Medical Device Design & Development

INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES

Reimagining HACCP And Other Process Flow Risk Analysis Methods Using Relational Risk Analysis

Combining relational risk analysis (ReRA) modeling strategies with hazard analysis and critical control point (HACCP) and other process flow risk analysis methods makes them more efficient.

Maximizing The Value Of An Internal Audit Program In Pharmaceutical Quality Operations

A shrinking FDA and rising supply pressures demand stronger risk management and smarter internal audits. Here’s how pharma can truly “see things as they really are.”

Building World-Class Global Quality Teams That Break Down Silos

Over 25 years leading global quality and regulatory organizations, I've learned that the most difficult challenges aren't regulatory or technical; they're organizational and cultural. 

Mastering Cultural Intelligence In Global Quality And Regulatory Leadership

The medical device industry has gone global, but most quality and regulatory leaders still operate with regional mindsets. Leaders who master cultural intelligence build quality systems that leverage diversity as competitive advantage.

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WHITE PAPERS & CASE STUDIES

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.

Custom Orthodontic Aligner Manufacturer Ensures Compliance With Tulip

A pioneering orthodontic startup is transforming custom aligner production using 3D printing and software to cut time and costs in half while scaling rapidly to ensure quality and compliance.

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DESIGN COMPONENTS & SERVICES

Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) for Additive Manufacturing
Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) for Additive Manufacturing

In direct metal laser sintering, a laser draws onto the surface of atomized powder to build production-quality metal parts. The process produces metal parts with the same speed as plastic parts, and it can transition into metal injection molding.

Image Sensor
High-resolution imaging capabilities combined with network communications make the Series 600 SmartImage Sensor a suited smart factory tool
Dovetail Connectors

Smith’s line of dovetail connectors have been designed to overcome interconnection complications encountered when connecting one element to another. Because of their configurable nature, design engineers can position the spring contact probes in whichever pattern will suit their medical device’s needs.

2 W Xenon Flash Lamp Modules (L12336 Series)

These new xenon flash lamp modules integrate a 2 W xenon flash lamp, power supply, and trigger socket into a compact cube package, the smallest in its class. Other features include high stability, long lifetime, and broad emission range from UV to NIR. The L12336 series lamp modules are suitable for integration into portable instruments used in spectroscopy, blood analysis, and environmental monitoring.

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.

Rapid Tooling And Medical Device Prototyping
Rapid Tooling And Medical Device Prototyping

Whether you need a few pieces or a few thousand, Donatelle's highly specialized team can produce parts with near-production tolerances in as little as a few days. As part of their integrated services, they work closely with your design team to select the best polymers and metals to bring accuracy and consistency to your molded components. You can also rely on their expertise with hundreds of exotic materials, including high-temperature, implantable-grade and silicone.

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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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