New and innovative medical devices are often complex with a range of different components and features. This particularly applies to advanced catheters, hand delivery systems, and other minimally invasive medical devices. Designing and developing those different components and features requires specific expertise and knowledge. Therefore, it is important to work with a medical device design company that offers whole product development capabilities.
By partnering with a single medical device design specialist, you can get on with other aspects of your business as you won’t have to spend time managing and coordinating a range of different suppliers.
The design project itself will also be more efficient and effective, with benefits ranging from the quality of the product to deadline timescales.
Comprehensive Expertise
A company with whole medical device capabilities will have extensive in-house resources and experience that it can use to the benefit of your project. Industry-leading medical device design companies also have well-established relationships with companies in highly niche areas.
And for those rare occasions where completely new and novel expertise is needed, an experienced medical device design company will have the industry contacts and know-how to find it.
Delegating Coordination
Partnering with a whole medical device design company means you don’t have to worry about coordinating the design effort. The coordination is instead handled by an experienced and resourceful project manager who will remain in regular communication to ensure you are kept informed of progress.
More Efficient Planning
Project planning will also be more efficient and effective when one design partner is responsible for developing the complete device. This is because there will be minimal external variables to factor into the planning or that could cause disruption.
Better Collaboration
Collaboration is also improved, not least because the engineers working on designing the various components are likely to be in the same room rather than in different companies. The ability to quickly and effectively collaborate both ad hoc and on a structured basis makes medical device design projects run much more smoothly.
Scheduling Effectiveness
Scheduling the various stages and milestones is also easier and more accurate as a single design partner will have complete oversight and control over the resources required to reach each stage. They will also be able to quickly identify bottlenecks and other scheduling issues so mitigation measures can be put in place.
Ease of Communication
The more partners you work with, the greater the complexity of communication. Working with a single design partner for the development of the whole medical device simplifies communication and ensures it takes place on your terms.
Oversight
You will also have more accurate, up-to-date, and timely oversight of the project as you won’t need to get updates from multiple sources. In most situations, your project manager can brief you on the state of the project in a single email, conversation, or meeting, keeping you fully informed.
Whole Medical Device Capabilities at Arrotek
We have developed our medical device design capabilities at Arrotek to cover complete and finished minimally invasive medical devices from concept to commercialisation. We also have extensive manufacturing capabilities in our production plants in the USA, Ireland, and Central America, and we offer regulatory support. To learn more and to discuss your project in complete confidence, get in touch with us today.
