Challenges and Opportunities in Designing Enabling Tech Instrumentation

Enabling technologies are redefining the competitive landscape in orthopedic surgery but also place high demands on the engineers who must create components with tight tolerances needed for pinpoint accuracy. In this session, learn how OEM and supplier teams collaborate early in the design process to complete prototyping cycles and comprehensive testing of planned parts, and work together to find an effective balance between manufacturability and speed-to-market.

The expert panelists will discuss how process validation has become a major bottleneck in development and what can be done to effectively manage the process. Whether you’re building robotic-assisted, navigation or implant positioning systems, you’ll head home from this session with a clear idea of what it takes to build instrumentation for enabling technologies of the future.

Session speakers represent OrthAlign, Smith+Nephew and Elos Medtech.

Key Takeaways
1. Understand the complexities of designing and manufacturing enabling technology components.
2. Learn strategies to balance manufacturability with speed-to-market.
3. Hear how leaders in the space have overcome development and manufacturing bottlenecks.