Michael Barbella, Managing Editor10.22.22
There was renewed interest in workforce training this past week, as MPO's print column on digital assistants took the top spot in online pageviews.
A week after falling off the most-read list, the column by Drishti's chairman proved popular once again with cybervisitors, edging out acquisition, personnel, and clinical trial news. The column discusses the ways in which digital assistants can help improve manufacturing quality—namely, by making it easy for workers to flawlessly and efficiently build products and ensure the efficacy of the manufacturing process itself. These assistants simultaneously supplement and enhance the natural talents and capabilities of humans, and assist the augmented employee in making better and faster decisions. "By digitally augmenting workers with analytics and AI-powered video, we can get the next significant boost in ability," Dishti Founder and Chairman Prasad Akella writes.
Numbers apparently were important to MPO website guests, too, this past week. Boston-based software developer MedAcuity added two executives to its management team—Jeanne Raney as vice president of people operations and Andy Sageman as director of quality assurance—and BIOTRONIK touted positive clinical trial results for its magnesium scaffold (a mean LLL of 0.21 mm with a median value of 0.13 mm, compatible to a median LLL of 0.18 mm for new generations of DES).
Other numbers-based news that garnered cybersurfer attention over the last seven days was the 5.2% expansion of Singapore's medical device market this year, and Vance Street Capital LLC's purchase of Mountain Manufacturing Technologies (MMT). The deal will reportedly complement Wytech Industries as a strategic wire and metal tube supplier in the interventional and advanced surgical markets.
A week after falling off the most-read list, the column by Drishti's chairman proved popular once again with cybervisitors, edging out acquisition, personnel, and clinical trial news. The column discusses the ways in which digital assistants can help improve manufacturing quality—namely, by making it easy for workers to flawlessly and efficiently build products and ensure the efficacy of the manufacturing process itself. These assistants simultaneously supplement and enhance the natural talents and capabilities of humans, and assist the augmented employee in making better and faster decisions. "By digitally augmenting workers with analytics and AI-powered video, we can get the next significant boost in ability," Dishti Founder and Chairman Prasad Akella writes.
Numbers apparently were important to MPO website guests, too, this past week. Boston-based software developer MedAcuity added two executives to its management team—Jeanne Raney as vice president of people operations and Andy Sageman as director of quality assurance—and BIOTRONIK touted positive clinical trial results for its magnesium scaffold (a mean LLL of 0.21 mm with a median value of 0.13 mm, compatible to a median LLL of 0.18 mm for new generations of DES).
Other numbers-based news that garnered cybersurfer attention over the last seven days was the 5.2% expansion of Singapore's medical device market this year, and Vance Street Capital LLC's purchase of Mountain Manufacturing Technologies (MMT). The deal will reportedly complement Wytech Industries as a strategic wire and metal tube supplier in the interventional and advanced surgical markets.
