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Virtual Engineering Days Program Unveiled The three-day digital conference and exposition for plastics, packaging, and manufacturing professionals will take place on June 15-17, 2021. May 27, 2021 Informa Markets – Engineering announced that Virtual Engineering Days, an all-new digital conference and exposition for plastics, packaging, and manufacturing professionals to gain new insights and connect with suppliers, will take place on June 15-17, 2021. The digital event will feature mor...

An annual engineering event held by the Peoria Riverfront Museum is taking a new approach during the COVID-19 pandemic. The normal “Engineering Day” special has been changed to a week-long virtual event featuring free at-home activity kits and daily Zoom workshops, beginning this Sunday. Museum science curator Renae Kerrigan said the plan emerged from a brainstorming session with past sponsors on how to hold the event without having people in the building. “(We) came up with this idea of...

Attendees of the Virtual Engineering Week keynote, “Mayo Clinic 2030: Hospital of the Future,” got a glimpse of healthcare’s future. Mark Wehde, chair, Mayo Clinic Division of Engineering, explored the increasing digitalization of healthcare and how it could lead to more patient-centric care. Mayo Clinic’s 2030 Bold Forward plan is one such effort. “The plan recognizes that digital transformation is the key to our future, and digital platforms will be crucial to enable us to provide b...

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Additive manufacturing helped deliver an intricate design not limited by traditional manufacturing constraints. In the Virtual Engineering Week presentation, How Do You Prototype & Produce the Unmoldable?, the story of producing a difficult-to-mold consumer product using 3D printing technology was told from three perspectives—the product OEM, the component manufacturer and printer, and the 3D printing technology supplier. Gage Cut...

Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay Medical device companies can make a difference when it comes to sustainability, according to a senior packaging engineer at Medtronic who spoke during Virtual Engineering Week. In the Virtual Engineering Week session, “How to Make Medical Packaging More Sustainable,” Jennifer Griffin, senior packaging engineer at Medtronic, shared her recent visit to a tranquil fishing village along the Atlantic in Massachusetts. She s...

Informa Informa’s Virtual Engineering Week took a deep dive into the impact of COVID-19 on medical technology and looked at the future of manufacturing. Virtual Engineering Week, an all-new virtual event connecting the global medtech, automation, design, packaging, materials, plastics & sustainability, and product development communities, took place from November 30 – December 4. Organized by Informa Markets – Engineering, the producers of ATX, D&M, MD&M, PACK,...

And with that, I ask the question for which this post is named: “Can design controls accelerate medical innovation?” While this question may seem out of place, there is logic to it. This logic is based on a 20-year observation brought to into focus with 2020 vision. Innovation begins at the fuzzy front end of design, so that is where this journey begins. From this vantage point we can see significant hurdles. They are in front of us, and we clearly see them. We know that one day, down the r...

In Pursuit of More Sustainable Packaging Solutions Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay Medical device companies can make a difference when it comes to sustainability, according to a senior packaging engineer at Medtronic who spoke during Virtual Engineering Week. In the Virtual Engineering Week session, “How to Make Medical Packaging More Sustainable,” Jennifer Griffin, senior packaging engineer at Medtronic, shared her recent visit to a tranquil fishi...