Project 3 - Design and Development of Disposable Syringe (Medical Technology)

Task 1

Now let us first understand what a disposable syringe is. A disposable syringe is only a one-time syringe. Since we know the syrionges are used for multiple things such as taking out blood from a patient, injecting some drug into the body etc. Now before the time disposable syringes were a thing doctors would use the same syringe on multiple patients before apparently changine the needle. Doctor's apparently "sterlized" syringe still led to a lot of blood borne diseases become transmitted between the patients. Once the data became enough to prove that the diseases were spread due to the use of same syringe on multiple patients by the same doctor. That is when the alternative to traditional syringes became a hot topic thus leading to one time use syriinges also commonly known as the disposable syringes. Now the market cap of the disposable syringe is apparently close to a whooping 148 million USD and is apparently expected to reach 385.54 million USD byb 2030. The biggest supplier of disposable syringe in India is currently HMD (Hindustan Syringes and Medical Devices). Their best selling syringes being the Dispo Van. The needle of the syringes are to be distroyed after the usage with the help of a electric current machine. Since the syringe is disposable thus the whole syringe needs to be thrown away once it is used, thus it ends up in the landfill. Even if it is biodegradable it has many unfavourable consequences, so why not just make a syringe out of a material that is like plastic or polypropylene but gets dissolved in the soil without any further treatment and gets dissolved easily leaving nothing behind to be treated.

Task 2

Value Proposition: Clean Healthcare for everyone.

Roadmap for syringe

Now as for resource allocation, that would have been the case if the products would have been made by the manufacturer that is a third party but since all of the manufacturing done will be like made to be in-house starting from 4th quarter of 2021, resource allocation will not have to be a problem. All of the material will be made in-house as well in the home lab. The design would be co-engineerred with AI also known as generative design.

Task 3

Scope: To get better grip and easier movement

Materials to be used: A different material other than the traditonal onesngoing around with some fabric touch.

Feasibility: The chances of the such a material to be found alonmg with fabric touch is 50-55% or may7be even more depending upon the algorithm of the AI to be used. Getting that into production and being 3D printable can be upto 30%. Finding a substitute that is eco friendly for the rubber >60%.

Product Architecture: Now the product architecture for the syringe yea will be modular for the reason that if somehow due to a product fault during production gets some part to be non-fucntioning then it can be brought back to the company by the vendor and till then the part of the traditional syringe can be used in the syringe and will be acceptable since it will be made to even accomodate old syringen part without any problem.

WBS:

Verification and validation Plan: Send the document to proper authorities and get the dimensions cehcked and if they are in compliance with the dimensions. Once the certifdicate is recieved we can launch the product.

Schematics:

Product Name: Disposable Syringe

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Mechanical Interface

Chapter 2: Human Interface

Introduction

We know the syrionges are used for multiple things such as taking out blood from a patient, injecting some drug into the body etc. Now before the time disposable syringes were a thing doctors would use the same syringe on multiple patients before apparently changine the needle. Doctor's apparently "sterlized" syringe still led to a lot of blood borne diseases become transmitted between the patients. Once the data became enough to prove that the diseases were spread due to the use of same syringe on multiple patients by the same doctor. That is when the alternative to traditional syringes became a hot topic thus leading to one time use syriinges also commonly known as the disposable syringes.

Chapter 1: Mechanical Interface

The plunger will move in the syringe bosy and with the help of the rubber at the end push the medicine into human body.

Chapter 2: Human Interface

The user needs to push the pulunger with the help of their thumb while holding the syringe with the help of two fingers.

To simplify the design we need not add any extra hooks in the syringe just keeep it plain for the user to understand that the plungere moves and the medicine gets pushed into the body and that is it nothing else needs to be done to the design. The body should have only the markings that are needed and for the body aesthetics and amking it egronomical, the body needs to have minimal marking and easier to hold and read and work with.

Task 4

All of the solidworks answers are tyhere in this link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zLt9yAIBe_bdnH5hm5TddNoTBUXbgF8e?usp=share_link

Task 5

The problems with the syringes are a different breed and nothing like the problems with the machines. So here is FMEA for the syringtes. A lil bit diferent than the machines:

Task 6

So while searching about the syringes I cam around to a material it is made of is "Polypropylene". Now apparently if you google that if the material is biodegradable or not that is what all of us mostly do while understanding if the product is actually good for the environment or not but to my surprise, the search had a line extra with biodegradable stating that the recycling of the biodegradable material requires a long process and is apparently costly too, thus the companies do not actually go and recycle it and it ends up in the landfills. Now if the material used can be easily recycled or just made to disappear without leaving behind any residue? Since AI algorithms now a days are getting more and more intelligent, they seem to help in everything be it making human faces or what not? So along with the help of AI and running some tests we can develop a material that will possibly change the disposable materials we use now. And along with using AI to design the assembly line as well for the production of the material with keywords such as save energy, cost efficient, we can actually achieve more than just a product that is completetly eco friendly but a sound infrastructure. We can also also skip the costs for the shipping and manufacturing by doing the thing in house and making the formula for the material a trade secret. This will help with getting a grip on the market. Also the company would encourage the syringes to be delivered back to the company so that they can be recycled if it is safe to use them again or just decompose them.

Task 7

Everything in the syringe is in series and nothing is in parallel because the 3D printing will print all of the parts at once and everything is linked to each other and nothing is working independent of each other. Now if I actually want to fattrack the work I can either work on the earlier material for production and discover the material in the meantime. Either I can get everything outsourced, these solutions are definetly for the time if I have decided to amke the thing alone and dop not have any company. Now if I have a company I can ask my employees do it and have myself monitor it. Or just let the AI monitor them. Or just make the machines do the experiments and present me the final product.

Task 8

After going through several patents I have found 5 patents regarding the same buit also not conflicting with my idea.The patents are cited below:

Now none of them inventions are contradicting my hypothesis si9nce, I wish to make a material that feels plastic but is not plastic and is soft to touch like fabric and is easier to use and does not get infected easily with bacteria. Claims for the same are given below:

• The material will be rigid like plastic but not plastic.
• Would have a bit of fabric touch.
• This means that claim 2 claims that product will have some fabric touch to it but will not be fabric entirely.
• Easier to work with and no rubber issue.

Task 9

The product does meet the updated trends in market for product generation since thew device is like made with the help of AI along with the assembly line will also set in with the help of AI for better efficiency. No it will not be able to be IoT enabled and will be sold to the customer as a product rather than a service.