MORRISVILLE, N.C., Dec. 6, 2019 -- Gilero, a contract design, development and manufacturing firm specializing in medical and drug delivery devices, has announced the opening of a new Design Center in Carlsbad, California. The new location serves as Gilero’s second Design Center and will be led by Rob Henson, Senior Design Engineer...
Over the past few months, Gilero’s Director of Quality & Operations, Kristin Benokraitis, has traveled to Virginia Tech’s campus twice, speaking to both graduate and undergraduate students in the Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics department. Like many colleges and universities, Virginia Tech understands the importance of preparing students...
This is an excerpt from the article Delivering the Goods: The Evolving World of Combination Products, written by Sam Brusco, Associate Editor of Medical Product Outsourcing. The full article can be found here. The drug delivery and combination products market is technically made up of several different...
COLUMBUS, OH and MORRISVILLE, N.C., Nov. 4, 2019 -- Ernie Green Industries and Gilero announced today that they have made the strategic decision to end their equity partnership, known as EG-GILERO, allowing each company to refocus on their respective core offerings. Going forward, Gilero and Ernie Green Industries will operate as...
I always thought that everything I needed to learn I could learn from The Simpson’s but recently I have had to turn to comics and superheroes to learn about designing a battery powered medical device. In this case I’m referring to Ironman. Tony Stark had an electromagnet...
By: Kristin Benokraitis, Director of Quality and Operations at Gilero For the past 12 years I have worked in the medical device industry where I have developed new and exciting products which help to improve patient care, and in many cases, save lives. It’s the kind of thing...
By David Orenstein, Product Development Engineer for Gilero It can be difficult sometimes to see the value in usability testing. As devices are developed they seem so simple to the engineering team developing them; or the complexities are so justified it wouldn’t make sense to do it any...
By: Thomas Stokes, PhD When it comes right down to it, if you are making medical devices, performing good user research and formative studies in addition to validation studies is the smart choice. User research and formative studies provide valuable insights about users, their tasks, the environment that...
I may be a new engineer to the medical device field, but the discussion I’ve observed in the industry over the past few years indicates the landscape is changing quickly. Some examples of recent changes that we’ve already seen include the emergence of digital medicine, robotically assisted...