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VEXTEC Presenting at 14th Annual Design of Medical Devices Conference
VEXTEC’s VLM software for leads of defibrillator devices Brentwood, TN, April 10, 2015 – Dr. Sanjeev Kulkarni, Vice President of Sales & Business Development of VEXTEC Corporation, will be presenting at the 2015 Design of Medical Devices Conference on April 15, 2015. […]
FDA Accepts Virtual Life Management® for Evaluation Into The MDDT Pilot Program.
Virtual Twin of a cardiac rhythm electrical lead. April 1, 2015, Brentwood, TN-The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will evaluate VEXTEC’s Virtual Life Management (VLM®) for certification as a Medical Device Development Tool (MDDT). The goal of the MDDT pilot program is to assess and refine the qualification process for tools used to develop and evaluate [...]
VEXTEC to Present at the 2015 Aircraft Airworthiness & Sustainment Conference
Brentwood, TN, March 20, 2015 – VEXTEC Corporation co-founder Robert Tryon will be making two presentations at the 2015 Aircraft Airworthiness & Sustainment (AA&S) Conference. The conference will be held in Baltimore, Maryland March 30 – April 2. Representatives from the Air Force, Navy, NASA, Federal Aviation Administration and industry will be in attendance. […]
VEXTEC to Present at the 2015 Aircraft Airworthiness & Sustainment Conference
March, 2015--VEXTEC Corporation co-founder Robert Tryon will be making two presentations at the 2015 Aircraft Airworthiness & Sustainment (AA&S) Conference. The conference will be held in Baltimore, Maryland March 30 – April 2. Representatives from the Air Force, Navy, NASA, Federal Aviation Administration and industry will be in attendance.
Tennessee’s Best Kept Secret
“Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Perhaps this was the goal of Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam in June when he returned from his economic development trip to Asia unwilling to share details with the public. Soon after his departure, a flurry of news reports and blogs surfaced wanting to know why he [...]
Live Webcast of VEXTEC Presentation at ASME Advanced Design and Manufacturing Impact Forum
VEXTEC’s Vice President of Business Development, Dr. Sanjeev Kulkarni is an invited speaker at the ASME Advanced Design and Manufacturing Impact Forum 2014, August 17-20, 2014 at the Buffalo-Niagara Convention Center in Buffalo, NY. He will be presenting a talk entitled “Medical Devices & Life Sciences: Innovative Medical Device Prototyping – 3D Printing and Biocompatibility”. The presentation is [...]
The Manufacturing Maintenance Balancing Act
In a 2006 Nielsen study1, auto industry manufacturing executives reported that stopped production costs averaged $22,000 per minute or $1.3 million per hour of downtime. When surveyed, 53% of the manufacturers agreed that predictive and preventative maintenance was the key to reducing this loss of productivity and revenue. So, what is the best practice for determining how to [...]
How Missile Defense Technology Is Advancing Health Care
The intersection of engineering fields yields a fertile breeding ground for new ideas. The combination of previously separate concepts lies at the heart of creativity and novelty. An increasing amount of these technological breakthroughs generate innovations with commercial potential. […]
VEXTEC to Participate in Inaugural Medical Devices Special Interest Group Planning Meeting
Oct. 18, 2014 – Brentwood, Tenn. — The Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) is launching the Medical Devices Special Interest Group (SIG). VEXTEC’s Vice President of Sales & Business Development, Dr. Sanjeev Kulkarni, has been invited to participate in the inaugural SIG planning meeting to be held on October 23rd at the BMES Annual Meeting in San Antonio. Click to [...]
VEXTEC Helps Develop Verification and Validation for Computational Modeling of Medical Devices
Oct. 16, 2014 – Brentwood, Tenn. — On October 21 and 22, ASME’s V&V 40 Standard sub-committee will meet to finalize the “Verification and Validation of Computational Modeling of Medical Devices” standard. VEXTEC’s Vice President of Sales & Business Development, Dr. Sanjeev Kulkarni will be in attendance. Click here to read the full article
VEXTEC Founders to Attend 2014 Southern Automotive Conference
Oct. 6, 2014 – Brentwood, Tenn. — VEXTEC’s Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Robert Tryon and Chief Product Development Officer, Dr. Animesh Dey, will be attending the 2014 Southern Automotive Conference, October 9 – 10 at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex in Birmingham, Alabama. […]
Today’s Warranty Challenge: Building Brand Loyalty While Delivering Better Products
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, last year the auto industry recalled close to a third more vehicles in the U.S. (22 million) than it sold (just over 15 million). Recalls were up by a staggering 25 percent during 2013, which is the industry’s highest rate since 2004. It is no shock that these recalls can [...]
VEXTEC Presents At The Medical Device Innovation Consortium’s First Modeling and Simulation Summit
VEXTEC Vice-President Dr. Sanjeev Kulkarni made a presentation at the Medical Device Innovation Consortium’s (MDIC) first modeling and simulation summit in Washington, D.C. The presentation was titled “Computational Modeling of Medical Devices Using Virtual Life Management.” […]