Home > Industry > Medical devices

Medical Devices

Example customers
Astra Zeneca
Baxter Healthcare
Bayer Schering
Covidien
De Soutter Medical
Depuy
Novo Nordisk
More...

White paper
Materials Information in Medical Device Design
Read abstract & download...

Granta and ASM International provide reference data for applications including cardiovascular implantable devices

Manage materials data, whatever your medical device application

Speed the design of new and improved devices

(View/print an overview as a PDF document, 1.1Mb)

Highlights

Implement best practice materials information management, providing traceability and guaranteeing quality for critical materials data
Provide support for quality processes such as ISO 13485 and Six Sigma
Enable systematic, rational materials selection - a decision process that is exhaustive, reproducible, and auditable

Find and re-use critical materials application knowledge, including from previously approved (i.e., 'predicate') devices – reduce time, cost, and risk in design and certification

Materials are of central importance to new product development in the medical device industry. Designers must make best use of corporate knowledge about these materials, and they need access to the right data and tools to inform decisions on selection, substitution, qualification, regulation, and bio-compatibility, and for design calculations. Granta helps you to manage and access your proprietary materials information and supplies valuable reference data tailored to medical applications. Our materials software tools help you to make better design and business decisions.

Example solutions for medical devices

Managing mission-critical data

The data that you generate in materials testing and quality assurance can be critical. You need the right data for use in design and decision-making, you need it up-to-date and accurate, and you need it deployed to designers and engineers in a secure, controlled, but easily usable manner. Quality processes such as ISO 13485 and Six Sigma demand that the quality of this data is fully understood, and that it is "traceable", so that any design decision can be audited. Granta can help. More...

Support for in-depth research

How do you find and apply materials knowledge from authoritative sources? Problems include the fact that it is scattered over many different papers, publications, and databases, that it becomes quickly outdated, and that it is fragmented - e.g., engineering property, biocompatibility, and application information are rarely found in the same source. The Cardiovascular Materials and Orthopaedic Materials data modules from Granta and ASM International solve these problems. More...

Materials selection

If you specify materials for medical applications, you may face the following challenges: How do you ensure an audit trail for your material selection? How do you conduct an exhaustive search for the most suitable materials? How do you make that search reproducible? How do you navigate the wide choice of commercially available plastic and elastomer grades? Granta has the answers with CES Medical Selector, the medical edition of our powerful rational materials selection software. More...

Relevant products

GRANTA MI for materials information management

Medical devices reference data

CES Medical Selector for rational selection of materials and processes

Granta services help you make the most of your materials information