Healthcare innovation services

Each service is tuned to deliver optimal added value from the first phase of the innovation process – predevelopment - up to and including industrialization and supply chain development.

New product and system development

Turning ideas into breakthrough products with differentiating features requires design and engineering experience combined with a focus on end-user and business requirements. We create a ‘best-fit solution’ in line with your technology roadmap, Intellectual Property ownership, and cost- and lifecycle expectations. Examples are a lab-on-a-chip platform, optical sensor devices, medical laboratory equipment, imaging systems and tele-healthcare for cardiac patients.

Cost-down development and productization

It is a challenge to successfully manage an innovation through the consecutive phases of a product lifecycle. For instance, after market introduction the challenge is with cost down and maintaining unique selling points (featuring). We have over 40 years’ experience in supporting Philips and other market leading companies with cost-down development and productization.

Quality and reliability support

Design for industrialization means turning functional designs into manufacturable products with high reliability and low field-call rates. We offer quality and reliability as a total service and as specialist support, for instance in an urgent trouble shooting context. However, we prefer to take quality and reliability as an integral element of technology and component choice, supply chain development, manufacturing, testing and product verification and validation. Thereby, we prevent any quality and reliability issues what so ever.

Prototyping for industrial release

There is only one way to ensure a smooth transition from a proven concept prototype to a manufactured product. That is to do prototyping for industrial release. Such a prototyping approach requires in-depth design rule expertise as well as careful attention to the future supply chain requirements and constraints. To achieve such first-time-right prototyping, we integrate physical, fluidic and mechanical modeling techniques into a know-how infrastructure enabling us to verify designs and guarantee the quality and reliability of new functionality and products.

Small volume supply

For new medical devices and systems, the initial volume requirements may be small, from just 100 up to several thousands annually. This in view of (pre) clinical testing and approval procedures or because of the characteristics of the niche market involved. For such supplies you can rely on our in-house state-of-the-art manufacturing and test facilities for medical electronics and assembly. We offer you the full potential of a ‘one stop shop’ service capability.

Industrialization support

To ensure lowest cost whilst meeting time-to-volume and quality objectives our industrialization consultancy support helps create a transparent, reliable and lean supply chain. We also have the competences to streamline manufacturing processes, i.e. design for Six Sigma, statistical engineering.