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When it comes to government support for medical-device manufacturing, do you ever get the feeling that nations such as Singapore are eating our lunch? During a recent tour of medical firms there, I felt a palatable sense of excitement and innovation in the air, no doubt due to the government’s proactive and aggressive funding of small and medium-size medical manufacturers (firms can come from anywhere across the globe as long as they open a unit in Singapore). Besides nations such as Malaysia, China, and Viet Nam, Singapore does a lot of business with Australia.
So why would a company such as Australian-based Unilife, which manufactures the proprietary Unitract safety syringe, open its new multimillion-dollar global headquarters in York, PA, instead of, say, Singapore?
— Leslie Gordon,
Senior Editor
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For a peek into how an Asian medical-device firm might innovate, consider the example of Meiban in Singapore, meiban.com.sg. It started out as a plastics injection molder in a small shop in Singapore and now has contract manufacturing facilities in China and Malaysia as well as Singapore. Helen Ho, an industrial designer at Meiban, says the company wanted to do something different in adding industrial design to the existing engineering and manufacturing capabilities. So she developed the idea of the “Designershive ” group for designers.
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Which rapid prototyping technique works best for micromolded components? To find out, Accumold, Arkeny, IA, presented a test part to several RP service bureaus. The company designed the part to include many of the dimensions and features that medical, optic, and micro electronics industries require. Thus, the part’s overall dimensions were 0.200 × 0.200 × 0.125 in. Features included 0.010 and 0.020-in.-diameter through holes; 0.015 × 0.006 in. and 0.005 × 0.0025-in. thin wall sections, and a highly polished surface embedded with twelve 0.009846-in.-diameter lenses. Delicate features and embossed details completed the component.
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According to Joel Delman, Design Director, Product Development Technology Inc. today’s intuitive touch screens and icons are minimizing training expenses and impacting the outcomes of procedures, as well as providing effective ways for differentiating devices in the marketplace and making product upgrades. And tomorrow’s interfaces will likely evolve from flat, 2D experiences to 3D or “spatial interfaces,” where the user interacts within a virtual space.
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Lexan EFR film, a polycarbonate film technology from Sabic Innovative Plastics, provides non-brominated, non-chlorinated flame retardance at thinner gauges than flame-retardant polypropylene.
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The FDA-approved EverOn from EarlySense is a contact-free, patient-supervision system that uses a sensor placed underneath a hospital bed mattress to measure a patient's vital signs and movements.
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A combination of Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR) and a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution from AdvancedMD Software Inc is intended to help healthcare companies cut costs by eliminating the need to install hardware, train employees, and provide maintanence, as well as ensure up-to-date compliance.
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