A concurrent engineering approach for the development of medical devices

Das, Sanchoy K.; Almonor, Jean Benoit

doi:10.1080/095119200129984

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“…This characteristic can cause a huge impact in the result depending on the type of product. For medical devices and AT, one product can have many users with different needs (Das and Almonor, 2000;Shah, Robinson and AlShawi, 2009;Martin et al, 2010), so is very important to know who they are beforehand. Different from traditional methods, if the development team uses UCD tools during the product development process, the tendency is that the focus is on the user.…”

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User Stories Method and Assistive Technology Product Development: A New Approach to Requirements Elicitation

Zacharias¹,

Campese²,

Santos³

et al. 2019

Proc. Int. Conf. Eng. Des.

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Requirements elicitation for assistive technology (AT) product development must be collaborative and systemic. This process must ensure that the needs of all different users are identified. For this, UCD methods introduce different tools that seek user involvement and their needs identification. One method commonly used in software development is User Stories. The aim of this paper is to analyse the use of User Stories for requirements elicitation in an AT product development project. This method was applied with three types of users: patients, companions and occupational therapists. For the involvement of these users, the method was customized and two main adaptations were adopted: the stories were written by the development team and all user needs were identified through observations of interactions between patients and prototype. As a result, the development team was able to identify numerous product requirements to be used in later development phases. These requirements were generated by the user needs identified with User Stories. Thus, the method with necessary adaptations, was efficient for requirements elicitation in the AT product development process.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

User Stories Method and Assistive Technology Product Development: A New Approach to Requirements Elicitation

Zacharias¹,

Campese²,

Santos³

et al. 2019

Proc. Int. Conf. Eng. Des.

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“…Reference [5] proposed an attribute-driven concurrent engineering (ADCE) process for the development of medical devices. This involved the formulation of attribute drive specifications (ADS) and the attribute-driven design control.…”

Section: Medical Devices Desgnmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collaborative architecture framework for the design & manufacturing of medical devices

Aguwa

Monplaisir

2009

PICMET '09 - 2009 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering &Amp; Technology

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The purpose of this project is to develop a modular architecture framework for the design and manufacture of medical devices. This modular framework aims to incorporate design variables and criteria that are unique to the medical domain to facilitate reliable operation, easier maintenance, and faster product development time. Central to this research effort is the need for inputs from range of stakeholders. The specific goals for this effort are: to determine design criteria by collaborating with users and manufacturers of medical equipment and literature search; to translate user inputs to specific design targets; to develop a preliminary modular design framework using multi criteria optimization methods; to test preliminary modular architecture using a simple medical device such as a glucometer. The importance of the research with respect to its application in the medical arena can be very significant. With the product interaction with humans, both on the manufacturing level, and the user level, the issue of safety is paramount. Some of the other significant contributions are in the improvement of the following: product quality and reliability; product life cycle issues; an enabler for the medical community.

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“…One of the most critical issues facing medical device manufacturing today is the ability to develop new product effectively (Das and Almonor 2000). It was reported that the critical elements in effective product development are the processes and methods that facilitate interaction between diverse groups while focusing on the requirements for rapid regulatory approval (Das and Almonor 2000).…”

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Hybrid approach in prototyping functional medical safety devices: A case study

Yeong

Shyan

2008

Virtual and Physical Prototyping

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Utilisation of functional prototypes during the upstream design stage is able to shorten the product development cycle of a medical device and quicken the transfer process to mass manufacturing. Innovative synergy of conventional manufacturing techniques and rapid prototyping techniques is thus needed to fabricate functional prototypes successfully. This case study reports on the development of an automatically activated safety needle using different prototyping approaches for the fabrication of functional prototypes. The approaches include rapid prototyping, computer numerical control (CNC) machining and vacuum casting. The challenges of each technique are discussed and solutions are presented. A hybrid technique involving CNC machining and vacuum casting is adopted to fabricate the prototypes. This hybrid prototyping approach was able to expand the choices for materials to fabricate the prototypes and thus enabling the validation of the design mechanism in a shorter time.

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A concurrent engineering approach for the development of medical devices

Cited by 23 publications

References 2 publications

User Stories Method and Assistive Technology Product Development: A New Approach to Requirements Elicitation

User Stories Method and Assistive Technology Product Development: A New Approach to Requirements Elicitation

Collaborative architecture framework for the design & manufacturing of medical devices

Hybrid approach in prototyping functional medical safety devices: A case study

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