Identifying and exploiting device design opportunities

Concept development is at the core of value creation for any emerging medical device program. Proximal Design offers a full complement of services to generate device concepts and bring them to life, including:

• Project planning and management
• Design input development and validation
• Literature research and physician interviews
• Market assessment and analysis
• Brainstorming sessions
• Material selection and development
• Concept sketches, engineering drawings, and solid models
• Rapid prototyping of concept devices
• Specification development
• Test method development
• Fatigue durability assessment and optimization
• Acute and chronic in-vivo assessment
• Technical and marketing communications