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Design for manufacturing (DFM) or design for manufacturability involves designing a medical device component or product so it can be efficiently manufactured. Adopting DFM principles during the product design stages of your project ensures a smoother design transfer process and, ultimately, improves the quality of your product once manufacturing begins. Examples of the questions that … Medical Device Design for Manufacturing (DFM) Best Practices

Design for Manufacturing (DFM) is a set of principles that ensure new medical device products can be efficiently manufactured. The primary goal of DFM is to reduce manufacturing complexities, costs, and problems while maintaining quality, safety, and performance, particularly in relation to the product’s defined functionality requirements. The elements of a product’s design that engineers … Design for Manufacturing (DFM) Best Practices When Designing Medical Device Products

Sensors are becoming increasingly critical components of new and innovative catheter products. As sensor technologies develop further, a number of design considerations must be taken into account when integrating sensors into catheters. A key objective in the design process is to ensure the catheter is safe and performs as intended. When that is achieved, sensors … Design Considerations When Integrating Sensors into Catheters

Interventional and diagnostic catheters have transformed healthcare. They enable increasingly advanced minimally invasive medical procedures that are precise, targeted, and effective while minimizing patient trauma and recovery times. While the benefits of advanced catheter technologies are substantial, integrating sensors into these devices is taking their capabilities to another level. Sensors integrated into interventional and diagnostic … The Benefits of Integrating Sensors into Catheters

Specialty medical needles are essential to the success of an increasing number of medical procedures, including minimally invasive medical procedures. They are also essential components in some of the most innovative medical devices currently being developed. Sharpness, durability, and precision are critical characteristics of specialty medical needles. Specialty medical needles should also typically minimize penetration … Brief Guide to Specialty Medical Needles

The design of the packaging for your medical device product is often as important as the design of the medical device. Packaging is critical for compliance, quality, and patient safety, and it can be a key factor in the commercial success of the product. In a previous blog, we gave an overview of sterile barrier … Sterile Barrier Medical Device Packaging Design Considerations

At Arrotek, we continuously work to improve how we operate to enhance the quality of the services that we offer. This includes using Lean Manufacturing methodologies to optimise production processes for our manufacturing customers, but we take a similar approach to other parts of our business, including medical device product design. Specifically, we use Lean … How We Apply Lean Six Sigma to Medical Device Product Design

In medical device start-ups, the focus of decisions on suppliers and partners is often on the needs of the here and now. You might need a design partner, for example, or a reliable supplier of specialty needles. These here-and-now considerations are essential, but it is also important to remember that the suppliers and partners you … How the Right Partners Can Help Your MedTech Start-Up Achieve Its Long-Term Goals

Packaging is often one of the last things that is thought about in a medical device product development project. The reality is it takes time to properly design and test packaging for medical device products, especially sterile barrier medical device packaging. Furthermore, the importance of packaging to the success of your product, not to mention … An Overview of Sterile Barrier Medical Device Packaging Design

Steerable catheters are used in a range of different applications, including cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, and neurological procedures. One thing these types of procedures often have in common is the need to navigate complex vasculatures to reach the required treatment or diagnostic site. As a result, steerable catheters have transformed health-care by improving minimally invasive procedures. … Essential Performance Characteristics for Steerable Catheters