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

Miniature Stepper Motors
MicroMo's 2-phase miniature stepper motors are constructed with two different technologies. The AM series motors are constructed with a patented technology allowing for maximum power in a small package
New Product Development for Silicone Medical Devices and Assemblies

ProMed’s Rapid Prototype Department and Technical Center allows them to focus on developing new silicone-based medical devices and assemblies quickly and efficiently. Prototyping gives their customers engineering samples to get a feel for what’s been designed before production, and their technical center makes prototypes that are or can be fully validated.

Medical Device Design Services: PTI Design

PTI has been assisting medical device companies with product design and development for over 35 years. Their design and development studio combines state-of-the-art technology with experience in bringing medical devices to market in order to deliver the most progressive and innovative designs.

Engineering And Design Services

KMC Systems offers decades of experience in solving complex medical engineering and design challenges, and in considering innovative, highly-automated solutions for the development of full-system instrumentation. KMC Systems engineers work collaboratively with customers to achieve optimal interdisciplinary solutions to laboratory automation challenges, Design for Manufacturability and Serviceability (DFM and DFS) challenges, and medical device verification and validation.

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.

Avalanche Photodiodes

An Avalanche Photodiode (APD) provides higher sensitivity than a standard photodiode. It is ideal for extreme low-level light (LLL) detection and photon counting. Offered in Silicon or InGaAs materials, these devices provide detectivity from 400 nm - 1100 nm. Multiple configurations are available to provide a wide range of sensitivity and speed options.

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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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