Blog: Microfluidic Cartridge Design for an IVD System
Hochuen in China can help you put your ideas into reality when it comes to Microfluidic Cartridge Design and device development. It also includes cartridge and instrument integration.
Microfluidic Cartridge Design is vital for the creation of an entire IVD system, where ease application, throughput, and pricing per test are all important considerations. This is especially the case for POCT (Point of Care Testing) aspects, where the cartridge also serves as a user-friendly hardware interface.
The Beginning
By specifying important user interactions, Hochuen, Medical has developed the microfluidic cartridge design ahead of the integration of the instrument. It provides for ultimate design flexibility, resulting in a simpler and effective design concept. The development of IVD instruments can sometimes outpace the development of consumables.
This can be costly and time-consuming for the manufacturers, as it often necessitates a redesign and subsequently adds complexity. It leads to lower manufacturing yields and higher costs of production. This is where Hochuen’s strategy of integrating all of the commercial elements surfaces as the cartridge design can pay rich dividends.
Designing for People
The disparity between a great and a terrible product can be determined by usability engineering. Considering the user environment and various diagnostic tests that users are capable to undertake can help developers create microfluidic cartridge designs that are simple and convenient to use.
User testing can give important information about the cartridge's design. What appears to be simple to an expert can be extremely confusing to a regular user. It's crucial to consider user interactions early on when microfluidic cartridge design is in progress. User insights, for instance, can help determine the ideal approach to construct a sample entry port or simple ways to notify that the user has suitably filled the cartridge.
Simple things like having a clear and user-friendly approach to place a custom label can separate an easy-to-use design and one that is made complicated without any reason. Even for systems that are not attempting to attain CLIA Waiver and considering about ease of use in a POCT environment can help design a better product altogether.
Product Design and Cartridge on the Same Platform
Customers intending to design a POCT system benefit from Hochuens's exceptional grasp over Point of Care product innovation, which comprises device and instrument, cartridge, and cartridge assembly procedures and range of equipment. The following features can prove the point:
· Risk Identification during Assembly Process: Based on the microfluidic cartridge design, one can get significant insight into prospective hazards connected with cartridge assembly procedures, as well as opening the door for proper solutions to manage such risks.
· Logical Application of Complexities and Benefits: The designer may assist the stakeholders to make decisions of adding complexities and contemplate the related risks and benefits by simply looking at the microfluidic cartridge design system with an open approach.
· Handling Technical Challenges: An ideal microfluidic cartridge design developer can help you establish and implement a technical design risk response plan, as well as come up with creative ideas to solve specific technical problems.
· Bringing About Cost-Effectiveness and Production-Driven Strategies: Besides, a professional microfluidic cartridge design developer can assist the users to reduce cartridge costs at various production levels together with planning and implementing a production scale-up strategy that would invariably balance capital investment and projected production demand. It is based on proven experience that brings about automation for a large volume of production.
· Capacity to Handle Low Volume of Production: A perfect designer has the capability, as well as the assembly and metrology equipment inventory and knowledge to support high-volatility development phases that can deal with low-volume cartridge manufacturing.
Conclusion
Hochuen in China has all the necessary in-house expertise concerning microfluidic cartridge design to develop both the cartridge and the instrument. This gives the project team total visibility over the entire development graph. It is critical for delivering the best solution in the shortest amount of time with minimum repetitive efforts.
