How to Deal with Changing Fluid Viscosities

Presented in English (for both European and North American audiences), French, and German

Changing fluid viscosity can have a big effect on the accuracy of fluid dispensing applications, resulting in poor process control and nonconformance with GMP regulations. Medical manufacturers of catheters, arthroscopic instruments, point-of-care diagnostics and other devices are challenged to control dispensing processes when fluids that change viscosity are involved. Traditional dispensing options include two-part metering systems with static mixing nozzles, positive-displacement dispensers and time-pressure dispensers. These methods raise a number of issues, however, that include, respectively, waste and lack of precision, maintenance and variations as the material hardens, and the need to make manual adjustments to compensate for changes in viscosity.

Originally Broadcast: November 10, 2009

Sponsored by:
EFD, Inc.

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Best Practices for Delivering Smarter Medical Devices
Join IBM medical device industry experts as they explore key trends and development techniques. Learn about important trends and predictions for the medical devices industry along with how these market changes affect product development. Experts will discuss best practices for developing smarter medical devices and how IBM Rational software can help manage the complexity of product development, product quality, and customer satisfaction, while reducing the cost of compliance. These best practices can help medical device manufacturers develop innovative health care products.

Machining Challenges in Orthopedics

Listen to experts from the financial, manufacturing, and academic sectors of the orthopedics industry discuss the hurdles that manufacturers face as they work to create more demanding devices with innovative materials, smaller features, tight tolerances, and more predictable outcomes. An interactive Q&A session will follow the presentation.

Originally Broadcast: 9/17/09
Sponsored by:
Okuma
Walter

Biocompatible Polymers for Implantable Medical Device Applications

Patients who have ever had a knee implant or worn a catheter know firsthand how implantable medical devices have become a way of life for millions. But what makes such devices compatible with the human body? How do device makers ensure that the implants they market will not be rejected by the body's immune system? In this Webcast, "Biocompatible Polymers for Implantable Medical Device Applications," panelists specializing in the science and technology of biocompatible polymer materials for implantable medical device applications will focus on materials, material structures, biointegration, and bioresorbability.

Originally Broadcast: 8/26/09
Sponsored by:
Biomedical Structures
AdvanSource Biomaterials

Developing Detection Technologies for Next-Generation Immunoassays

The performance characteristics of immunoassays are defined by how they are optimized to detect and display test results. Carefully selecting an appropriate detection method is critical to ensure the proper function of immunoassays, and the long-term manufacturability and performance of the final product. This FREE Webcast, "Developing Detection Technologies for Next-Generation Immunoassays," will examine current trends and future developments in detection technologies for immunoassays. Hosted by IVD Technology magazine, the Webcast will bring together a panel of experts from the IVD industry to review these issues and explain how common difficulties can be resolved.

Originally Broadcast: 8/25/09

Design Trends: Sustainability

Join industry experts as they explore development trends in design in this FREE Webcast, "Design Trends: Sustainability," hosted by MD&DI. Consumer industries are promoting sustainable products as market differentiators and key selling points, and application of sustainable design in the medical device industry may not be far behind. It is time for medical manufacturers to consider the sustainability of their products, packaging, and production processes. Experts will discuss what it means to be "green," and how to go about doing it. An interactive Q&A session will follow the presentation.

Originally Broadcast: 7/23/09
Sponsored by:
Micro Medical Technologies
The MedTech Group, Inc.

Deploying a Global Harmonized Quality Management Solution
This webinar will examine how a global medical device company achieved differentiated customer value through its deployment of an enterprise quality management solution. Attendees will hear how the company created a standard, robust, consistent, and easy-to-use electronic process that facilitated global use and interdivisional communication.
Originally Broadcast: 6/30/09
Sponsored by:
Sparta Systems, Inc.
Dentsply International

Risk-Based Methods for Development and Validation

FDA and international standardizing bodies continue to publish risk-based guidance documents and standards for development and validation practices. Adoption of these methods has been proven to shorten schedules, reduce compliance risk, reduce safety risk, and result in systems that are easier to maintain.

