Our Design Specialties
Catheter and Delivery Systems
Handles, actuation mechanisms, and control interfaces for catheter-based devices and delivery systems.
Medical Cart and Mobile Platforms
Carts, mobile consoles, and articulating mounts designed as one system with the device.
Handheld Medical Device and Handpiece
Surgical handpieces, handheld instruments, and home-use medical devices, Class I to III.
Medical Device Enclosure and Housing
Enclosures for capital equipment, consoles, portable systems, and wearables.
Define core functional requirements, study the user and use environment, and establish concept direction. This phase is limited to two weeks.
Develop selected concepts in 3D CAD as the basis for prototyping and engineering.
Build and evaluate rapid prototypes with the client team and clinical users for ergonomics, function, usability, and manufacturability.
Refine the selected concept for testing and finalize industrial design, color, materials, and finish.
Engineer all parts for manufacturing, finalize the bill of materials, qualify vendors, and complete value engineering. Deliverable: a production-ready CAD database.
Release parts and drawings to qualified vendors or HERNETICS manufacturing, test first articles, and validate color, materials, and finish. HERNETICS remains engaged through production.
HERNETICS Benefits
Product Development 2.0
Initial industrial design phase should not exceed 2 weeks. Concepts should go into 3D CAD models as soon as possible. Design phases can usually run off course with multiple design reviews of sketches and rendering exercises. Great for the firm, not so much for the client. The actual design magic happens well within the development phase with functional prototyping in hand. Most of the early design concepts are either redeveloped or destroyed in the real feasibility phases. This redundancy in the 50+ year old design process (while lucrative for the firm) is outdated, which our RAPID design process circumvents. This allows us to go on a straight line, instead of a meandering to the final design.
Innovation + Experience + Scale
Lean Process
Lean Billing
Vendor Relationships
Fun Fact
If consultancies were developing your same device but in-house as their own, the development process would be much leaner and faster than the one proposed in your quote. Do you know why?
The answer is the reason why we developed the RAPID development process.
Lean, fat free, and goals aligned.
Through our factory overseas we can guarantee lowest prices and fastest lead times for tooling and parts: injection molding, urethane casting, die casting, CNC, sheet metal, prototyping, and assembly.
Quality Control
We understand quality is the biggest concern. COA/COC is provided for all materials used, as well as FAI, dimensional and final inspection report for every part.
CMF EXPERTISE
We work with you to get each part perfect in look and feel with the most cost efficient methodology based on speed and quantity.
FULL CAPABILITIES
10+ CNC machines, 20+ injection molders, 5 EDM, 2 silicone compression, 4 die casting, laser welding, as well as X-ray spectrometer and blue light scanners for quality inspection.
NO MOQ REQUIRED
We assess your needs and choose the best methodology with no MOQ required. Our wide range of manufacturing methods can be customized based on lead time, quantity, and cost.
RAPID TOOLING
We offer the rapid tooling when your needs may be better served than conventional tooling that require high upfront cost. Smaller run medical devices benefit with this faster and more cost efficient tooling method.
RAPID TURNAROUND
Most of our clients enjoy instant quoting with under 1 week turn around on most prototype parts and 2 weeks for many injection mold parts.
TRUSTED EXPERIENCE
We have worked with our partner and other vendors for over 20 years, collaborating on hundreds of parts and thousands of features. It is also our practice to get clients competitive quotes from other vendors.
UNBEATABLE COST
Consistently the costs for tooling and parts are 30-50% less than State side vendors. No brainer in this global economy with fast delivery.
HIGHEST QUALITY
ISO 9001 & IATF 16949 certified and we inspect every step, every part with high accuracy up to 0.01mm.
DFM ANALYSIS
We provide rapid DFM analysis and development which is a whole separate development phase with other firms.
