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| langwadt:
--- Quote from: Stray Electron on March 26, 2020, 03:08:47 am --- --- Quote from: langwadt on March 26, 2020, 01:35:18 am ---[ you don't just make medical things, there is tons of red tape involved, for good reasons --- End quote --- Really? My step father was an orthapedic surgeon and he had many instruments the he designed and that were custom built for him. A good number of them are now standard instruments in that field including the bone drill that is used to drill holes in bones so that pins can be installed. A friend of mine is a dammed good mechanical engineer and owns his own small machine shop and he's built dozens of specialty devices for various doctors and hospitals. --- End quote --- you can also makes an electronic DoThat, for evalution only use in a lab, not for sale, etc. but if you intend to sell it as a product you will need do all the compliance testing and get all the approvals |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: Stray Electron on March 26, 2020, 03:08:47 am --- --- Quote from: langwadt on March 26, 2020, 01:35:18 am ---you don't just make medical things, there is tons of red tape involved, for good reasons --- End quote --- Really? My step father was an orthapedic surgeon and he had many instruments the he designed and that were custom built for him. A good number of them are now standard instruments in that field including the bone drill that is used to drill holes in bones so that pins can be installed. A friend of mine is a dammed good mechanical engineer and owns his own small machine shop and he's built dozens of specialty devices for various doctors and hospitals. --- End quote --- That's why they call orthapedic surgeons, carpenters ;D But yes, probably nothing wrong with having a tool commissioned for you, but selling that tool to others is a whole other world. |
| Nusa:
But red tape can be either cut or ignored when the situation is sufficiently dire and the choice is between uncertified equipment or letting people die. For instance: https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/2020/03/19/talking-with-the-italian-engineers-who-3d-printed-respirator-parts-for-hospitals-with-coronavirus-patients-for-free/#2698329978f1 |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: Nusa on March 26, 2020, 05:38:59 am ---But red tape can be either cut or ignored when the situation is sufficiently dire and the choice is between uncertified equipment or letting people die. For instance: https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/2020/03/19/talking-with-the-italian-engineers-who-3d-printed-respirator-parts-for-hospitals-with-coronavirus-patients-for-free/#2698329978f1 --- End quote --- Yes, but that is rare. Try do it at any other time, you can't. The current situation is almost unprecedented. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: Nusa on March 26, 2020, 05:38:59 am ---But red tape can be either cut or ignored when the situation is sufficiently dire and the choice is between uncertified equipment or letting people die. For instance: https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/2020/03/19/talking-with-the-italian-engineers-who-3d-printed-respirator-parts-for-hospitals-with-coronavirus-patients-for-free/#2698329978f1 --- End quote --- That is my thought exactly, in an emergency when the alternative is many people dying it's acceptable to cut corners. During WWII we designed new aircraft, put them into service and started mass production in all sorts of factories in an insanely short period of time. Often while the design was still being polished and without any of the red tape and certification processes that would normally be required to build an aircraft. All of that legal stuff can be short circuited, you don't just let a bunch of people die over bureaucratic nonsense. You do it properly when you've got the luxury to do so, but if this virus pandemic is as dire as people say it is then we don't have that luxury, just build stuff, make it as cheap, simple and easy to build as possible and build a whole bunch of them. When we're done with them and replace them with properly built, tested and certified medical equipment they can be scrapped or donated to the third world. |
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