KMC360® Blog

Merrimack, NH (April 2, 2013)— KMC Systems is proud to be recognized as a developer and supplier for the LipoScience Vantera Clinical Analyzer. The Vantera product has been selected as a finalist in the IVD category of the  15^th Annual Medical Design Excellence Awards competition.

KMC Systems and Farm Product Development collaborate to get design projects off on “the right foot.”

KMC Systems values its collaborative relationships with clients, R&D organizations and engineering consultants outside company walls, viewing these unique engagements as an integral part of the medical device product development process.

Sharing ideas and resources by collaborating in “open collaboration” (OI) with trustworthy, value-added partners is increasingly becoming a necessary requirement to stay competitive, address rising healthcare costs and meet market demand for new state-of-the-art medical devices.   

KMC Systems has a lot to tweet, post and blog about this month! We were exhibiting at the Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference in San Francisco, contributed to an article in MPO Magazine, “Opening the Door to Innovation,”  posted a new blog “KMC’s communication focus leads to better products and long-term relationships,” and shared (retweeted) exciting new medical technology developments in the medical device industry.

Q:  As a leading medical device manufacturer, KMC is known for having a high rate of repeat business.  How does your communication process play into that success?

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I guess we all know that when the ball dropped in Times Square on December 31^st to herald in 2013 that the 2.3 percent medical device tax went into effect. At this point what we can confirm is that the longer term affects of the tax will play out in the coming months but the first reports are trickling in and they are not encouraging.

With the priorities of getting to market faster and lowering development costs, KMC obtains critical information early in the medical device product development process to avoid bottlenecks, interaction conflicts, performance surprises and optimize the best instrument architecture.

Entering 2013, KMC Systems, Inc. is excited about advances in health care technologies that are helping people on more personal and customizable levels.  Working closely with OEMs and start-ups, KMC will continue to pioneer new solutions to meet the increased medical device design and manufacturing market demand.

KMC Systems is welcoming laboratory automation professionals to the preeminent 2013 SLAS annual event in Kissimmee, Florida this week. The event is being held at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center. In case you overlooked it, the noteworthy descriptive words there are "Palms & Resort" … needless to say that it’s a pretty nice place to have to visit to do business this time of year!

KMC looks back on 2012 as a year of advancement in medical device design and manufacturing for both our customers and us. Our technical and manufacturing teams were focused on enhancing existing lean manufacturing processes and optimizing design through simulation modeling and collaborative development.