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nantmel
Hi All,
New poster here, but I've been hanging around for a while and been helped hugely by the wisdom shared on this forum!
I'm a design engineer at a medical device company currently developing plastic surgical instruments for general surgery. I've reached a bit of a mental block around how to create a measurable design input for the strength of the instruments. They are very strong, and in my mind strong enough, but their strength will not match that of the metal instruments so an equivalence justification isn't really an option. Beyond that, how can I justify any design input for what is strong enough to be safe and effective? They may be used in a variety of surgical settings so simulating an operation wouldn't really prove anything either.
There are similar (but not identical) products on the market already, so other companies must have found a way round this, but it's really left me scratching my head.
Any advice appreciated!
Thanks
New poster here, but I've been hanging around for a while and been helped hugely by the wisdom shared on this forum!
I'm a design engineer at a medical device company currently developing plastic surgical instruments for general surgery. I've reached a bit of a mental block around how to create a measurable design input for the strength of the instruments. They are very strong, and in my mind strong enough, but their strength will not match that of the metal instruments so an equivalence justification isn't really an option. Beyond that, how can I justify any design input for what is strong enough to be safe and effective? They may be used in a variety of surgical settings so simulating an operation wouldn't really prove anything either.
There are similar (but not identical) products on the market already, so other companies must have found a way round this, but it's really left me scratching my head.
Any advice appreciated!
Thanks