Medical device developers use realistic simulation solutions from SIMULIA to accelerate the overall product innovation process, reducing development costs, and improving patient safety and product quality. In addition, SIMULIA provides medical device companies with the ability to more efficiently evaluate design alternatives, accelerate long-term stress life testing to predict product reliability, collaborate on projects and leverage computing resources for more efficient design analysis. Check out the eBook below!
Read More →Video: Plasma Surface Treatment for Better and Lower Cost Cleaning & Bonding
Active microfluidic devices, sensors and implantable devices often require a specific binding property or binding capacity in order to change reactions with an environment or biological fluid The most common systems utilize specific functional groups such as amine, hydroxyl, or carboxyl for conjugation to protein, molecule, integrin, or adhesive component. Gas plasma begins by removing organic surface contaminants by reducing them to volatile compounds. The nascent surface is subsequently reacted to process specific plasma chemistry. Plasmatreat’s advanced plasma chambers, low pressure/batch or atmospheric pressure/inline are versatile tools that are capable of designing controlled interfaces on a variety of materials. This includes streamlining approaches where conventional multi-step wet chemistries are employed. Plasma gives the design engineer the freedom to separate mechanical, optical, and fabrication techniques from the surface requirements. Freedom of choice usually results in significant cost savings. With plasma surface treatment, the choices and capabilities are expansive. Plasma surface treatment is not one process, but an entire chemistry toolbox. Check out the Video below!
Read More →Enabling the Use of Engineered Plastics in Medical Device Manufacturing
Plasma is a versatile tool that is capable of designing controlled interfaces on a variety of materials used in medical device manufacturing. This includes replacing conventional multistep wet chemistries. Plasma gives the medical device designer freedom to separate mechanical, optical, and fabrication techniques from the surface requirements that often require compromises in cost and performance. Check out the PlasmaTreat whitepaper below for insights on enabling the use of engineered plastics in medical device manufacturing.
Read More →eBook: Design Thinking with Terumo BCT
Generis Group is honored to have Palani Palaniappan, EVP, Innovation and Development at Terumo BCT join the speaker faculty at the upcoming American Medical Device Summit 2016. With the summit right around the corner, we took the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Palaniappan to gather his insights and discuss the importance of ‘Design Thinking’ in the journey from concept to commercialization. Check out the eBook!
Read More →eBook: How Quality is Your System?
With the American Medical Device Summit 2016 right around the corner we wanted to take some time to sit down with Clarkston Consulting to gather their insights on quality system management. Clarkston Consulting are specialists in management, operations, and implementation consulting services for life sciences and consumer products companies. To help guide medical device developers on their quality journey we asked Clarkston to adress: What to Consider in your Quality System Lifecycle Quality Systems Planning and Priorities What Are the Challenges and How Can You Overcome Them? The Benefits of the Lifecycle Approach Quality Acceleration and Overwatch Check out the eBook below!
Read More →Whitepaper: Risk Management for Modern Medical Device Makers
Medical device developers face an array of regulatory, compliance, quality and risk challenges. Throughout the past couple of months we have examined these different challenges and various solutions to overcome them. In today’s post we wanted to share the Jama Software whitepaper below which discusses methods to resolve the challenges of connectivity, competition and compliance for medical device developers. Check out the Whitepaper
Read More →Product Cost Management: What does your Software do for you?
Computer-aided design (CAD) is an industrial art that results in lower product development costs and greatly shortened design cycles. In today’s post we take a closer look aPriori‘s software capabilities to gain a fuller understanding of how 3D CAD Modeling can help developers: Launch new products at or below target cost Avoid overpaying for outsourced parts Maximize cost savings of re-design work Increase the accuracy and speed of RFQ responses aPriori software and services generate hard-dollar product cost savings for discrete manufacturing organizations. Using aPriori’s real-time product cost assessments, employees in sourcing, manufacturing and design engineering make more-informed decisions that drive costs out of products pre- and post-production. Check out the video below to learn How aPriori’s product cost management software can rapidly generate detailed cost estimates using any 3D solid CAD model as the primary input. Costs can be generated for a wide array of manufacturing processes, such as: Sheetmetal Fabrication, Plastic Injection Molding, Casting, Machining, Forging, Powdered Metal, Gear Making, etc. Find out more from aPriori by joining the discussion at the American Aerospace & Defense Summit on December 6-7, 2016, in Scottsdale, AZ!
Read More →Wait, is that Clean?
Surface preparation is a critical manufacturing process that enables sealing, bonding, painting, coating, printing and cleaning. By utilizing appropriate surface preparation processes medical device manufacturers can speed production, ensure product safety, and decrease the likelihood of recalls. Despite the critical nature of this process the majority of manufacturers are still relying upon outdated surface evaluation methods such as dyne and water break. These current methods lack precision, allow for subjective interpretation, and are often destructive. Check out the BTG Labs infographic below to explore the strengths and weaknesses of different surface preparation methods. surface-preparation-for-manufacturers-who-bond-seal-coat-paint-clean-or-print Hear more from BTG Labs by joining the discussion at the American Medical Device Summit on October 5-6 in Chicago. Be sure to stop by Booth #21!!
Read More →An Agile Alternative to Document-Centric Methods for Requirements Management
The American Medical Device Summit is less than one month away! The summit will draw on the knowledge of over 40 industry leaders to explore the challenges and opportunities in product development, quality management, speed to commercialization, and regulatory harmonization. One of the companies helping developers tackle the challenges in product development and compliance is Jama Software. Jama Software has developed a more agile alternative to document-centric methods for requirements management, creating the optimal environment for defining problem statements, validating cross-functional input and ensuring that what is delivered at each phase of is what was intended. Check out the Demo Video below to find out how on-boarding this software can help developers navigate complex development cycles and build great products by: Removing the overhead of requirements reviews. Shortening the time between milestones. Mitigating risk and maintaining traceability evidence. Visualizing connections between regulations, requirements and test cases. for a more in-depth look at the software, try the software yourself by signing up for the Jama Software Free Trial!
Read More →A Vision for Enterprise Product Cost Management
Managing costs throughout the product life cycle is critical to a company’s long term viability and profitability. aPriori, an organization specializing in cost management software, released the video below to highlight the end-to-end cost management techniques that enable employees in sourcing, manufacturing and design engineering to make more-informed decisions and drive costs out of products pre- and post-production. Check out the video to gain a holistic vision of Enterprise Cost Management.
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