Design

“Our design philosophy is focused on delivering the most innovative, cost effective, creative, ergonomic and precisely engineered solutions for our customers, both medical and industrial. Our design team strive to add value to our products at all stages of the design process, from generating new intellectual property during concept development, to the design of the packaging used in production.

From a biro sketch on a napkin over lunch with a surgeon, to a cardboard model of a mechanism the "Blue Peter" way, our designers utilise a range of techniques on the journey to developing a new medical device. Of course we are also running the latest 3D CAD/CAM software and CNC machines to build fully functional prototypes in-house for verification and validation testing activities.

Cutting edge CNC machines require the best people to program and operate them - fortunately we have both, and the high tech side of our product development team is also complimented by the instrument making skills and genius brain of our founder.

On site, state of the art laparoscopic surgery simulators allow new design prototypes to be quickly evaluated by our clinical advisory board and design team. In fact, our designers are put through the same core skills surgical training exercises as surgeons, allowing them to truly immerse themselves in the role of the end user and understand how prototypes can be improved and refined.

Detailed design procedures and controls ensure that we remain compliant with the requirements of ISO 9001, ISO 13485 and FDA 21 CFR 820.30 Each new product design journey starts with a sketch and finishes with an approved Technical File that is maintained throughout the life of the product”.