Register for this 90 minute web seminar to learn how to apply risk-based methods to:

• Assure regulatory compliance
• Improve product quality
• Reduce costs

Making Manufacturing Work More Efficiently
Rapidly changing costs, inconsistent quality, increased global competition, and new business risks and regulations are putting a variety of pressures on manufacturers and challenging their profitability. Forced to do more with less, both people and processes are running under unprecedented strain in an effort to meet customer and regulatory requirements. What's needed are ways to make manufacturing operations work more efficiently to improve the future of the business. And one way to build that future is through what SAP calls "Compliant Manufacturing Operations." It's a completely integrated - enterprise to plant - manufacturing solution that can be implemented in steps that will quickly drive customer ROI. The "Compliant Manufacturing Operations" solution provides a continuous improvement framework to improve quality, ensure compliance at a lower risk, and lower manufacturing costs.
Originally Broadcast: Tuesday, 6/23/09
Sponsored by: SAP

Total Product Lifecycle Payoff: Executing Beyond the FDA Strategy
When the FDA pushes a strategy such as total product lifecycle, medical device companies must listen. Adopting a total product lifecycle strategy can transform how medical device companies do business, and should improve quality and efficiency, reduce risk, and cut costs. The question is: how many companies have changed their business processes or software use to manage the lifecycle concurrently and comprehensively?
Originally Broadcast: 6/18/09
Sponsored by: Dassault Systemes

Med-Tech Opportunities in 2009
An expert line-up of market analysts will assess where the most promising med-tech opportunities lie in 2009 and beyond. Highlighting where the greatest expectations of growth are in a variety of product sectors, they will review what is driving the action and what strategies companies should pursue to see them through this difficult year and position themselves for a successful 2010.
Originally Broadcast: 5/27/09

Biomaterial Trends: Preventing HACs
Join industry experts as they explore development trends in biomaterials in this FREE Webcast, "Biomaterials Trends: HACs," hosted by MD&DI. Learn about the latest technologies employed to prevent hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) such as those found at surgical sites and those introduced from beds, gowns, and other sources in hospitals. Experts will discuss Centers for Medicare Services (CMS) payment restrictions for HACs. The session will explore reimbursement issues, biocompatibility testing, and technology applications. An interactive Q&A session will follow the presentation.
Originally Broadcast: 5/27/09

Emerging Technologies Showcase
Everyone is on the lookout for "The Next Big Thing," whether it's a novel new material, a breakthrough in electronics, or virtually any development in the field of nanotechnology. Acting as a trendsetter through early adoption could not only result in a superior end product and increased profits, but better patient care as well. In this Webcast, panelists specializing in a cross-section of fields will speak about the latest technological developments primed to revolutionize the medical device industry.
Originally Broadcast: 3/31/09
Sponsored by: Gems Sensors and Controls

Developing Point-of-Care Testing Technologies for Next-Generation Immunoassays
One of the biggest growth areas in the worldwide point-of-care market will be point-of-care immunoassays, and there is growing demand for small, easy-to-use point-of-care testing systems for near-patient sites and small clinical labs worldwide. This FREE Webcast, "Developing Point-of-care Testing Technologies for Next-Generation Immunoassays," will examine current trends and future developments in point-of-care immunoassays. Hosted by IVD Technology magazine, the Webcast will bring together a panel of experts from the IVD industry to review these issues and explain how common difficulties can be resolved.
Originally Broadcast: 3/26/09
Sponsored by:
The Lee Company
Kinematic Automation Inc.

Sustainability 101: Beyond Recycling: Sustainability in a Material World
This exclusive Webcast will examine the challenges and opportunities faced by pharmaceutical and medical device companies in their efforts for sustainability from a material standpoint. Speakers will touch upon topics such as reduction in overall material use, switches to "greener" materials, new technologies to improve efficiencies from design phase to commercial manufacturing, application of Quality by Design principles to packaging, and more.
Originally Broadcast: 2/25/09
Sponsored by:
Barger Packaging Inc.
Colbert Packaging
Plastic Ingenuity
Rollprint Packaging Products Inc.

The Medtech Marketplace in 2009
In 2008, global economic concerns overshadowed all reports about the health of individual industries or their sectors. But 2009 will bring significant changes in the political and economic environment—and maybe also in the shape of healthcare systems in the United States and elsewhere. This annual event offers company leaders a chance to take stock of the trends and changes that will affect their business, so that they can make the most of their strategic decisions throughout the coming year. In this FREE Webcast, industry experts provide insights into the factors driving change in some of medtech's key sectors this year—and beyond.
Originally Broadcast: 1/29/09
Sponsored by: Sebra