Electrocutting and Mechanical Cutting for Endoscopic Applications
Even the simplest medical cable assembly projects contain numerous engineering considerations. And among the most complex applications, the quantity of requirements can skyrocket. Factors such as diameter, construction, material, coating, length, and tolerance are only a few of the often-mountainous specifica

Managing the 2020 Medical Device Windows Upgrade Cycle - Solutions for the Windows 7 End-of-Life in January 2020
On January 14, 2020, medical device manufacturers that use Windows® 7 in their devices face a critical, expensive deadline. Windows 7 support is set to expire on that day. Millions of devices in the field run on Windows, and without upgrades, they are security risks. System upgrades are needed to maintain

High-Performance Micro-Porous Fluoropolymer Plastics for Critical Applications
ePTFE, a non-woven, open pore Fluoropolymer plastic, is suitable for the critical demands of medical applications and other industries.

Top 5 Common Mistakes Engineers Make When Designing For ePTFE
ePTFE is extremely versatile, perfect for many industries & applications, and offers exceptional physical & chemical properties. It can be strong, rigid, thick, thin, flexible, or permeable (depending on the ultimate use). It is a highly flexible, lubricious, chemically inert, hydrophobic plastic. With all

Getting the Most from Your Extrusion Tooling
Tooling maintenance improves extrusion efficiency, enhances quality and boosts overall productivity for our medical tubing applications

Understanding The EU Medical Device Regulation For Device Companies
Europe’s new Medical Device Regulation (MDR) will have a big impact on product-development timelines. Companies must be planning now for stricter biocompatibility testing requirements, which will go into effect in May 2020. This white paper, Understanding the EU Medical Device Regulation for Device Com

Establishing Bioburden Alert and Action Levels
Most national and international standards regarding bioburden, sterilization, or environmental testing refer to establishing alert and action levels to assist in demonstrating continued control over a process or product. The standards sometime include guidance on evaluating the data but seldom go any furth

3D Printed Medical Devices and Biocompatibility
The use of three-dimensional (3D) printing techniques to address challenging fabrication problems has become mainstream over the past decade. While this rich resource has extended fabrication of personalized medical devices to the limit of our imagination, the myriad materials and morphologies available pr

Sterilization & Biocompatibility of 3D-Printed Orthopedic Devices
Download this whitepaper to learn about the various biocompatibility and sterilization considerations surrounding 3D-printed orthopedic devices. 3D-printed orthopedic medical devices are gaining attention and popularity due to their potential for enhanced biocompatibility, customizability, and cost-effectiven

A "Particle" of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure
The Significant Benefits of Premarket & Postmarket Particulate Testing of Cardiovascular Devices

Considerations for Third-Party Reprocessing of Single-Use Medical Devices
Reusing single-use devices that have been safely reprocessed by a third-party reprocessor can enable healthcare providers to maintain high-quality patient care while saving on costs and reducing medical waste. Validated functionality testing must be paired with validated cleaning, disinfection, and steriliza

Current Regulatory Landscape for EO Residue Levels in Medical Devices: What Manufacturers Need To Know Now and What May Be on the Horizon
The goal for medical device manufacturers that use EO sterilization to minimize patient exposure to EO residues and (and EO derivatives) from their devices and ensure that the levels of residual EO, ethylene chlorohydrin (ECH), and ethylene glycol (EG) pose the least amount of risk possible to the patient

EO Residue Levels in Medical Devices
Sterilizing medical devices via ethylene oxide gas is an effective and common practice within the industry. EO gas is active at a relatively low temperature compared to other methods, such as steam, and it is compatible with plastics, polymers, and many products that are not compat¬ible with other sterilizati

Choosing Colorants for Medical Devices
Colorants are often added to the substrates and material components of medical devices with the primary intent of improving the usability of the devices. For instance, color coding can assist users in matching devices or sizes together when multiple options are available. Colorants can also be used to brand m

Selecting & Justifying Sample Sizes: Where to Begin?
Within our industry, we have seen several approaches to selecting samples sizes; this paper will not cover all of the approaches, but it is a guide to give medical device manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies a good starting point for determining their own ideal sample size.

