, molding, automation, assembly, packaging, and secondary operations under one trusted partner.
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10.13.26 -- New Insights For Medical Device Innovation
10/13/26 Med Device Online Newsletter
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10.11.26 -- Everyone Is Only Reading The MDR Half Of Europe's Reform
10/11/26 Med Device Online Newsletter
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The Business Case For Electronic GxP Management
Spreadsheet-based quality systems carry costs that tend to be underestimated. Electronic GxP management shifts effort from routine compliance tasks toward quality improvement and patient safety.
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The Return On Investment Of An Electronic Quality Management System
Time and cost estimates for document control, quality events, and training show where paper-based quality processes drain resources and what electronic systems could recover.
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Your Quality Team Is Already Using AI To Draft Compliance Documents
Quality teams already use general-purpose AI for deviations and submission drafts without validation. Regulators expect governance, and the gap is an undocumented process step, not unreliable output.
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Our Validation Approach
Computerized system assurance shifts most effort to the software vendor, leaving customers with a risk-based review of their own. It raises questions about which documentation still earns its place.
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Is Your QMS Holding You Back From Achieving Continuous Compliance?
A scored diagnostic places a quality system on a four-tier maturity curve across five dimensions, showing where compliance runs reactively and what moving toward continuous readiness would take.
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