It seems that people will buy any of Apple’s “i” products. While some of this is driven by fashion, most of the craze for Apple’s products is the result of a string of exceptionally well designed products. The user delighting design of these products was...
On March 28th and 29th I attended this year’s Micro / Nano Manufacturing Conference in Boston, hosted by The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). The primary tracks this year were nano manufacturing, micro machining, micro molding, and micro metrology. Two years ago I...
Recently Jenny was the featured speaker at the University of Maryland Clark School of Engineering's Fischell Festival, as part of their Whiting Turner Lecture Series. ...
The AACC annual meeting hosts the largest clinical laboratory expo, and this year’s expo was probably the largest ever with an estimated 20,000 participants, close to 700 exhibiting companies, 2,000+ booths, and over half a million square feet of exhibit space!...
Key Tech predominately develops medical devices. About 80% of our work is electro-mechanical medical device development. The majority of the remaining 20% continues to be electro-mechanical hand-held and laboratory instruments, just not in the medical industry....
I recently watched an interesting talk given by Atul Gawande, whose book The Checklist Manifesto has reached the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list this year, talking about some interesting benefits of using a checklist and how such a seemingly insignificant and low tech idea...
What is an embedded Real Time Operating System (RTOS) and how can you best utilize it for your next development project?...
I don't learn anything new from examining a design for the 23rd time. I've checked for mistakes, but it's all based on what I already know and a few educated guesses. The only way I can learn more is by building....
While Congress will be adding a new excise tax on device sales starting in 2013, it has provided up to a 50% tax credit for qualified pre-clinical and clinical activities conducted to get devices to market, starting in the 2009 tax year....
Key Tech accomplishes prototyping by leveraging a network of approximately three dozen prototyping vendors, selecting the method and vendor based on the best match to your application. Multiple suppliers keep us current with the state of the art technologies and allow for flexibility and speed...
