MD&M East is one of the largest medical device manufacturing events on the East Coast. Its organizer Informa Markets expects more than 8,000 advanced manufacturing professionals at this year’s event – June 11–13 in New York City. A show such as MD&M East allows officials from medtech companies large and small to network with the constellation […]
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Phillips-Medisize Arkansas plant expands medtech capacity
Phillips-Medisize said today that it now has FDA-compliant manufacturing space in the Little Rock, Ark. plant of its parent company, Molex. The 380,000-square-foot facility is now fully compliant with the Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP) regulations (21 CFR part 820) enforced by the FDA. The plant can now be used for Phillips-Medisize’s medical manufacturing services, including […]
Phillips-Medisize is offering connected health data services: Here’s how
One of the world’s largest medical device contract manufacturers, Phillips-Medisize is making a business play to provide the technological back end for connected drug delivery devices. Phillips-Medisize used to be all about the housings, assembly and packaging that went into finished drug-delivery devices. Electronics was something that other contract manufacturers did. Within a few years, […]
Phillips-Medisize is expanding in Wisconsin
Phillips-Medisize, a Molex company, has broken ground on a new manufacturing facility in Hudson, Wis., on the eastern end of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area. The 34-acre location at the St. Croix Meadows development will support at least 230,000 square feet of manufacturing space for FDA-regulated medical device products, Phillips-Medisize announced yesterday. After construction is complete […]
Philips-Medisize launches third-gen Connected Health Platform
Phillips-Medisize said today it completed the roll-out of its third-gen Connected Health Platform, a cloud-based data system for pharmaceutical and drug delivery device developers. The newly launched system includes information sharing and analytics capabilities as well as cybersecurity precautions and streamlined regulatory documentation, the Hudson, Wisc.-based company said. The third-gen Connected Health Platform includes an […]
Phillips-Medisize inks deal to develop connected health platform for drugs
Phillips-Medisize said this week that it teamed up with healthcare software tech company InterSystems to develop a data-sharing and analytics platform designed for connected drug-delivery devices and mobile medical apps. The third-generation of Phillips-Medisize’s connected health platform, combined with InterSystems’ HealthShare platform, will allow pharma companies to connect medication and diagnostic data across their drugs […]
Phillips-Medisize launches third-gen connected health platform
Phillips-Medisize today launched the third generation of its connected health platform, designed to serve the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. The Wisconsin-based company touted that its system was used in the first drug-device product approved by the FDA to track medication adherence. When combined with drug-delivery devices, connected health programs can help companies, doctors and […]
What you need to know to make connected medical devices
Bill Welch, Phillips-Medisize The estimated number of connected medical devices – devices connected to the Internet –is expected to increase from 10 billion to 50 billion over the next decade, according to the IBM Institute for Business Value. This is due to the ability for machine-to-machine communication through cloud computing and networks of data-gathering sensors, […]
Phillips-Medisize to build drug delivery manufacturing facility in Wisconsin
Phillips-Medisize said today that it plans to open an 80,000 square foot drug delivery manufacturing facility at its Menomonie, Wisconsin campus. The facility, which is expected to open in 2017, will manufacture high volume, prefilled drug delivery systems. It will employ at least 100 people, the company said, and is funded by the signing of […]