Sam Brusco, Associate Editor03.15.18
Rising regulatory focus on quality control for manufacturing plants, as well as on further safety, testing, and reporting measures necessitates advanced testing equipment and instrumentation in both manufacturing facilities and laboratories. As demand for excellent quality and standard products increases across the medical device industry, medical device manufacturers are expected to run an increasingly rigorous battery of tests to ensure a product’s safety and efficacy, among other factors. And sometimes, the resources necessary to run these tests aren’t within manufacturers’ realms of possibility in terms of the cost or time spent running the tests.
“When doing testing in-house, you have to keep in mind the initial cost of the equipment, the cost to maintain and calibrate the equipment, and the cost to retain people with the technical expertise to run the equipment and perform the testing,” advised Corey Hensel, general manager at DDL Inc., an Eden Prairie, Minn.-based full-service testing lab that provides package, product, and materials testing to the medical device industry.
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“When doing testing in-house, you have to keep in mind the initial cost of the equipment, the cost to maintain and calibrate the equipment, and the cost to retain people with the technical expertise to run the equipment and perform the testing,” advised Corey Hensel, general manager at DDL Inc., an Eden Prairie, Minn.-based full-service testing lab that provides package, product, and materials testing to the medical device industry.
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