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Keeping up with the New Pace of Business: How Risk Management Tools can Improve Product Quality in Today’s Rapid Lifecycles
9/2/2011
With the product lifecycle moving so fast, many organizations may ask the question, "how can we effectively measure quality?" What can an organization do to keep up with this new pace of business while...
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Enhancing Collaboration with the FDA through MedWatch Plus
9/2/2011
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is tasked with the job of ensuring that all products produced within medical device, food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, biologics, and all other industries are produced safely and...
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An Insider's Guide to Selecting a Quality Management Software System
9/2/2011
As demand for Quality Management solutions grow, so does the vendor landscape - more software vendors are providing solutions for Quality and Compliance Management than ever before. With a high demand and a large vendor...
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Uncovering the Hidden Factory by Integrating your Systems
9/2/2011
There is a mysterious, secret hidden factory lurking in your organization, but don't go searching in the plant to find it. This factory is hidden because there is a lack of communication between your Enterprise...
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Managing your Risk Has its Rewards: Making the Case for Risk Assessment in Streamlining your Quality and Compliance Processes
9/2/2011
In today's Quality Management systems, the ability to control and correct processes is key to maintaining a high level of compliance within an organization, and in many cases, the ability to discern the overall...
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Stryker Osteosynthesis: Achieving Operational and Supply Chain Excellence
8/23/2011
Stryker Osteosynthesis is a provider of reconstructive, trauma and spinal products in the medical technology industry. Since 1941, Stryker has grown to a position of global leadership in the $35.6 billion orthopedic...
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Fluid Handling in Medical Device Design: Issues and Challenges
8/19/2011
The proliferation of advanced medical devices and diagnostic instruments continues to accelerate. Laboratories, hospitals and physicians are demanding a growing array of increasingly complex yet smaller, faster and more...
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Electrical Safety Verification & Validation: Part 2 - Validation
8/18/2011
For medical device manufactures changing equipment can be a grueling task. Obtaining new test equipment to combine processes and eliminate errors is exciting. However, the implementation of the new equipment quickly...
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Electrical Safety Verification & Validation: Part 1 - Validation
8/18/2011
For medical device manufactures changing equipment can be a grueling task. Obtaining new test equipment to combine processes and eliminate errors is exciting. However, the implementation of the new equipment...
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Battery Power – An Evolving Technology
8/16/2011
Little doubt exists about contemporary battery power and its diverse use potential. With the advent of lighter, smaller, higher powered, lower amperage cells, the technological applications have become "...
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Portable Power Considerations for Medical Device Design
8/15/2011
Many medical devices are moving from simple back-up power to true portability. This creates challenges unique to medical devices and adds new advances in battery technology that can enhance and differentiate portable...
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Engineering Metal Stampings and Springs for Manufacturability
Connecticut Spring and Stamping
8/15/2011
Engineering expertise is taking on an ever-more important role in designing for manufacturability in the world of metal stamped parts and springs. Particularly in today’s new medical devices engineering expertise...
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Small ID (< .004”) Optical Measurement Method for Miniature Tubing
8/9/2011
Traditionally, inside diameters (ID) have been measured using pin gages. Pin gages are inserted 1/16" until tight to determine the press fit ID. For most tubing sizes (ID: .005-.200"), this...
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Quantifying the Business Value of Medical Device Connectivity
7/27/2011
Each Connected Medical Device (CMD) saves from 4 to 36 minutes of nursing time and prevents up to 24 data errors daily. CMDs can save over 100 hours of nursing time per day in a typical hospital, giving nurses more time...
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Irradiation of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) and Pharmaceutical Fillers
7/21/2011
View this TechTip to learn about issues that must be considered when processing APIs or pharmaceutical fillers, the benefits of terminal sterilization for these types of materials, characteristics that lead to...
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Reference Dosimetry for Frozen Healthcare Products
7/21/2011
Ensuring the correct radiation dose is delivered to a healthcare product is essential. Frozen products surrounded by high density materials such as ice packs or dry ice during the irradiation process presents a unique...
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Printing Functional Traces on Medical Devices
Micropen Technologies Corporation
7/19/2011
The need for multifunctional and active medical devices continues to evolve and grow, bringing challenges in determining the best methods for introducing the desired features For example, addition of sensing electronics...
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Silicone Rubber: Material Benefits and Fabrication Advantages
7/18/2011
Selecting a high-quality elastomer for critical applications, particularly medical devices, can be a challenge. Designers, engineers and managers must carefully evaluate a wide array of material properties and...
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Interface Catheter Solutions Now Offers a Standard Catheter Balloon Program with a Large Inventory of High-Quality, Market-Ready Balloons
7/18/2011
Interface Catheter Solutions has extensive experience in producing medical balloons to customer specifications for a wide variety of clinical applications. Interface now offers an expansive online balloon catalog for...
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The Cool Future of UV Curable Silicone Extrusion
Specialty Silicone Fabricators
7/18/2011
Silicone Elastomers are high-performance thermoset materials broadly used in diverse industries, including automotive, aerospace, electronics, consumer goods, and health care. They are recognized for their unique...
