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ACRO Joins Coalition of Small Business Innovators

May 21, 2013 11:09 am | by The Associated Press | News | Comments

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2013--The Association of Clinical Research Organizations announced today it has joined the Coalition of Small Business Innovators (CSBI). CSBI is a national, non-partisan coalition of organizations dedicated to stimulating sustained, private investment in...

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BIO Joins Coalition of Small Business Innovators

May 21, 2013 10:30 am | by The Associated Press | News | Comments

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2013--The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) announced today it has joined the Coalition of Small Business Innovators (CSBI). CSBI is a national, non-partisan coalition of organizations dedicated to stimulating sustained, private investment in small,...

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Coalition of Small Business Innovators Launches to Encourage a Tax Code that Creates Jobs and Promotes Long-Term Economic Growth

May 21, 2013 10:00 am | by The Associated Press | News | Comments

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2013--The Coalition of Small Business Innovators (CSBI) launches today with 15 organizations representing thousands of pre-revenue small businesses that employ millions of Americans in all 50 states. The Coalition aims to promote small business advancement as...

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Where Has All the Training Gone?

May 14, 2013 11:41 am | by Kathy Bellemare, Director of Human Resources, and Robert Allen, Director of Engineering, Tooling, and Metal Form, Connecticut Spring & Stamping | Connecticut Spring & Stamping | Blogs | Comments

Training is extremely important to the future of manufacturing in the United States, yet in many states, it has fallen by the wayside. Training for skilled manufacturing positions has been hit by a perfect storm of budget cuts and the mistaken idea that all young workers should go to college. What training exists has a near-exclusive focus on non-manufacturing skills.

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5 Ways to Turn a Medical Supply Chain into a Competitive Advantage

May 9, 2013 2:25 pm | by Greg Thompson, Vice President of Engineering, Sanmina | Blogs | Comments

Design engineers are charged with creating reliable, high quality, safe medical devices that easily (and quickly) pass U.S. FDA and other geographies’ regulatory requirements. Because of the unique challenges that a medical device OEM must overcome to stay competitive, more and more OEMs are choosing to outsource manufacturing.

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GHX Delivers Industry’s First Implantable Devices Supply Chain Solutions for Healthcare

May 7, 2013 11:09 am | by GHX | News | Comments

GHX has announced Case Xpert and Order Intelligence, the healthcare industry’s first end-to-end supply chain solutions for managing and tracking implantable medical devices, including the physician preference items (PPI) used in operating rooms.

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The Value of 5S Workplace Organization Methodology Programs

April 30, 2013 3:42 pm | by Jim Norton, President, Custom Products & Services, Inc. | Blogs | Comments

Many manufacturing facilities have opted to follow the path toward a “5S” workplace organizational and housekeeping methodology as part of continuous improvement or lean manufacturing processes. 5S is a system to reduce waste and optimize productivity through maintaining an orderly workplace and using visual cues to achieve more consistent operational results.

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Making a Name for Yourself in the Industry

April 25, 2013 10:27 am | by Jonathan Gosberg, Principal, Gosberg Public Relations, LLC | Blogs | Comments

2012 was a year marked by a great deal of uncertainty for medical device manufacturers in the U.S. with several key issues up in the air, including proposed changes to the FDA’s device review and approval process, healthcare reforms, and the medical device excise tax. That said, analysts are still predicting growth in the medical device market, moving forward.

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Think Before Sending that Email

April 18, 2013 2:39 pm | by Patricia J. McGrath and Christopher M. Scharff, Shareholders, McAndrews, Held & Malloy | Blogs | Comments

The medical device industry is, without question, one of the most litigious industries. Medical device companies are constantly engaging in high-stakes patent or trade disputes, defending against product liability claimants, or fending off new market entrants. So when a seemingly harmless communication becomes a major piece of evidence in a case brought against your company, you do not want to be the one who hit “Send.”

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Product Commercialization Capabilities

March 8, 2013 10:35 am | by MDT Staff | Joining Technologies, Inc. | Product Releases | Comments

Joining Technologies, Inc., an innovator in industrial laser applications, announces that it has expanded its core competencies to include product commercialization assistance.

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With Patient Health at Stake, Medical Equipment Industry Needs to Improve Supply Chain Visibility

January 4, 2013 2:35 pm | by Armin Meissner | Blogs | Comments

There are few industries as tightly interwoven with life and death issues as medical equipment. Getting everything right; from adherence to regulations to on-time product deliveries to perfectly performing products, is paramount. Complete transparency throughout the medical equipment supply chain is an absolute necessity. Transparency cannot be a part-time or partial commitment but rather, it must be an all-out endeavor to achieve safer and more effective patient healthcare.

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Precision Molded Medical Components and Assemblies

December 20, 2012 10:43 am | Minnesota Rubber & Plastics | Product Releases | Comments

Medical equipment manufacturers seeking a qualified manufacturing partner will find this brochure particularly useful. It details Minnesota Rubber and Plastics’ 65 years of experience in the medical components...

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Perspectives on Supplier Differentiator, Part II

October 19, 2012 2:10 pm | by Deborah Kacera, Daniel Rudolf, Dan Walsh, Christine Forcier, and Bill Leverich | Pilgrim Software, Inc. | Articles | Comments

The next evolution is the focus on the supply chain and ensuring the detailed processes are in place and that products/processes provided by downstream suppliers are validated and real. With globalization as the post facto now, it will require more stringent supplier controls from the initial selection of suppliers through the monitoring phases. How will suppliers select and monitor their supplier base?

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Perspectives on Supplier Differentiator, Part I

October 19, 2012 11:49 am | by Joe Rotino, Alan Walsh, Aidan Petrie, Carol Tucker, and Michelle Lott | Pro-Dex | Articles | Comments

As external industry influences like excise taxes, longer approval process time, and reimbursement pressures bear down on device manufacturers, development partners must look to areas of opportunity and how to best support medical firms in these pursuits. While opportunities such as the growing and aging population and emerging markets are getting a lot of play, it’s also important to realize that progress (i.e., technological advances) poses perhaps the most significant area of opportunity in transforming healthcare.

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Thogus Launches Jalex, a Medical Device Company

October 15, 2012 4:15 pm | by Thogus | News | Comments

Thogus, a 62-year old custom injection molder expands services to include rapidly developing medical device market. JALEX Medical, LLC will focus exclusively on biomedical engineering, product development and regulatory/quality assistance. JALEX joins Thogus and Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing (rp+m) under the same roof, fostering accelerated product design through complete production.

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