Agenda
**Subject to change prior to show date
11:30 AM
- 5:00 PM EST
(8:30 AM
- 2:00 PM PST)
Medical Equipment Design Open
- Visit the many booths in the Exhibit Hall, chat with booth representatives, learn about new products, and more.
- Visit the Networking Lounge and interact with other event attendees.
- Visit the Resource Center and download all materials of interest.
11:45 AM
- 12:15 PM EST
(8:45 AM
- 9:15 AM PST)
This presentation will focus on how combining metal stamping with laser welding can produce precise medical device components with complex requirements through a cost-effective and efficient manufacturing process. Attendees will learn about design considerations and material characteristics, with a special focus on in-die laser welding.
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12:15 PM
- 12:45 PM EST
(9:15 AM
- 9:45 AM PST)
Medical device developers are confronted with claims that safety-critical and/or open source software is essential for such developments. This presentation addresses these claims and issues based on 1900 respondents to detailed surveys. Having brought over 20 products through the 510k process, the speaker presents a common sense and data-based approach.
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Dr. Jerry Krasner, Vice President, Embedded Market Forecasters and American Technology International
12:45 PM
- 1:30 PM EST
(9:45 AM
- 10:30 AM PST)
Medical device manufactures must balance demand for new features like advanced graphics, wireless communications, and management of patient information, while ensuring device reliability and safety, and getting their products to market in a timely fashion. We'll examine a software architecture that leverages software separation to manage the increasing complexity of software in today's medical devices and do it safely.
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Joe Fabbre, Director, Platform Solutions, Green Hills Software
1:30 PM
- 2:15 PM EST
(10:30 AM
- 11:15 AM PST)
Nanopositioning is the art and science of moving objects and performing tasks on a sub-submicron scale. It has emerged from advanced laboratory applications to become central to mission-critical industrial processes across many fields. Today we review some of the very latest enabling advancements in this burgeoning field.
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Scott Jordan, Director, NanoAutomation(R) Technologies, Physik Instrumente (PI)
2:15 PM
- 3:00 PM EST
(11:15 AM
- 12:00 PM PST)
Anesthesia used to be dangerous. Careful assessment of risks led anesthesiologists to understanding the dangers. Thought and discussion among anesthesiologists led to solution ideas to develop, study and publish. Insightful medical device corporations then turned these ideas into products that have reduced the danger of anesthesia by 99%.
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Dr. James H. Philip MEE MD CCE, Anesthesiologist & Dir Anes Bioengineering, Brigham & Women's Hos., Assoc Prof Harvard Med School, Philip Medical Ventures, Inc.
3:00 PM
- 5:00 PM EST
(12:00 PM
- 2:00 PM PST)
- Interact with Attendees and Exhibitors in the Exhibit Hall and Networking Lounge.
- Presentations available On-Demand.
