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Zimmer Titan

Client: Zimmer Biomet

Objective: Design for manufacturing to allow the company to rethink manufacturing process, decrease piece-count, and rearrange components within system for ease of manufacturing, while also modernizing the aesthetics to fit in modern operating room.

Activities

Performed Market Research to identify opportunities for improvement in use, and design, as well as competitors
Involved Industrial Design and Mechanical Engineering early to best balance the design inputs with manufacturability and cost inputs
Involved their Contract Manufacturer in the development process to helps us understand their restraints, and in turn engineer and design in a way that maximizes manufacturability
Performed Internal Plastics engineering, and Internal Chassis engineering

Zimmer engaged with Goddard to redesign their legacy tourniquet system used during surgical procedures. A team of Goddard’s industrial designers, and mechanical engineers were tasked with a complete redesign of the system’s exterior; the legacy system had been lagging in sales, and sellers had informed Zimmer that the design did not fit in with the layout of modern operating rooms.This effort aimed to modernize the Titan’s appeal and improve its usability, with the ultimate goal of boosting sales.

Goddard modernized the system’s usability, creating a product with a large touchscreen user interface. The team re-imagined the system’s handle after learning that the device was rarely being lifted on its own. We also implemented design and engineering modifications to the exterior surfaces of the system to improve manufacturability.

Results

Commercialization by the client, as engineering and designed by Goddard
Improved operator use by allowing for a more prominent Graphic User interface
Improved operator use, and ease of relocation by designing system to be mountable on IV pole and/or horizontal surface
Improved operator use, and ease of relocation by incorporated a carrying handle into design
Improved operator use by designing surface for ease of cleaning

More Work

The Goddard team excels at engineering, and designing products that combine functionality, marketability, and manufacturability. From surgical devices, to biotech breakthroughs, this is a small sample of the projects we’ve been a part of.

Janus G3

Client: Perkin Elmer

Objective: Refresh a legacy life science workstation for usability, scalability, and branding

Activities

Research and Development into use case and ergonomics of historical devices, and competitive products to evaluate opportunities
Identified opportunities for improvement in design, cost, manufacturability…

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Zimmer A.T.S.® 5000 Tourniquet System

Client: Zimmer Biomet

Objective: Design for manufacturing to allow the company to rethink manufacturing process, decrease piece count, and rearrange components within system for ease of manufacturing, while also modernizing the aesthetics to fit in modern operating room.

Activities

Performed Market Research to identify opportunities for improvement in use, and design …

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F-50 Gas Vent Filter

Client: Smiths Medical

Objective: Return Smith’s Medical blood gas vent/filter back to market, with minimal impact to previous manufacturing process.

Activities

Detailed failure mode analyses
Tolerance analysis
Addressed molding-related component and feature failures …

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Guard NPseal Negative Pressure Wound Therapy

Client: Guard Medical

Objective: Engineer and design an innovative, wearable surgical dressing with an integrated pump that establishes and maintains negative pressure with a few pinches. The goal being, to use Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) to improve healing and reduce Surgical Site Infections after surgery while providing savings to the healthcare system

Activities

Performed Design Development from alpha prototype to be ready for manufacturing
Design for joining of elastomeric components …

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