Ximedica's co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer Aidan Petrie was in sunny San Diego this week to attend and speak at the Digital Health Summer Summit.
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For the past eight weeks, Kiely, a senior from Bay View Academy here in RI has been working side-by-side with a number of our engineering team members to more fully understand engineering as a discipline and future path of study.
Her favorite experience here was generating and ‘printing’ a 3D vise model using Solidworks and our on-site FDM machines. “They let me keep the vise model once I finished, and it came out really nice,” Kiely shares. According to one mentor, engineer Rick Piatt, “it came out perfectly, with all the components fitting together as they should.”
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The Tech Collective, Rhode Island’s Bioscience and IT industry association, hosted its first annual RI Bioscience Awards event last week – and among the five award recipients honored that night was our Director of Quality, Michelle Wu.
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The world of consumer health care differs from the medical device sphere in numerous ways – but they both share a common goal: keeping people healthy. ‘People’ can range from the already healthy to the terminally ill, but the objective remains the same.
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In the context of the consumer space, colors are typically chosen using trend analysis, analogous product research and user preference studies. Though the process is highly subjective (“I like, I feel, I want”), it helps researchers choose a color that will be successful on the market.
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With robotics on the rise in medtech today, we thought we’d highlight longstanding mentorships between Ximedica's engineers and aspiring young people in the robotics field.
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By Dean Hooper, Principal Human Factors Scientist
FDA Standard: 62366, Medical devices - Application of usability engineering to medical devices
ISO/IEC 62366 lays out a user-centered standard process that may ultimately help medical device manufacturers avoid user errors and maximize usability. Also included in the standard is a framework for the training of intended users and for the device’s accompanying documentation. It has expanded the scope of its preceding standard, which was solely for electrical medical devices (ISO/IEC 60601-1-6: Medical electrical equipment - Part 1-6: General requirements for safety - Collateral standard: Usability), to include all medical devices. The 62366 standard is often used when applying for a product’s CE marking.
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By Dean Hooper, Principal Human Factors Scientist
Product development organizations have well-established processes in assessing potential hazards for both process and design. However, these processes do not traditionally apply to use error, therefore hazard management teams tend to treat the human component of systems in a superficial, non-formal way.
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On February 21st, Ximedica participated in its fourth annual Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day (see last year's event here). The day is sponspored by the National Engineers Week Foundation, and encourages organizations to promote female participation in engineering and the sciences.
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