Dec 5
The Forgotten Art of Tolerancing
Modern education seems to be leaving behind a crucial lesson: Tolerancing
After speaking recently with budding young engineering students, I was pleased to hear that many get consistent access to engineering technology in their high school and undergraduate programs. It’s fantastic that hands-on exposure to tools such as 3D printers are becoming more common. That is translating into the impressive quality of students we see apply every semester. However, despite all this hands-on experience, there is clearly one skill that these short-term design projects aren’t teaching: effective tolerancing.
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Our top 2020 medical device development videos include 6 new videos. They join favorites from previous years and cover subjects including 2020 updates, COVID implications for research and POC devices, optimizing founder value, manufacturing for NPI, IVD insights, and working at StarFish. 
Three new medical device development blogs and two new authors joined our 2020 “most read” list. Regulatory edged out electrical engineering articles as the most popular topic. Many thanks to our employee authors past and present for sharing their insights and experience with medical device colleagues.
The value of qualitative research in a highly regulated industry
Congratulations! You’ve conceptualized and prototyped a functional medical device that will improve the lives of countless others!
Waste in manufacturing drives up product costs affecting both short term profitability and the long-term adoption curve. 
Having overcome the challenges of transferring a product design into manufacturing, it is time to enter a new process cycle. At this stage, Supply Chain Reports are essential to assess and monitor costs, processing and material flow.
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?
Rapid technological advancement is often triggered by external events such as international conflicts, political pressure, economic downturn, competitions or disease. The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered the drive for technological advancement. Scientists, engineers and innovators have risen to the challenge by doing that which they do best – designing, building and prototyping.
In this post, I’d like to share with you a toolkit that I’ve found works quite well with both my creative process and my workflow: the Jupyter notebook, and the Python/Numpy/Scipy stack.