1st November 2012

Designworks: November Member of the Month

Designworks is a creative hub that brings together distinctive areas of expertise to create original, industry leading solutions. We work in a wide range markets, allowing us to cross pollinate design and production techniques into otherwise unconsidered areas. Always aiming for the protectable intellectual property goal of exclusivity and originality.

The unique nature of Designworks means that the stages of our process blend together seamlessly, with designers, prototype makers, engineers, production specialists and strategists working under one roof.

At the core of our brand is creativity – something that runs through the business, from the projects undertaken, to the staff and the environment they work in. It is this strength that our clients buy into, and that Designworks will continue to promote and develop.

The business provides end-to-end capabilities, giving our clients a fully integrated and flexible innovation service that discovers the market possibilities and brings them to life. Importantly, the ability to take ideas from sketch or proposition and make them tangible is something that makes Designworks more of a unique, development partner for its clients.

We’ve created three branches to our creative hub:

• The Discovery Space is where the initial creative work happens – markets are researched, insights and trends gathered and business strategies are developed. It is here that conceptual design takes place, whether it be medical product innovation, healthcare consumables, or existing product enhancements.

• The Development Lab brings ideas to life, quickly advancing the initial design concept into something more tangible through models, prototypes and technical engineering. It is here that products are developed into workable solutions, concentrating on the physical form, functionality, method of manufacture and detailed production data.

• The Global Network is our presence across the world, particularly in the Far East, providing us with the infrastructure and expertise to take propositions from design and into production. Delivering parts, or completed, quality tested products to any destination.

 

Sectors:

Healthcare and Scientific, Industrial Products, Transport, Luggage and Accessories, Point of Sale Display, Structural Packaging, Retail, Consumer Products, Toys and Games.

 

Services:

Consumer Research, Ergonomics, Trend Analysis, User Experience Mapping, product Design and styling, Model and Prototype Making, User Testing, Manufacturing Set Up and Liaison, Short Run / Batch Manufacture, Test and Regulatory Affairs Management, Technical Research and Analysis, Mechanical Engineering, Production Engineering

 

Recent work:

Design works are currently working with MediWales member Asalus on three exciting projects (see images) . The new Snug-Port, the Sure-hold Manipulator, and the most complicated of the three, a ground breaking new electrosurgical device called Innervision.

The Innervision device has been designed to remove particulate matter produced during laparoscopic electrosurgical procedures, as an aid in maintaining a clear visual field. It does so by the electrostatic precipitation of particulate matter generated within the peritoneal cavity.

Modern laparoscopic surgery rarely utilises simple cutting devices such as scissors or scalpels. As a result, more advanced technologies have been developed – namely electrocautery, diathermy and ultrasonic (Harmonic) scalpel. Regardless of the choice of electrosurgical cutting instrument, smoke is created when these devices are used in surgical procedures.

Surgical smoke can obscure (partially or totally) the surgeon’s view of the operative field and this has obvious safety implications.

 

InnerVision device USPs:

• It rapidly and effectively clears the visual field without the need for dedicated access ports or instrument withdrawal and reinsertion.

• It involves no ongoing carbon dioxide exchange or gas flows over the tissue, minimising tissue drying which is a known and widely recognised cause of tissue adhesions.

• The sparing use of carbon dioxide compared with vacuum based systems minimises patient cooling, acidification and hypoxia.

• It avoids the need to desufflate and re-insufflate the patient which increases both procedure duration and time under anaesthetic.

• One time use procedure pack offering excellent value per operation.

 

Main contacts:

jez@designworkswindsor.co.uk
robin@designworkswindsor.co.uk
Tel+44 (0)1753 842 404
www.designworksgroup.net