News update: PA helps develop an innovative system to diagnose heart problems
Today's healthcare business environment is characterised by increasing competition and accelerating change, evident in many ways from new companies entering the marketplace to the ongoing revolution in technology.
To succeed in this climate, healthcare organisations need to be more innovative than their competitors, and must ensure innovations actually happen quickly and efficiently, with minimum disruption to day-to-day operations.
PA works with medical device clients to speed up the delivery of innovative products, which is essential to driving growth and profitability. In PA's UK and US technology centres we have the laboratory, CAD/CAM, clean room and build facilities needed to conceive technology, to create working prototypes rapidly and to deliver full product development.
Speed is the key to PA's service delivery
Our product and process engineering specialists are supported by the physical and human resources required to take projects beyond the early stages of development all the way through to production. We can be there, with your management team, throughout the full cycle of development, supporting the process with our broad base of scientific and management expertise.
We focus on rapid delivery because our clients need to exploit their business opportunities and resolve their problems fast. This has led PA to develop world-class risk management, rapid prototyping and technical management techniques. Our clients get the benefit of this expertise in more rapid development programmes.
Summary of PA's services and experience
Medical devices
- Market and user evaluation studies
- Industrial design: aesthetic, ergonomic and graphic
- Appearance and model development engineering
- Product engineering supported by 3D, CAD, photo-realistic imaging and analysis
- Rapid prototype production
- Design for manufacturing and assembly.
Instrumentation
- Risk assessment
- Product rescue by engineered replacement of problem components/systems
- Design for low cost and ease of use
- New technology development
- Project management of multi-source development programmes.
Segments of focus
- Clinical and immuno-diagnostics
- Blood contact devices and systems
- Genomics, proteomics and new wave diagnostics
- Critical care instrumentation
- Catheters, surgical devices
- Disposable healthcare systems
- Drug delivery systems.
Further information
For further information please e-mail: healthcare@paconsulting.com
