Entering a Golden Age of Medical Materials
Ethicon’s principal materials engineer discusses the latest in exciting new medical materials and considers where the trends will take device makers and designers in the years ahead.
Technical Articles
Stamping or Machining: What Do You Choose for Your Metal Devices?
Consider device fit, form, and function as well as materials, volume, cost, and more.
How Switches Can Support Doctors Saving Lives in the Operating Room
The consistency, longevity, and quality of the switches and components used in medical devices can have a direct impact on performance in the operating room.
How to Keep Up with FDA’s Expanding UDI Requirements
September 2018 brings a new deadline. Here’s what medical device manufacturers need to do.
A Brief Introduction to Medical Device Biocompatibility
Biocompatibility of medical devices is a complex and evolving subject. Here's what you need to know.
Adhesive Considerations for Direct-Skin Wearable Medical Technologies
These four categories of wearables have specific needs—do you know what questions to ask?
Will Your Heartbeat Someday Unlock Your Phone?
Engineers are working on a new kind of cybersecurity authentication system that uses the waveform of a user’s heartbeat to ensure security.
How Much Should Device Designers Really Know about Micro-Coaxial or Twin-Axial Cables?
Answer: The more device designers know, the better.
State of the U.S. Market for Dental Bone Graft Substitutes and Other Biomaterials
The U.S. market for dental Bone graft substitutes and other biomaterials is growing in response to the growth of the dental implants market.
Challenging the Status Quo of Project Management
What does it take to drive innovation in a corporate environment, particularly when the project team itself is comprised of more than 100 people?
Design History File vs. 510(k) vs. Technical File: What Do Medical Device Developers Need to Know?
These three types of files cause a great deal of confusion.
How to Reduce the Burden of Iterative Design and Evaluation
Learn about the analytical human factors techniques that help maximize the likelihood that a medical product will be safe and effective for the intended users, uses, and use environments.
Designing Connected Medical Devices: Overcoming Key RF Challenges
Understanding the key design, performance, and certification issues involved in connecting medical devices can help eliminate many of the challenges facing medical device manufacturers, and direct them down the correct path.
Composing Compliance: How Music Theory Can Meet Standards While Elevating Experience
Sonic experiences matter in medical products. By aligning the process of product sound design with medical guidelines for alerts and alarms, medical devices gain a new opportunity to connect more deeply with their users.
Does Your Product Need a More-Flexible Sterilization Cycle?
A process control system for EtO sterilization chambers could give medical device companies "precise" control.