HS Design, Inc.

April 10-12, 2012

The University Hotel Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN

Tor Alden, of HS Design, to speak at the world’s premiere medical devices conference. The conference provides a national forum to bring together world-class medical device designers, researchers, manufacturers, and the public sector to share perspectives and innovations in medical device design.

Tor’s presentation will highlight the recent FDA draft guidance for applying human factors and usability engineering to optimize medical device design. Highlights and case studies will focus on how usability techniques are used to fulfill proper design of medical device user interfaces.

The University of Minnesota’s Medical Devices Center, part of the Institute for Engineering in Medicine, the College of Science and Engineering, and the Academic Health Center is presenting the 11th Annual Design of Medical Devices Conference.

For more information or to register click here

Understand how utilizing FERSA, front end research and system architecture, speeds up the product development path.  Tor Alden, Partner of HS Design illustrates the importance of the product development team’s understanding the environment and workflow when designing medical products.  Check out the recent article in the June 2011 issue of Medical Design magazine <http://medicaldesign.com/engineering-prototyping/research-development/role-of-fersa-0511/>

PRESS RELEASE

Gladstone, NJ, May 9, 2011 - HS Design (www.hs-design.com), a leading full service design and product development firm specializing in medical, healthcare, national security and consumer markets, has announced a major reorganization that will allow the firm to respond more quickly and effectively to the needs of its future and current clients.

Formerly the exclusive design and engineering service provider for MedPlast, a precision molder of engineered thermoplastics and elastomers for healthcare and pharmaceutical markets, HS Design is now a fully independent organization able to offer its wealth of product design and development expertise to all manufacturers of custom molded plastic and elastomeric components.

“Our decision to conclude our formal relationship with MedPlast presents an enormous opportunity not only to future clients, but also to our current client base,” said Tor Alden, Partner, HS Design.  “Although we still value our long relationship with MedPlast, we now have the ability to work with other leading molders around the globe.  This will allow us to broaden our base of molding and manufacturing partners, optimize design for manufacturing (DFM) and reduce product time to market for our clients.”

HS Design is one of the nation’s premier sources for product development, specializing in industrial design, engineering, user-interface and prototype verification leading to manufacturing.

“For over 40 years, we have been integrating insight, experience and innovation with user needs and client core competencies to develop products that offer a strategic advantage in the marketplace,” said Alden.  “Our combination of research, industrial design and engineering allows us to develop leading edge designs ranging from complex medical devices to fashion forward consumer products.  Our integration with the manufacturing community then makes it a reality.”

For more information, please visit the HS Design website at www.hs-design.com or call (908) 234-2331.

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Tor Alden of HS Design, Inc. was recently selected to serve as a judge for the Innovations 2011 Design and Engineering Awards.  Tor has been selected to serve as an Innovation Awards and the Best of Innovation Honorees judge for the past three years.  The Innovations Design and Engineering Awards program recognizes the most innovative consumer electronics (CE) products in the industry’s hottest product categories.  Innovations has become a hallmark for the best designed products in consumer technology.  Tor is excited to share his expertise in both the consumer electronics and consumer medical design sections.

HS Design, Inc. of Gladstone, NJ is proud to have supported the judging of the BMEidea 2010 competition.  This is the third year Tor Alden has participated in the selection of the 2010 competition winners.  Alden said “judging the competition remains exciting as the students apply innovative ideas to real world problems.”  The finalists will be announced at the MD&M tradeshow in NYC at 11am, June 9, 2010.

NCIIA organizes two annual biomedical engineering competitions for university students. The objectives of these competitions are to identify and recognize innovative, commercially promising medical devices and technologies developed by entrepreneurial student teams.

Teams of students working with faculty and industry mentors submit entries that are evaluated by judges drawn from academia and industry. Winning entries must solve a clinical problem; meet technical, economic, legal, and regulatory requirements; feature novel and practical designs; and show potential for commercialization. Submissions are judged on technical feasibility, clinical utility, economic feasibility and market potential, novelty and patentability, potential for commercialization and benefit to quality of life and care.

http://nciia.org/node/360

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT INSIGHT for User-Centered Design and the Medical Device Start-Up  The MDDI article by Tor Alden of HS Design focuses on the increased need for user centered design for medical start-up companies.  Click here to Download PDF of Article.

Medical Product Outsourcing  (MPO)  magazine published Tor Alden’s article highlighting the increasing importance for good design and research in medical product design.
Click here to Download PDF of Article.