Our manufacturing leaders recently convened on Zoom to identify changes we’ve made for manufacturing safety and efficiency during COVID-19 and offer tips for delivering a healthy, productive manufacturing operation.
How many have you made? We posed the question, “What’s the worst mistake you can make when developing a medical device?” to our team of engineering, design, quality, regulatory and manufacturing experts. The answers were fast and furious (well, filled with enthusiasm) and in no particular order of importance, May you read and learn from […]
Our design team discuss their top insights from time constrained, critical ventilator project in Canada’s Response to COVID-19
Many have paused work for a COVID-19 required break. As an essential business, our work did not pause. We asked our content team of engineers, regulatory, quality, design, and program management creative professionals where they find inspiration for their contributions to medical device development. This blog is about finding inspiration for your work as summer […]
Our Optics experts and manufacturing leaders met to identify lessons learned and tips from recent projects involving optics handling during manufacturing, prototyping and transfer to manufacturing. This blog features their tips and lessons for handling optics during the manufacturing process.
Two new medical device commercialization blogs and authors joined our 2019 “most read” list. Regulatory and electrical engineering articles tied for most popular topic (4 each), followed by biotech and supply chain. Many thanks to our employee authors past and present for their contributions to medical device excellence.
Have you watched our 10 most viewed medtech videos in 2019? StarFish Medical videos help viewers learn about medical device design, development and manufacture. They are also a great way to get a better sense of the people you will be partnering with when you work with StarFish.
We asked our development and commercialization experts to share their top medical device commercialization lessons and tips based upon actual medical device development and commercialization experiences. Their recommendations cover projects from working at StarFish as well as other medical device organizations. Many include links to blogs with additional information. Here are 10 ideas to increase […]
EMC (Electromagnetic compatibility) compliance is an essential requirement for all electronic medical devices. Usually, designers partner with EMC labs (certified testing) facilities in order to assess device compliance. In this blog members of the StarFish Electrical Engineering team share tips for a productive and successful assessment during your EMC lab visit.
An alpha device may look like it’s finished, but it’s not a medical device. A basic principle of medical device commercialization is that even though an alpha device looks like it’s finished – cool housing, looks like a device – it’s not a medical device until it passes regulatory standards and receives regulatory clearance, after […]
StarFish Employees share their favorite activities To celebrate the summer solstice, StarFish employees shared their summer plans and favorite warm weather activities. Spoiler alert: There’s definitely a theme in this place…
Improve your medical device innovation process Everyone has a mental toolkit of innovation – a series of patterns that innovative people find. They take something and they break it into pieces or they take pieces and put them together or they put things upside down or they hollow them out or they turn them inside […]