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...
Reliability engineering is often thought of as an exercise undertaken when a product is far enough along to be ready for manufacturing. Conversely, it’s always helpful to ask early on: Is the promise of your technology linked to high reliability in its mature product form? ...
This week I had the privilege of speaking at the “Medical Device Innovation in Maryland” conference at the University of Maryland’s Fischell Institute. I spoke about the role of a catalyst like Key Tech, a company that in 19 years has completed more than 300...
Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, whose compositions sparked riots, once touted the benefits of working within a narrow framework. “The more constraints one imposes,” he said, “the more one frees one's self.” Constraints, he continued, can lead a designer to precision in execution. Sure, Stravinsky was talking...
My colleagues at Key Tech take great pleasure in the fact that I’ve spent years of my career designing blood testing devices, when I tend to faint at the sight of blood coming out of someone. Yet I persist. And I have learned, often the...
After building up the right process and spending quality time on a testing plan, it looks like your product is on time and under budget. But even these best laid plans often make a potentially dangerous assumption – what works in your office will work...
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...
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....