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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...

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Star 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...

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Star 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...

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Star 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...

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A 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...

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Star 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...

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Lessons 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...

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Three 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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