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Roberto Pineda replied to the topic Risk Identification in the forum Risk Analysis for Medical Devices 8 years, 5 months ago
In personal experience, the design matrix is the most important part of the risk management analysis. The way it was done in a job I had, was by how much money the owner of the company was going to make. He always put pressure on the workers to get things done on time and just have enough quality to pass the tests required by the FDA. It was a…[Read more]
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Roberto Pineda started the topic Minutes for meetings in the forum Introduction to Design Controls 8 years, 5 months ago
Hello everyone,
I have noticed how Dr. Simon keeps pointing out to importance of taking minutes in all the meeting of the team. I never really thought of how important they are. Before this, when I was in meetings and the minutes were sent to my email afterwards, I would quickly read the minutes but with not much attention as they should get. In…[Read more]
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Roberto Pineda replied to the topic Design Transfer and Challenges in the forum Introduction to Design Controls 8 years, 5 months ago
I agree with most of the challenges mentioned above by my classmates. However I have to point out that the main two challenges(In my opinion) should be safety issues and communication problems between all the departments working on the device. 2 years ago, I did a summer internship that dealt with electric installations throughout multiple parts…[Read more]
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Roberto Pineda started the topic Making up tests for design verification and validation in the forum Introduction to Design Controls 8 years, 5 months ago
Hello everyone, I hope everything is going well.
Dr. Simon mentioned in the lecture that you during the deign verification and validation phase, the engineer is supposed to kind of “make up a test.” I am completely sure that all these tests would vary depending on the biology, chemistry and physics of the medical device, but does the FDA suggest…[Read more]
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Roberto Pineda replied to the topic Design input sources in the forum Introduction to Design Controls 8 years, 5 months ago
The whole team is in charge of launching a product to a target customer. You gotta to have certain a target customer, people who are willing to use the product. The project manager would then put together all the documents required to get the project going. However, marketing is the team in charge of delivering the message to all the “target…[Read more]
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Roberto Pineda replied to the topic Consequences Of Insufficient Design Controls in the forum Introduction to Design Controls 8 years, 5 months ago
The timeline done by the project management would be significantly changed. A poor product would bring down the credibility of the company and it would put in risk the safety of the patients (Additionally, if the project affects the person, demands against the company could arise representing loss of millions of dollars). Whenever a company…[Read more]
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Roberto Pineda replied to the topic What are Design Controls? in the forum Introduction to Design Controls 8 years, 5 months ago
The main reason why Design controls are useful is because they test the quality, liability of the product. This would make sure that the clients do no get affected in a bad way by it. On the same way, it would prevent a lot of demands against the company that produced it. For example: Imagine that a patient gets an ulna replacement of titanium,…[Read more]
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