Industrial Design Consultancy - Medical Product Design Services

Industrial Design Consultancy (IDC) is an international medical product design and development agency with over 35 years' experience formulating successful products for clients around the world. As one of the UK's largest, most established and creative product design agencies, we have been credited with many awards in recognition of our success for clients.

Our multidisciplinary team works with clients large and small to develop exciting and innovative products from concept to final production. We offer a turn-key product development service or plug-in support for specific development needs.

Medical product development services

IDC undertakes medical product development for a wide range of medical devices. Our rigorous approach and procedures for design, engineering and project management enable us to not only develop exciting products, but ensure that they meet the user's needs and comply with all relevant standards and regulations. We have a regulatory consultant for advice, submissions and certification.

We have experience with a broad range of regulatory approvals. As a medical product design consultancy, we have developed a number of Class 1 drug delivery and medical devices, as well as products meeting a variety of British Standards. We also work to European directives for CE marking classifications.

Regulatory standard consultancy for medical devices

Our project teams are fully versant in the process of meeting regulatory standards and are particularly experienced at managing projects in the highly regulated medical sector. For medical devices, we have a specialist regulatory consultant and we work with safety and performance test houses around the world to suit the needs of the project.

Our regulatory services include:

• Regulatory submissions for medical devices to CE and FDA
• Safety and performance testing to CE, Class 1, Class 2A and Class 2B
• Design history documentation
• Risk analysis
• Clinical trials support
• Product certification

Turn-key development design services

At IDC we can provide a turn-key development service, taking products from market need right through to production. Alternatively, we can support clients at any stage in the product development process and our staff are experienced at working alongside clients’ own teams to provide the specific skills that they need.

Our product development experience is extremely wide, covering sectors including medical and healthcare, consumer goods, industrial equipment and transportation.

Medical product project management

All projects have an appointed project manager, whose role is to liaise with the client and ensure all project goals are met. Our project managers are themselves experienced engineers and designers and work alongside our designers, engineers and model makers. This ensures we provide a product design service that is highly creative, efficient and tailored to our clients' needs.

Our design services include:

• Brand development
• User insight
• Concept generation
• Sustainable design
• Engineering
• Rapid prototyping
• R&D and patents
• Electronics
• Regulatory support
• Project management

Clients can take advantage of our experience and multi-disciplinary approach; with designers, engineers, model makers and project managers collaborating to ensure all aspects of services are blended and optimised for the benefit of the product. We are also experienced at supporting clients with in-house engineering and production teams, with IDC working seamlessly alongside client teams.

Benefits of using IDC:

• A full development service all under one roof
• Access to high level industrial design-skills
• Projects planned and managed in detail
• Ability to respond rapidly and integrate into your team
• In-house prototyping allows ideas to be made, tested and developed in a matter of hours
• Clients gain access to experience and expertise across many sectors and technical disciplines
• Knowledge of regulatory processes and procedures
• Successful products which are developed quickly and cost effectively

We are committed to integrating sustainable design into the design process and taking a life cycle approach to product design and development.

IDC offers first-class facilities to support its multi-disciplined team, with designers, engineers, model makers and project managers all working under one roof. This environment encourages a hands-on, collaborative approach which ensures that projects get delivered on time and to budget.

SLA machine for rapid prototyping

We are one of the few organisations in the UK with an SLA machine for rapid prototyping. IDC’s new Viper SLA offers an unrivalled level of accuracy at ±0.05mm, giving our clients and designers a near-perfect prototype direct from the CAD data in a matter of hours.

Other facilities include:

• Design meeting rooms ensuring client confidentiality
• Design studio with 22 workstations
• Engineering R&D laboratory
• Model and prototype shop
• Viper stereolithography machine for high accuracy rapid, prototyping
• Large format (1.2m x 2.4m) 3D CNC machining
• Vacuum casting laboratory
• Clean assembly area
• Paint and finishing shop