Medical design & manufacture news

Verifying medical device surfaces

BTG Labs’ Senior Applications Specialist, Lucas Dillingham, offers insights about cleaning, coating, sealing, printing, or bonding for medical device manufacturers. Topics Dillingham covers include: Material surface quality’s role in product reliability Navigating product changes to improve cost, maintain performance ISO 13485, the U.S. FDA’s Quality System Regulation 820.75, and their impact on process control decision making Application of available production level verification tests To watch this on-demand webinar visit: https://www.todaysmedicaldevelopments.com/form/verification-medical-device-surfaces-eas-manufacturing-form/.

Starrett appoints three to sales management

The L.S. Starrett Co. has named three sales management positions in North America:

• Jamie Feere, sales manager, Canada, Industrial Products. Feere has held several senior leadership roles and was most recently director of sales – Canada for Karcher, with initiatives focused on mentoring an outside sales force, developing growth strategies, and contracting negotiations.

• Michael Connor, strategic accounts sales manager: North America. Connor brings professional sales and marketing experience to his role including managing industrial, construction, and retail distribution channels in North America. Most recently, he directed sales/marketing efforts at a diamond tool company and a New England supply company.

• John Hibbard, regional sales manager: West - U.S.A., Industrial Products. Hibbard has held management and business development roles in industrial distribution and manufacturing in the U.S., including sales to end users, branch office management, overseeing corporate operations, and directing sales and business development efforts. Most recently, he was with Pferd North America.