When it comes to product design, what are the most common pitfalls for businesses to avoid? And with that being said, what are the most effective design practices to ensure product safety and compliance while also making a rapid return on your investment? We sat down with the engineering experts at General Digital to learn all about mastering safety-critical product design for both long-term financial and technical sustainability. Learn more in this exclusive e-book below:
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Membrane switches first debuted in the 1980s, as low-cost and fairly low-tech user interfaces. Though many still hold this perception of them, membrane switches have advanced significantly over the last 30 years to the point where today’s applications are virtually unrecognizable from their first uses. As people have become fully accustomed to using touchscreens in their day-to-day lives, we are seeing the use of these interfaces expand into other areas, including the medical device market. Though touchscreens are slick and offer a familiar user experience, the membrane switch offers significant advantages over touchscreens, with high durability, and a more precise and pleasing user experience. In advance of the American Medical Device Summit, we spoke with Ken Boss, resident interface guru at JN White, about why membrane switches are still the ideal user interface for the medical device market.
Read More →Understanding the Critical Needs of Today’s Modern Consumer to Create Innovate Products and Packaging
Today’s consumer is more likely to snack throughout the day rather than eat three set meals. They value low-prep, buy-on-the-go products and demand new retail and vending formats that meet their wellness agenda of freshness, nutrition, and sustainability. Snacking companies are therefore spending more on product and packaging innovation to bring their brands to life and appeal to these consumers. In addition to overseeing Campbell’s R&D for soup, sauce, and beverages in its international markets, Craig Stephen Slavtcheff leads research and development for some of the world’s best-known snack brands, including Pepperidge Farm, Arnott’s, Royal Dansk, Kjeldsens, Snyder-Lance, Kettle Brand and Cape Cod, among others. To better understand what’s on the horizon in the snack market, we spoke with Slavtcheff about the critical needs of today’s modern consumer, packaging and product innovation, and how to improve the shopping experience.
Read More →How to Make a Number-One Brand Bigger and Better: Q&A with Chobani’s Chief Creative Officer, Leland Maschmeyer
Chobani, the number-one-selling brand of Greek yogurt in America, recently underwent a bold re-brand led by Leland Maschmeyer. As Chief Creative Officer of Chobani, Maschmeyer is responsible for guiding brand and product strategy, packaging, innovation pipeline, online channels, advertising, shopper marketing, and total customer experience design.His goal – to fulfill Chobani’s vision to be a food-focused wellness company. How do you make the number-one selling brand of Greek yogurt bigger and better? To assert further yogurt-market-dominance, Chobani and Maschmeyer have focused their attention on a new logo, identity, and packaging to sharpen the brand’s personality and allow more room for product line extensions. We spoke to Leland Maschmeyer about the rebrand and how investing in creativity is key to making a bigger and better brand.
Read More →Life Cycle and Durability Testing for Medical Devices
Wineman Technology are specialists in military/aerospace and provide custom systems integration, automated test systems, machinery and controls modernization, and software development. As experts in this field, Wineman Technology has decided to enter the medical device industry and transfer their skills and knowledge into this field. Wineman Technology is uniquely positioned to help life science domain experts with medical device testing, as well as building cutting-edge biomedical system test architectures and database solutions. With their strong background in systems integration, software development, and turn-key test system design, they can deliver advanced equipment more effectively and on a tighter schedule than in-house design resources, or work with your team to augment your current capabilities. Wineman Technologies’ latest ebook explores the most common challenges and mistakes in medical device testing, how to implement device testing with manufacturers while saving time and costs, and how software infrastructure influences the efficacy of medical device testing. Lastly, the ebook shares a case study that shares the results of a universal test system that Wineman Technologies created for Stryker. To access the full ebook, click here.
Read More →Flexible Circuit’s Ebook: Information and Applications for the Medical Device Market
Flexible Circuit’s ebook explores and identifies solutions to the following industry challenges: How have intelligent devices(and the ability to share realtime data) driven significant growth of electronics within the medical device market? What is driving the significant use and growth of Flexible Circuits (FPCs) in the medical device market? What are the key considerations in choosing an FPC manufacturer? How can organizations attain cost savings when using flexible printed circuits? To view their full e-book, click here.
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Solid Design Solutions provides assistance with the development of new products and creates manufacturing solutions for a number of industries, which include: consumer, medical, specialty machines and industrial. Some of their areas of expertise include: Control engineering Project management Manufacturing engineering Industrial design Software Engineering Mechanical Engineering Electrical Engineering Product Development Research Drafting More details on the type of services they offer can be found here: https://generisgp.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Inforgraphic-final.pdf Solid Design Solutions Website: http://bit.ly/2eMae5b
Read More →Sonoco ThermoSafe Expands Range of LD7 Pallet Shippers for Temperature-Sensitive Bulk Air Shipment
Sonoco ThermoSafe, a unit of Sonoco (NYSE:SON) and a leading global provider of temperature assurance packaging, leverages award winning technology to expand its line of pallet solutions with the launch of the LD7 Half PAG pallet shipper. The Half PAG solution is designed to ship multiple pallet loads, while reducing the cost and operational complexity of bulk shipments by optimizing the use of aircraft ULDs (LD7 air pallets). The Half PAG is available for 2-8°C or 15-25°C temperature ranges with durations in excess of five days. Each solution has a universal pack-out design to be used in both hot and cold seasons while also accommodating the demands of cross-hemispheric shipments. To learn more about LD7 Half PAG Pallet Shippers, Check out this article by Sonoco!
Read More →NEWS RELEASE: GKN to form new joint venture to produce titanium powder for additive manufacturing
GKN Hoeganaes has agreed to enter into a joint venture agreement with TLS Technik to manufacture titanium powders in North America for Additive Manufacturing (AM) applications. Find out more about this venture below!
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As in many other industries, to be competitive in the world market, CNC manufacturing companies need to reduce their costs of production and increase their production output. More parts at less cost per part. Unfortunately, with escalating raw materials prices, this becomes difficult. Therefore, manufacturers have to look to controlling tooling costs and costly downtime, while working to increase speeds and feed rates. Are your toolholders fully engaged in the spindle of your CNC Mill? Most manufacturing problems are a result of tooling issues. Find out how to increase your manufacturing productivity by 10-40% in the JM Performance Products eBook below!
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