Could Lean Product Development Get You to Market Faster?
Every manufacturing engineer is familiar with The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production. First published in 1990, this classic book was the first to detail the Toyota Production System from which the principles of Lean Production were derived. The authors predicted that Lean Producti

Medtech Mergers & Acquisitions of 2018
Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) continued to change the landscape in the medical device and diagnostics industry in 2018. See which companies were bought, sold, or spun-off last year with our comprehensive list of 2018 medtech M&As. Information in the report includes the following: Buyers

Medtech Salary Survey 2018
Is it time to ask for a raise? Each year, we ask medical device and diagnostic industry professionals detailed questions about their compensation and careers. This year, 245 full-time medtech professionals sent in responses. We’ve analyzed the data to reveal the median salary for the industry as well as ga

Advancements in Clear High Barrier Packaging Materials
Clear high-barrier materials are an excellent alternative to traditional aluminum foil. Manufacturers enjoy the ability to easily inspect packaged product through the use of vision systems, metal detectors, and manual visual inspection. As a marketing tool, clear materials allow for product differentiation

Protecting Healthcare Software
The purpose of this white paper is to highlight potential threats in typical modern medical applications in terms of cybersecurity and protection of patients’ medical data, and how to effectively address these threats with Intertrust’s whiteCryption® technology.

Challenges with MEMS Pressure Sensor Integration in Medical Devices
This white paper discusses the need for pressure sensor integration in medical devices with a focus on applications, different pressure sensing technologies, MEMS sensor options, and considerations during the encapsulation and integration process. It highlights the need for an experienced partner to help stre

Finding Balanced Solutions for Medical-Grade Materials
When medical device and diagnostics manufacturers work through material selection for their products, polymers such as polycarbonate (PC), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), and poly-vinyl chloride (PVC) are commonly used materials that first come to mind. Some of these established grades are used because t

Leveraging Human Factors Testing to Develop a Better MedTech Product
Historically, human factors risk has taken a back seat to clinical risk. For a product to be viable it needs to clinically work and used as intended in a safe and effective way. By not focusing on mitigating risk on both fronts, there remains a chance that the safety of patients, doctors, nurses

Free: MD+DI’s 2015 Medtech Salary Survey
Find out how your salary compares with that of your peers in the medical device and diagnostic industry with MD+DI's 2015 Medtech Salary Survey. We’ve compiled salary data for the industry as a whole as well as for six job descriptions (general and corporate management, product design engineering, QA/QC, regu

5 Sci-Fi Technologies Coming to Medical Devices
Science fiction authors have an uncanny knack for helping to predict the future of technology. Here are five real medical technologies that were first depicted in science fiction films and novels.

5 Pitfalls You Need to Avoid When Outsourcing
Here are five expert-identified pitfalls that medical device companies need to watch out for when taking the contract manufacturing route.

America's Greatest Medtech Hubs: What You Need to Know
From Silicon Valley to the Twin Cities to Boston, Qmed/MPMN readers identified the top medtech hubs in the United States. Here are snapshots of each.

Top 100 Medical Device Companies of 2015
Since a wave of megamergers swept the medical device and diagnostics industry over the past couple of years, there has been a lot of change on medtech's leaderboard. Keep track of who's on top with our 2015 ranking of medical device and diagnostic players by total revenue. Information includes company

The Top 10 Medtech States
A substantial proportion of the medical device industry is clustered in a handful of states. Here’s a rundown of the top 10 U.S. states for medtech based on employment, patents, NIH funding, VC medical device funding, and business climate. Takeaways from the report: California attrac

How the Largest Medtech Companies Performed in Early 2016
The majority of the world’s largest medical device companies actually saw their stock prices decline during the first three months of 2016. Check out our spreadsheet of stock performance for 91 of the largest companies.