Welcome to Medical Device Link's White Paper Library, a free resource designed to aid medical device professionals in research and development. Compiled from trusted industry leading suppliers and encompassing a variety of topics relevant to the design, manufacturing, and marketing of medical devices, these white papers can help you make informed decisions about your device from its conception to its completion. You can view the most recent additions to our library below or browse by topic in our category listings to the right.
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Back to Basics: Clean Digital Data Acquisition Provided by: Watlow When acquiring low data rate signals such as temperature, engineers can sometimes forget that low data rate sampling does not guarantee an uncontaminated recording. Regardless of the sample rate employed in digital ...  |
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Achieving Efficient Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Through Process and Automation Provided by: Epicor Software Now more than ever, organizations of all sizes and descriptions are struggling to comply with regulations and manage the risks and penalties of failing to operate within the rules. Establishing, maintaining and prov... |
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ERP in Manufacturing 2009: Expanding Beyond Traditional Boundaries Provided by: Epicor Software Pressures to reduce costs continue to outweigh all other business drivers impacting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in 2009. ERP has become more than a necessary infrastructure; it is also a strategic weapon in s... |
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Strategies To Run a Lean Supply Chain Provided by: Epicor Software In the last several years, the manufacturing sector has moved from vertically organized structures to horizontal organizations; that is, a single company no longer controls its product from, let’s say, the mine to... |
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Tuning ERP and the Supply Chain for Profitable Growth Provided by: Epicor Software In all companies a close link exists between information technology and an organization’s ability to execute business efficiently and effectively. This is especially true for midsize organizations, which Ventana R... |
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Five Ways ERP Can Help You Implement Lean Provided by: Epicor Software Becoming Lean has been a goal of most companies over the last few years. Why is Lean so popular? Lean delivers what companies really need in today’s highly competitive world - shorter lead times, improved quality,... |
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Gaining Competitive Advantage in a Downsized Economy Provided by: Triple Ring Technologies Proactive executives at innovative medical device development and manufacturing companies will diligently search for advances to maintain the competitive and technological edge of their products and enhance the bene... |
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Effect of Sterilization on the Mechanical Properties of Silicone Rubbers Provided by: Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics In the medical and biopharmaceutical fields, millions of silicone rubber-based tools and devices must be sterilized on a daily basis. During the sterilization process, silicone components are commonly exposed to var... |
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"In My Defense Let Me State That the Bed Was Already on Fire When I Climbed Into It" Provided by: IBM The purpose of this paper is to present the medical device developer guidelines for complying with the "suggestions" of the CDRH. Technology exists today that allows a company's current tools and processes to be ret... |
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TI's Consumer and Portable Medical Guide Provided by: Texas Instruments The Consumer and Portable Medical Guide from TI features technical and product information for a variety of medical applications, including: heart rate/fitness monitoring systems, blood glucose and other diagnostic ... |
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A New Approach to Verifying and Validating Medical Device Development Provided by: IBM The list of features in medical devices is rapidly rising: Even the simplest of medical devices—such as diagnostic and monitoring systems—house more and more system components, which add greater function... |
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Conductive Heating Technology for Medical Diagnostic Equipment Provided by: Minco The medical diagnostic equipment industry uses discrete electric heaters in many of its products to provide localized heat to enable or enhance the operation of its equipment. A simple bench test comparison of polyi... |
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ERP Software Acquisition in an FDA Regulated Environment Provided by: Fourth Shift The task of evaluating and selecting a business system that will essentially run your business and help you meet U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requirements can be a daunting project. The purpose of this wh... |
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Record Retention Management Policies: It's All in the Timing Provided by: AssurX The good news is that electronic record retention tools and technologies give firms of all types and sizes unprecedented opportunities to improve their operational efficiencies, speed products to market, make regula... |
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Create Hybrid Real-Time and General Purpose Multi-Core Systems Provided by: RadiSys Multi-core processors are providing new levels of performance and functionality while lowering overall costs for embedded systems. This new computing environment provides economies of scale by using multiple CPU exe... |
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Supplier Involvement a Major Value Driver When Choosing a Compressor or Vacuum Pump Provided by: Thomas Products Div. You're part of a team involved in developing a new machine, and among your jobs is designing the on-board compressed air or vacuum system. You've read up on the various air moving technologies, plugged in your flow ... |
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Straight Talk on WOB-L Piston Pumps Provided by: Thomas Products Div. Whether for Pressure or Vacuum, These Versatile Pumps May Be Just What You Need If you work with pressurized air or vacuum systems, chances are you've either specified or considered a pump that uses WOB-L... |
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Small Pumps, Big Considerations Provided by: Thomas Products Div. Far From Being Toys, Today's Tiny Pressure and Vacuum Pumps Demand Serious Engineering Study and Careful Application Planning Some are barely as large as your fingertip. But packed inside modern miniature... |
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Built to Handle the Pressure Provided by: Thomas Products Div. Articulating Piston Compressors Excel in the World's Most Rigorous Air-Moving Applications They've been used by OEMs and their customers since the dawn of electric-motor-driven compressors. And despite th... |
