The Alzheimer's Challenge 2012 Announces Winner for Open Source Innovation; $300,000 in Total Prizes
June 20, 2012 8:04 am | News | CommentsThe Geoffrey Beene Gives Back® Alzheimer's Initiative today announced Team Ginger.io, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, as the winner of the Alzheimer's Challenge 2012. The winning team, selected today during an event in Washington, D.C...
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Quickparts Provides PediaVision with Single Source Solutions To Develop Breakthrough Vision Screening Device
June 19, 2012 12:29 pm | by Patrick Hunter | Quickparts | Articles | CommentsPediaVision® is a medical device company providing comprehensive vision assessment technology to adults and children as young as 6 months old. Their latest innovation, Spot, is a patent-pending technology that can assess a child’s vision quickly and objectively, eliminating the subjective analysis that results from many of today's vision screening tools.
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Insourcing, Automation, Patents and the Medical Device Industry
June 19, 2012 10:57 am | by Joe Pustka | Blogs | CommentsEarly this year the Washington Post reported, “In 2010, U.S. manufacturers produced nearly $1.8 trillion in goods (in constant 2005 dollars), about $100 billion more than China did.”
LISTED UNDER: Leak Testing | Medical Device Testing | Product Design
Desktop 3D Printer
June 14, 2012 10:40 am | Objet Geometries Ltd. | Product Releases | CommentsObjet Ltd, the innovation leader in 3D printing for rapid prototyping and additive manufacturing, has today launched the new Objet30 Pro – the most versatile professional in-house desktop 3D printer...
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Virtual mold & process development for medical parts
June 13, 2012 5:00 am | by Christof Heisser and Matt Proske | Articles | CommentsSimulation has established itself as an invaluable tool for design engineers in developing new parts and deciding what materials to use in metal casting or plastic injection molding manufacturing processes serving the medical device industry. In the past, such simulation tools were used by analysis groups and the operators of such tools were specialists who would “setup and run” simulations. Today, however, leading design and manufacturing engineers need to be able to provide answers to questions regarding all areas of the manufacturing process, requiring communication between all members of the product development and production team, as well as management and procurement. Conventional design simulation tools, however, do not cover the simulation of the manufacturing process.
LISTED UNDER: Injection Molding | Silicon Molding | Silicon Molding
SLA and Low-Volume Injection Molding and Parts
June 12, 2012 11:47 am | by Patrick Hunter | 3D Systems | Articles | CommentsSuppServe is a boutique package design firm located in northern California that specializes in single-serve dispensing solutions. “Inventors, innovators, marketers and sellers of all things single-serve”, SuppServe is dedicated to simplifying the delivery methods of a variety of common products that are sold in bulk and require single-serve dosing by the customer.
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Effective Teams - Product Development Process and Team Deliverables
June 12, 2012 10:00 am | by Howard Stolz | Honeywell Inc. | Articles | CommentsWhy do some teams consistently meet their schedule, cost, and quality targets and others do not? There are libraries full of answers, but two will be discussed that are critical for effective teams: 1) make sure all team members know the company’s Product Development Process and 2) know which deliverables all team members must provide to each other.
LISTED UNDER: Component Testing | Product DesignLessons Learned at the Intersection of Electronics and Medical Molding
June 12, 2012 9:33 am | by Philip Katen | Articles | CommentsAs the cross-pollination of the molded electronic and medical components industries continues, the products in each industry are becoming much smaller and much more complex. Toolmakers, molders, suppliers and the OEMs of medical components that incorporate electronics must all have a firm understanding of the ideas, processes, expectations and standards of both industries in a collaborative effort to produce the highest quality component-level parts at the lowest viable cost.
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Active Matrix OLED Microdisplay
June 6, 2012 10:13 am | Product Releases | CommentsThe new WUXGA OLED-XLTM microdisplay is being shown in a prototype head-mounted unit in eMagin’s booth (#539); it has also been selected for display and demonstration...
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Quantifying Design for Manufacturability
June 6, 2012 8:56 am | by John Rokus | Micro Power Electronics, Inc. | Articles | CommentsIt was the scientist Lord Kelvin who said, "When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.” So, if you are among those in the medical device industry who are struggling to keep DFM alive and well within your organization, or you plan to kick off a DFx initiative, this article is for you.
LISTED UNDER: Wire and Cable | Medical Device Testing | Component Testing
Roundtable Q & A: Molding
June 6, 2012 5:02 am | by John Schmitz, Shu Peng, and Dave Pool | Articles | CommentsQuestion 1: How are innovative molding techniques enhancing the design capabilities of medical device manufacturers?
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Perspectives on Battling HAIs
June 5, 2012 11:28 am | Articles | CommentsWhat impact does the effort to reduce the incidence of hospital acquired infections have on the development of new medical devices?
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Perspectives on Prototyping, Part II
June 5, 2012 8:39 am | Articles | CommentsHas design software reached the point where it can serve as an acceptable replacement for physical prototypes in medical device manufacturing?
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Perspectives on Prototyping, Part I
June 5, 2012 8:23 am | Articles | CommentsHas design software reached the point where it can serve as an acceptable replacement for physical prototypes in medical device manufacturing?
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Living in the Material World
June 5, 2012 7:00 am | by Gus Breiland | Articles | CommentsMolding prototype components enables the medical device designer to get a “preview” of a finished part before going into full production. However, to get the full benefit of this, material selection should be just about completed, including any additives that are to be used. This article looks at the considerations for medical device developers when planning molded prototype components.
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