Improving Manufacturability by Properly Applying GD&T as an Effective Design Tool
Most modern manufacturers in all industries now employ Design for Manufacture in the design process. Efforts range from simple requests...
Dec 12 2012,
Guidance
Imaging Modality Review for Orthopaedic Clinical Research
“Garbage in, garbage out,” goes the saying. An upfront understanding of how imaging modality options best support crucial research data...
Oct 04 2012,
Do You Know Your Customer’s Boss?
Device companies, including those in orthopaedics, have traditionally recognized that their primary customer has been the physician. With the recent...
Mar 12 2012,
Raising Money for Your Medical Device Startup
Ideas by themselves are worthless. Executing on ideas takes capital. How do you go about getting this? Here are some...
Dec 14 2011,
A Surgeon’s Thoughts on Moving Forward
We recently queried our Orthopaedic Surgeon Editorial Board to learn their personal views on industry challenges. The first response came...
Dec 13 2011,
Innovation, Advanced Development, IP & Competency: Four Inescapable Product Development Trends
These four macro trends will create permanent changes that permeate R&D/product development processes and metrics....
Oct 11 2011,
How (Not) to Fail as an Entrepreneur (or R&D Engineer, Buyer, Product Manager…)
What follows is a list of things that I have personally seen lead to entrepreneurial failure in the medical device...
Aug 31 2011,
Selective Retention: The Key to Keeping the People You Want
When you lose a “clutch player,” it hurts! Not only is it demoralizing to you, but it can have a...
Dec 31 2010,
Vested Outsourcing: Game Changing Rules for Outsourcing
In Search of a Better Way to Outsource For the past two years, we have participated in a University of Tennessee...
Mar 31 2010,