Flex

Flex is a global design development and manufacturing organisation that partners with medical and pharma companies, to bring technologies in connectivity, sensors, miniaturisation and others, to new product design and manufacturing, to deliver medical quality at large scale.

Headquarters
Flex Ltd
6201 America Center Drive
San Jose
CA 95002
United States

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T: +1 408 576 7000

Articles by Flex

RETHINKING PLASTIC: HOW ECO-FRIENDLY DESIGN IS DRIVING SUSTAINABLE CHANGE

Giorgio Sardo discusses sustainable material selection and the results of tests comparing the performance of sustainable bio-based plastic resins with their fossil-based equivalents.

Stefano Vicenzetto

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN FOR MEDICAL DEVICES

How do you meet environmental and sustainability objectives when designing medical devices? And what design considerations enable the technical cycles, known as the 4R loops of circular economy: reuse, repair, remanufacture and recycle? Stefano Vicenzetto explores the Flex approach to design for environment for medical devices.

INJECTING THE FUTURE

Simone Farina discusses Flex’s new smart autoinjector platform for the healthcare market, designed to enable original equipment manufacturers to accelerate time-to-market, reduce costs and boost reliability, while ensuring patient compliance.

Salvatore Forte

VOICE-ACTIVATED USER INTERFACES IN DRUG DELIVERY DEVICES CAN ENHANCE COMPLIANCE AND OUTCOMES

Salvatore Forte looks at the evolution of voice-activated interfaces in medical devices, particularly autoinjectors, and the advantages for patient compliance and quality of care.

USING SIMULATION AND MODELLING VERSUS PROTOTYPING FOR MEDICAL RADIO FREQUENCY DESIGN

Enrico Denna looks at the advantages of a simulation and modelling approach over prototyping for the design of medical products.

Salvatore Forte

SENSOR ADVANCEMENTS IN DRUG DELIVERY IMPROVE COMPLIANCE

Salvatore Forte discusses various advancements in sensors that are transforming drug delivery systems, making complex devices more automated, easier to use, and improving patient compliance as a result.

Dr Juan Nogueira

CHOOSING THE RIGHT CONNECTIVITY FOR DRUG DELIVERY AND MEDICAL PRODUCTS

Juan Nogueira; Tommaso Borghi and Marco Vergani discuss the factors that need to be taken into account in the selection of connectivity technology for a drug delivery device or other medical product.

THE ROAD TO PREFILLED DEVICES IN NOVEL COMBINATION PRODUCTS

Lior Shtram discusses three approaches to delivering novel combination products – user-filled, user-loaded and prefilled – through the lens of sterilisation processes and requirements at the industrial manufacturing scale.

THE NEED FOR A RELIABLE SUPPLY-CHAIN & HOW TO CREATE IT STRATEGICALLY

Antonio Teglia and Devon McCrossin discuss the increased importance of proper supply-chain management when it comes to mitigating the inherent production risks of today’s increasingly complex drug delivery devices.

PRODUCT SHOWCASE: FLEX DIGITAL HEALTH PLATFORM

Angela Wright discusses how the Flex Digital Health group is building the world’s first medical regulated, HIPAA-compliant, open architecture platform of connected medical devices.

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