Star Medical Device Engineer – Attitude
Engineering Department employees, 1962 (Photo credit: Seattle Municipal Archives) One of the best parts of starting a medical device company is the opportunity to build a great team. At Fractyl, I’m...
View ArticleStar Medical Device Engineer – Specification and Test Development
Technically creative product designs stoke engineering pride. Most medical device engineers are happiest when flexing their technical muscle – developing elegant mechanisms, designing clever electrical...
View ArticleStar Medical Device Engineer – Statistical Thinking
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS If you haven’t learned to fear adhesive bonds, you haven’t lived a complete medical device life. Adhesives are truly marvels of transmutation: liquids stay liquid until...
View ArticleStar Medical Device Engineer – Experimental Protocols
My colleague Chris recently noted: “the right way to do things is often a pain in the butt.” No question that most engineers see protocols as a pain in the butt – yet another file to sherpa through the...
View ArticleA Passion For Management
Lots of great individual contributors ask to become managers. They reach a point in their career where a management role seems like the next logical step up. The management path appears to offer more...
View ArticleStar Medical Device Engineer – Needs Versus Wants
I had coffee with a former colleague last week, and he told me something surprising he learned about himself. His new company has bench desking, and everyone’s space is a little less than three feet...
View ArticleLessons From @TeslaMotors – Rethinking the Role of the Dealer
Medical device companies and auto manufacturers depend on a network of dealers or distributors, to market, sell and service manufacturers’ products around the world. It’s the accepted way of doing...
View ArticleThree Steps to Better Failure Investigations
Star engineers excel at failure investigation. Full stop. We’ve been working on some really interesting failure investigations at Fractyl recently, and I always like to take a step back to learn from...
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