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Manufacturing Matters
Image via Wikipedia Look around the parking lots of medical device companies, and you’ll find that most engineers drive Japanese cars. Even those who drive something else acknowledge the manufacturing...
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Star Medical Device Engineer – Specification and Test Development
Technically creative product designs stoke engineering pride. Most medical device engineers are happiest when flexing their technical muscle – developing elegant mechanisms, designing clever electrical...
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Star Medical Device Engineer – Statistical Thinking
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS If you haven’t learned to fear adhesive bonds, you haven’t lived a complete medical device life. Adhesives are truly marvels of transmutation: liquids stay liquid until...
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Star Medical Device Engineer – Experimental Protocols
My colleague Chris recently noted: “the right way to do things is often a pain in the butt.” No question that most engineers see protocols as a pain in the butt – yet another file to sherpa through the...
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Lessons From Tesla – Service Is Not a Profit Center
In almost every business, customers weigh the downside of poor product reliability more than the upside of new product features. Consumer demand for reliability has driven automotive industry design...
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Lessons From @TeslaMotors – Rethinking the Role of the Dealer
Medical device companies and auto manufacturers depend on a network of dealers or distributors, to market, sell and service manufacturers’ products around the world. It’s the accepted way of doing...
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Star engineers excel at failure investigation. Full stop. We’ve been working on some really interesting failure investigations at Fractyl recently, and I always like to take a step back to learn from...
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