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How to Plan the Design & Development of your Medical Device | Part 1

Correct planning should be carried out to control the design & development of your medical device however, many companies fall short when it comes to their documentation and overall approach to planni...

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Haughton Design's Unique Medical Device Design & Development Process

What Makes HD Unique in Medical Device Design & Development?

What makes HD unique to other design agencies? It’s a question we regularly hear when marketing to Medical Device and Pharmaceutical prospects. We sat down with our team of design development engine...

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How to Write an Effective Design Brief

A Design Brief is essential to the start of any project. It could be as short, or as in-depth as you like however, there is an art to writing a good Design Brief. Product Design Engineer, Will, shares...

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A Medical Device Design Development Engineer using Creative & Innovative Problem-Solving Techniques for New Product Development

Creative & Innovative Problem-Solving Techniques for New Product Development

There are many toolkits available to aid with problem-solving. Design Development Engineer, Luke Brown, shares just some of the creative problem-solving tools and techniques applicable for new product...

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The design for manufacture (DFM) and design for assembly (DFA) of a medical device

DFM & DFA: The differences, benefits and how to do them?

DFM and DFA should be given consideration right at the beginning of a project and continue to be used until after a product has been manufactured. So, what do they mean? What are the differences? What...

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How to Increase the Productivity and Effectiveness of your Design Team

At HD we’re always analysing better and more efficient ways to design, develop and engineer new products and medical devices for our clients. There are several aspects that we have found to be key t...

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6 Months at Haughton Design in Review

Luke reflects on his first 6 months working as a Design Development Engineer in a consultancy developing new products and medical devices....

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6 Advantages of Developing Training Devices for Injectable Healthcare Markets

Typically, it is not possible to train people using active drug delivery devices as this requires subcutaneous or intra-muscular injection and administration of pharmaceutical drugs. To address common...

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The Human Factor

Senior Design Engineer John Harverson and Human Centred Designer Amber Davies discuss how human factors engineering (HFE) informs their work developing new medical devices at Haughton Design. ...

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Hang out with Haughton | Design Development Engineer, James

Following a successful 2021, we have expanded the team by welcoming Design Development Engineer, James McPherson. This week, James shares an introduction to himself as well as a rundown of what he's b...

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Choosing Polymer or Glass Primary Drug Containers | The Advantages and Disadvantages

Most Primary Drug Containers (PDC) are made from borosilicate glass, a material that’s been used for over 100 years. However, some PDC’s are made from polymers as changing the material and manufac...

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How to Make Your Design Process More Sustainable

Our aim over the recent years has been to reduce the volume of waste, and to close the loop, creating cradle to cradle systems for our clients. We would like to share why our Development Workflow has ...

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2021 in review at Haughton Design

Reflecting on 2021 at Haughton Design

Entering 2021, we were full of optimism. Despite it having been somewhat just as rocky as 2019/2020, we are proud of our achievements this year. Here is our reflection on 2021 at Haughton Design:...

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Sustainable Medical Device Development: Legislation, Directives, Regulation & Standards

Design Engineer, Will, sheds light on what legislation there already is regarding sustainability and, what the future holds for sustainable medical device development....

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How our Innovative Problem Solving Strategies can help you

The key to developing successful products and medical devices often begins with finding unmet needs or, identifying problems with existing devices before confirming there is a market and then developi...

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Generating and Protecting IP in New Product & Medical Device Development

A patent can provide numerous benefits outside of its primary goal which is to give the inventor the legal power to prevent or pursue others who attempt to copy, manufacture, or sell their invention w...

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