Teleflex Medical OEM, a specialist in diagnostic and interventional catheters, has launched a new customer solution centre (CSC), in Limerick, Ireland.
Teleflex Medical OEM said it has created an environment that enables higher levels of innovation and collaboration for the development of catheters.
Working with customers, the CSC team said it will focus on user needs, design for manufacturability, reducing technical risk, cost control, and accelerating speed to market.
Research indicates that 60% of a product’s cost is committed by the design phase.
In order to contain these costs, the CSC team will utilise a structured, nine-step process that includes quick-turn concept development, design for manufacturability, and demonstrative prototypes as aids to clarifying catheter concepts.
The group has a proprietary database of catheter design elements and their contributions to a device’s performance.
Decisions on a new device’s attributes can be data-driven and performance tested to eliminate guesswork and extended periods of trial and error.
According to a statement from the company, "the CSC is a best-in-class facility that is an epicenter for innovative catheter design".
Branching out from a central core are concept development rooms where ideas can be brainstormed, an engineering area for transforming ideas into products, a video conferencing center to promote efficient communication, and well-equipped laboratories for 3D printing, demonstrative prototype development, and device testing.