Engineering Challenges - Page 4 of 12

20 Feb 4 Best Practices for Effective ID and ME Collaboration

Posted at 13:39h in Engineering Challenges, Med-Tech, Problem Solving, Product Design, Project Management, Quality, User Centric Design

As an Industrial Designer at Key Tech since 2012, I know first-hand how critical a multidisciplinary team is for the success of a product development program. To create truly beautiful and efficient use-experiences, an Industrial Designer within a team needs to function as a user...

05 Feb 5 Best Practices to Managing Bubbles in Microfluidics

Posted at 13:41h in Engineering Challenges, Med-Tech, Microfluidics, New Product Development, Problem Solving, Uncategorized

It feels like no matter the project, if fluidics are involved, the topic of bubbles pops back up. Lab-on-a-chip is a growing industry, and miniaturizing a fluidic system comes with a unique set of bubble challenges. When down at the microfluidic scale, a bubble has...

12 Dec Medical Device Development – Every Challenge is a Tough Challenge

Posted at 16:15h in Engineering Challenges, Video

Working in medical technology product development, we understand the need to work towards making things better. The universal goal of our team, our clients, and the end users of our products is improvement. Whether it’s relieving pain, making treatment adherence easier to remember, or to...

11 Dec The Future of Product Development

Posted at 14:20h in Business, Culture, Engineering Challenges, Med-Tech, Microfluidics, Problem Solving, Product Design, Project Management, Quality, Staff, User Centric Design

To say the world moves faster every day seems like the ultimate cliché. Haven’t generations upon generations made this same observation? We stand in the present, looking back upon times when the technology felt slower, progress more relatable, and looking forward, we feel an acceleration,...

27 Nov How Key Tech Innovates with Quality in Mind

Posted at 18:40h in Engineering Challenges, Problem Solving, Product Design, Project Management, Quality

At Key Tech it is our nature to be creative and think differently. This is how we find the solutions to the toughest technical challenges. Innovation is at the heart of the product development work we do. We just understand that this must be done...

03 Oct Cool It! Full Scope Development of a ‘New Technology’ Med-Device has Key Tech Feeling Chill

Posted at 19:29h in Engineering Challenges, Problem Solving, Product Design, Project Management

CoolTech LLC, a med-tech startup in Baltimore, approached Key Tech with an interesting proposition; could we help them develop their new CoolStat ™ device, used to lower body temperature in patients that have stubborn, unresponsive fever? Their device would cool the patient using nothing but...

11 Sep Challenges Associated with Integrating Microfabricated Chips in Diagnostic Systems

Posted at 16:15h in Engineering Challenges, Microfluidics

Smaller devices, desirable for so many practical reasons, enable use at the point of care, and in certain cases, at home with the patient, or out in the field, when used in lab-on-a-chip devices. These devices are growing in demand in the market, as is...

31 Jul Understanding Our “Why”: A 20 Year Look Back and Look Forward @ Key Tech

Posted at 19:09h in Business, Engineering Challenges, Problem Solving, Product Design

Are engineers, programmers, physicists and designers born or are they crafted? Is it the unquenchable curiosity about how things work that defines us? Is it the innate passion for taking things apart, figuring out what makes them go, putting them back together, making them better,...

06 Jul The Bubble Challenge Part II : Minimizing the Risk of Bubbles

Posted at 13:51h in Engineering Challenges, Problem Solving

Here's a truism about medical devices: It's impossible to design an application that handles fluids and expect not to have to address the trouble with bubbles. They're a bit like taxes: They're unavoidable, but with advance planning you can minimize the impact. This is the second...

25 May The Bubble Challenge Part I: Finding the Trouble with Bubbles

Posted at 14:26h in Engineering Challenges, Product Design

Last December, the FDA issued a Class I recall for the Alaris Pump module, which delivers medicine intravenously into a person's body. A Class I recall is issued in situations where a malfunctioning device could cause injury or death to a person. The problem with the...