Listen to the Podcast Watch Deciding what resources to staff in-house vs. outsource is a critical question every project team needs to answer. In the case that building up internal product development and engineering capabilities is where you are headed, let us share some tips around how...
Focus on The Assay to Improve Overall IVD System Development Assay performance should be the priority when developing complex cartridge and instrument systems. The Assay is King! As assays are becoming more complex, taking an “inside-out” approach to IVD System Development is optimal for project success. This...
Key Tech is proud to be named a Baltimore Sun Top Workplace for the second year in a row! Our amazing team creates new tech products in a 100 year old theater. Along with our dogs, games and fun events, the work environment helps our...
Each summer, Key Tech opens our doors to a few bright rising seniors for summer internships. This year the group represented multiple disciplines of new engineers who hailed from some of the top programs across the east coast. We treat our interns as true team...
We are thrilled to announce that Key Tech client, GenMark Diagnostics won silver for the ePlex System at the 19th Annual Medical Design Excellence Awards (MDEA). Below is a video with GenMark founder, Faiz Kayyem presenting ePlex and Key Tech leaders describing our role in...
Key Tech is pleased to announce that Jake Cowperthwaite's article "Auto-Injector Design: Managing Drug Temperature Variations" has been published in the current issue of ONdrugDelivery. Jake's article discusses the challenges of injecting high viscosity drugs due in part to their required cold storage temperature for...
A recent BBC article showcases a prototype GE MRI scanner specifically designed for neonatal infants. The MRI is in trials at Royal Hallamshire Hospital in the UK. The video in the article features an infant sling & cart designed and prototyped by Key Tech for...
In addition to our day jobs many of the staff at Key Tech put their skills to work on the weekends creating delicious home brewed beer. Since 2005 Keith Lipford’s farm in Pennsylvania has been the worksite of the Key Tech “Brew Crew”. Past brews...
Medical devices often contain built-in heating and cooling elements; diagnostic devices must comply with assay thermal protocols and therapy devices must maintain biologics at optimum temperatures. Performing quick thermal finite element analyses (FEA) on device components early in the design process can help to optimize...
Key Tech & BD - DDP 16 This is a case study that Andy Rogers co-presented on the 2016 Drug Delivery Partnerships with our client, BD. The project illustrates Key Tech's ability to translate requirements into functional electromechanical prototypes in 3 months using Lean Startup principles....