First-to-Market Vs. robust commercialization: trade-offs, tips, and tactics
Bringing your medical device to market involves a lot of trade-offs. First-to-Market Vs. robust commercialization process. Do you launch quickly with a minimum viable product? There may be significant...
View ArticleHow to extract good value from your medical device supply chain
Manufacturing low volume, high complex medical device products requires sourcing highly customized and expensive parts. This makes it hard to extract good value from your medical device supply chain....
View ArticleTackling Supply Chain Quality Challenges in low volume manufacturing
Supply chain quality challenges in low volume manufacturing for medical device manufacturers include analysis of the data measuring supplier performance in relation to product risk. Under ISO...
View Article5 Tricks that reduce low volume supplier lead times
Negotiating low volume lead supplier times is not without challenges. Vendors can look at low volume quantities or lower dollar value orders as less priority or of importance to fulfill. Adding to...
View ArticleHow to research the Infectious Disease Diagnostics market potential
The internet is full of great research data. This blog lists research four questions to address when considering Infectious Disease Diagnostics market potential. I show how publicly posted research and...
View ArticleTop 10 medical device commercialization lessons and tips
We asked our development and commercialization experts to share their top medical device commercialization lessons and tips based upon actual medical device development and commercialization...
View ArticleHow ERP Benefits Medical Device Commercialization
I’m often asked how ERP benefits medical device commercialization. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a very powerful tool that helps many companies succeed. The medical device industry faces...
View ArticleOur 10 most viewed medtech videos in 2019
Have you watched our 10 most viewed medtech videos in 2019? StarFish Medical videos help viewers learn about medical device design, development and manufacture. They are also a great way to get a...
View ArticleOur 10 most read medical device commercialization blogs of 2019
Two new medical device commercialization blogs and authors joined our 2019 “most read” list. Regulatory and electrical engineering articles tied for most popular topic (4 each), followed by biotech...
View ArticleHow to construct a custom differential screw
Understanding a differential screw and how to construct one I recently had to construct a custom differential screw when designing a precision test fixture for one of our medical device projects. We...
View ArticleHow to get the most from your FDM 3D printer
Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) desktop 3D printers have become a huge part of prototyping and testing. Knowing how to get the most out of your 3D printer is increasingly important when designing...
View ArticleAdvantages and Disadvantages of Designing a Custom PCB
When designing an electrical or electronic system, product designers may find themselves asking “Should we be spinning a custom PCB (Printed Circuit Board), or hand-wiring on a perfboard or...
View ArticleBig changes in ISO 14971:2019
Changes in ISO 14971:2019 mean a big change to the medical device industry. ISO 14971:2019 was released mid-December, and the EN version was released on December 18, 2019. The last time this standard...
View ArticleSix tips for developing a “lab-on-a-chip” (LOC) solution
Microfluidic systems, also referred to as “lab-on-a-chip” (LOC), “biochips”, or micro-total-analysis-systems” are widely used in the Biotech industry. This blog shares six tips for developing a...
View ArticleKatherine Elvira Interview: How microfluidics will impact medical device...
Dr. Katherine Elvira recently spoke with Nick Allan about her work developing lab-on-a-chip (microfluidic) technologies to investigate how drugs enter human cells and to analyze how they perform when...
View ArticleTranslating point of care assays to microfluidic cartridges
Developing a consumable for your point of care diagnostic solution? This blog highlights my top recommendations for translating point of care assays that are simple, low cost and easy to use....
View Article5 biological sciences medical device breakthroughs for this decade
Biological sciences medical device breakthroughs for this decade have a solid base to build upon. 3D tissue printing, advancements in cell therapy and regenerative medicine and gene editing...
View ArticleClean or Sterile medical device: How clean does it need to be?
Medical devices often come into contact with patients, and users. Sometimes repeatedly. Addressing patient and user contact is a critical aspect of medical device development. Biocompatibility is a...
View ArticleCreate better functional models from anatomical scans
More than just a pretty model Medical scanning technology allows us to find and generate our own anatomical 3D models. But having an anatomical model made (usually in the form of a mesh file, STL or...
View ArticleUsing Monte Carlo Simulation for Biomedical Device Design
Light from biomedical devices interacts with human tissue, which contains a variety of structures and cell sizes and shapes. In many cases, optical scattering plays a strong role in the propagation of...
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