By Joe Jancsurak, Editor
A webinar held last week revealed a few insights into what medical device designers are thinking when it comes to design and material trends. Titled, “Why medical device companies should look to innovations in plastic for new growth opportunities” and sponsored by Frost & Sullivan and SABIC Plastics, the webinar included three poll questions.
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Recent MedicalDesign.com Reader Polls asked your opinion on whether FDA and AdvaMed are effectively addressing and representing industry concerns over the 510(k) product review process. For the FDA poll, 74% answered No; for the AdvaMed poll, a lesser majority, 56%, answered No. Looks like device makers believe there’s still a lot of room for improvement by both organizations. This month’s Reader Poll asks, For 2012, will your company’s research and development expenditures increase, decrease, or remain the same? To weigh in, visit www.MedicalDesign.com.
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Biologic Therapies, an Ocala, FL-based start-up, is specializing in the design and manufacturing of components for the biologics sector of the medical device industry. The company was formed as a joint venture between Valencia, CA-based Scorpion Medical, Inc, a precision manufacturer of medical devices, and Salt Lake City-based Monet Medical, Inc, a medical device development company owned and operated by R. Wade McKenna, an orthopedic surgeon and Charles Bolles, a medical device distribution expert.
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An advanced joint simulation technology by Advanced Mechanical Technology, Inc (AMTI), Watertown, MA, is showing researchers how new prosthetic designs will perform inside the human body. Virtual Soft Tissue (VST), a highly detailed and programmable computer model, accounts for the missing biological structure of the knee during simulation testing of joint implants.
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BlueStar Silicones, Momentive Performance Materials, and Wacker Chemical Corporation are among the companies represented by the lineup of speakers at Silicone Elastomers US 2011; Dec 6 and 7 at the Hyatt Rosemont (IL). The inaugural event is iSmithers (ismithers.net), which has held similar conferences in Europe for the past four years. Scheduled topics and speakers include . . .
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The LumetriScan 360 by Lumetrics, Rochester, NY, is a fully automated, noncontact thickness measurement system for the medical industry.
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Two new industrial-grade panel control models that include a push-pull switch and rotary switch were recently announced by Bourns, Inc, Riverside, CA.
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Literature medical applications for Nitinol 60 material and processes has been released by Abbott Ball Co, West Hartford, CT.
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