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Medical device industry professionals share their thoughts on the last 12 months and discuss the sector’s prospects for a fresh start in 2012.
Michael Barbella
As OEMs and suppliers do a mating dance, following the right steps goes a long way toward forming a good working relationship.
Jim Stommen
Being proactive is the best approach when dealing with the FDA.
Mark Crawford
Trepidation over healthcare reform and sluggish sales are prompting medical device firms to look overseas for long-term growth.
Michael Barbella
Tubing manufacturers face constant pressure from OEMs to push the limits of wall thickness, strength and performance.
Mark Crawford
In the OEM-supplier equation, evaluations work both ways and are equally important to successfully targeting the right relationship.
Jim Stommen
Emerging markets offer medical device companies a wealth of opportunity, but there are local nuances that must be tackled and tamed before a new product is designed.
Aidan Petrie and Jessica Willing-Pichs
The MPO Symposium returns to Massachusetts with a strong agenda designed to address today’s evolving medtech outsourcing model.
Global cost pressures and mounting competition is prompting the medical device and pharmaceutical industries to bury their long-standing rivalry and work together to foster innovation.
Michael Barbella
Fifth annual AdvaMed conference emphasizes the medtech industry’s value to patients and the global economy.
Michael Barbella
Assembly operations continue to evolve toward automation.
Mark Crawford
Medical device and life-sciences manufacturing clusters are surfacing in the most unconventional places, leaving traditional healthcare strongholds to rely on little more than their reputations for survival.
Michael Barbella
Top-down push is an important factor in keeping Lean/Six Sigma initiatives fresh in workplaces of medical device contract manufacturers.
Jim Stommen
Exploring the trend from non-sterile to sterile medical devices.
Kelly Lucenti
Modest expansion and the search for international growth markets characterizes this year's roundup of the largest medical device firms.
A look at four growing medtech firms with long-term potential. These companies are positioning themselves with cutting-edge technology portfolios in growth markets.
Prototyping and production are now integrated to the point of being separate stages of the same discipline. Here is how medical device OEMs can leverage those trends.
Erik Swain
More function, better looks, less cost: Medical device designers must merge aesthetics, performance and efficacy.
Mark Crawford
Advanced molding technologies create more options for keeping OEMs satisfied.
Mark Crawford
Experts debate the merits of manufacturing partnerships at second Medical Product Outsourcing Symposium in Costa Rica.
Michael Barbella
The sterilization and packaging sector sees demand for its services increasing, along with an escalation of customer needs
Jim Stommen
The biotechnology industry promises to revolutionize healthcare through disease prevention, gene therapy and advanced diagnostics.
Michael Barbella
Industry executives discuss the issues, obstacles and opportunities in tackling the full-service outsourcing puzzle.
Christopher Delporte and Michael Barbella
For the medical products industry, certain sectors may offer relief from the economic travails of the past few years.
Jim Stommen
OEMs are requiring contract manufacturers (CMs) and suppliers to do more testing on their own at all levels of the supply chain.
Mark Crawford
A globalized market and cost-conscious OEMs are forcing vendors to find innovative ways of remaining on their customers’ shrinking list of preferred suppliers.
Michael Barbella
While the IVD industry has not been crippled by the slow economy, it is under some cost pressures, which the right outsourcing decisions can help alleviate.
Erik Swain
Software platform technology and other time-saving techniques can boost IVD innovation and reduce development time.
Frances Cohen
Investing in the right software keeps you on the leading edge of productivity and compliance.
Mark Crawford
The MPO Symposium returns to Costa Rica, exploring international manufacturing opportunities and building relationships.
Matching product needs to supplier capabilities and anticipating variables is key to successfully navigating this difficult discipline.
Erik Swain
Demands for smaller, more durable medical devices are prompting engineers and scientists to turn to the natural world for solutions.
Michael Barbella
Testing is becoming more challenging for both suppliers and OEMs.
Mark Crawford
Using a variety of methods, insert molding can improve the performance of individual parts and increase reliability.
Ken Desrosiers
Getting the CE mark is just the first step in a not-so-simplified process of doing business in a market that is facing its own set of challenges.
Jim Stommen
Electronic manufacturing services providers are pushed to increase services and lower costs.
Mark Crawford
Medical device OEMs in need of complex, detailed parts manufactured quickly, precisely, and accurately, increasingly are turning to laser-based processes.
Erik Swain
Better focus on the user environment and device functionality during the R&D process is key to successful product development.
Michael Barbella
The use of the International Trade Commission’s “Section 337” can be a powerful tool to protect medical device firms’ intellectual property.
Gary M. Hnath
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