Lucid Innovation - Experienced Product Designers - Manchester, UK

Breaking Down the Barriers to Early Adoption

Posted in: News|Tags: Alistair Williamson, connected healthcare solutions, product innovation|June 16, 2017

Greater Manchester Medical Device Leadership Group Meeting

Arjun Sikand, Commercial Director of Health Innovation Manchester will present the Healthcare Innovation Adoption Pathway. This integrated approach to health and social care spans primary, community, secondary, tertiary and social care. The objective is to cut across traditional silo budgets, accelerating the adoption of innovative healthcare solutions that offer better patient outcomes and potential cost benefits.

Marcus Orton, CEO of Swabtech Ltd will update on the launch of the Medtech Early Technical Assessment tool. NICE and Greater Manchester Academic Health Science Network (GMAHSN) developed the tool to enable early adoption.

Alistair Williamson, Managing Director of Lucid Innovation will discuss the challenges facing connected healthcare solutions. As consumers increasingly appreciate the benefits of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, interest in the potential of connected healthcare solutions is at an all time high. Connecting systems offer immense benefits, but healthcare is a highly regulated environment. Drawing on Lucid’s development experience, Alistair will provide a brief introduction to the core considerations in connected device development. Useful take-aways will include sources of information on data security, emissions, immunity, compatibility, power and compliance.

Tuesday 27th June
12:30 – 14:00
Greenheys Business Centre, Manchester Science Park

Lucid’s Carl Stone Explains How to Keep Gremlins Out – Internet of Things Device Design

Posted in: News|Tags: British Design Innovation, Electronic Hardware Design, Electronics, Industrial Design, Internet of Things, medical device design|May 8, 2017

Connecting networks of objects embedded with electronics, from wearable sensors to wireless implants, innovative forms of advertising to connected cites, IoT offers opportunities to collect and exchange data in radically more efficient, transparent and sustainable ways.

By 2022 Cisco projects that the Internet of Things industry will be worth $14.4T. Concurrently an ageing and growing population poses unprecedented challenges on world-wide health-care provision. Technological advances are driving lighter, smaller, faster and lower power electronics. So it’s no surprise that product developers are keen to exploit networks to facilitate more effective diagnostic and therapeutic interventions.

The reality is that keeping wireless devices securely connected, at low power and consistent data rates, without latency or drop-out is a real challenge in healthcare situations.

As Carl Stone, Lucid Director explains, “Specifying a communication module and expecting simple electronics and programming to connect to any mobile device is rarely realistic. Wireless devices are inherently susceptible interference from external electronics. They can also interfere with other devices. Diagnosis. therapy and lives can depend on reliable data.”

Most healthcare software and physical products are legally classified as medical devices. That means our engineers plan, research, design risk mitigation, verification and product validation that goes well beyond what might be expected for say an fitness tracker.

Getting that design right is critical, not just to keep gremlins out of a system, it can keep business owners out of severe legal complications. Critically …manufacturing and distributing medical devices, including software and apps, even for trials means taking on responsibilities and following processes that are not just good practice, they are law…Ignoring them is not an option.

Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, RF and other communication technologies all have different strengths and weaknesses in an IoT context. Accreditation to ISO 13485 and long-standing experience of medical electronics and software development means Lucid’s team is well placed to accelerate routes to connected device development, adoption and compliance. Talk to us about your plans, we can help keep gremlins out of connected devices.

Design Assistant/Administrator Vacancy

Posted in: News|Tags: Design, Manchester, Vacancy|May 8, 2017

Do you have the drive, attention to detail, enthusiasm and initiative to support Lucid’s team in delivering exciting design projects?

We’re looking for a self-starter who’s bright, quick and keen to get involved with everything from maintaining our contacts database, to helping our designers prepare for presentations. Experience with excel, word, dealing with enquiries and web research are a must. Great interpersonal skills will really help, as will an ability to organise and understand a diverse team.

Ideally you will have some experience of administration and supporting sales or marketing activity. Academic results are less important than the ability to spell, do quick sums, think on your feet.

We’d welcome applications from people who would like to work full-time, or around school hours and holidays.

Please no agencies. Applications from people without current UK work visas cannot be considered.

To apply, please email a note to say how you can help, with a CV to ideas@lucidinnovation.com

Lucid and Lynton Lasers Combine British Design with British Manufacturing

Posted in: News|Tags: British Design Innovation, Manufacture, medical device design, product innovation|May 8, 2017

Lynton Lasers launched the new LUMINA® laser and Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) platform earlier this year. Lucid has designed products for Lynton for many years. We were pleased to continue our relationship. LUMINA® is medically CE-marked, listed on the NHS Supply Chain, combining five market-leading technologies, to help treat over 24 aesthetic concerns.

Lynton is UK’s premier supplier of aesthetic technology to private clinics and the NHS.

LUMINA® represents a series of incremental improvements from the inside out. Compliance issues and manufacturability concerns drove much of the internal engineering. Externally, improvements to usability, maintenance access and design were made along with development to complement a brand aesthetic developed in Lucid’s previous work on Lynton’s popular Excelight IPL and Laser hand-pieces.

Andrew Hodgin, Lucid’s Director of Innovation said: “We made sure we fully understood our client, their technology and their market, so we were able to evolve their product into one that is easier to use. The new design is straightforward to maintain and complements their existing range.”

“Lucid have a collaborative approach to design projects and are grounded in the real world. Each stage was delivered in a timely fashion and communicated clearly. They created something quite distinctive which gave us a head start in the market. Technical and design aspects were brought together; delivering the detail, and Lucid weren’t precious about the decisions made. They offered a practical, professional advice and were not purely concept driven”

Ben Dickinson, Operations Director, Lynton Lasers

Concerned About Future Medical Device Regulation? Make Your Voice Heard…

Posted in: News|Tags: Alistair Williamson, British Design Innovation, medical device design, product innovation|May 7, 2017

Lucid is part of the Manchester Medical Device Leadership Group, a collaboration of Medical Device developers who help each other navigate the complexities of MedTech compliance. European MedTech week, 19-23rd June 2017 includes the European MedTech Summit in Amsterdam. Manchester Medical Device Leadership Group’s Rebecca Sheridan will be presenting, along with MHRA and many other important opinion formers.

Manchester Medical Device Leadership Group are holding an open forum to gather feedback and inform Rebecca’s presentation.

17th May 2017 – 12:30-1:30 pm – Greenheys Atrium, Manchester Science Park, M15 6JJ

If you’d like to attend – please email ideas@lucidinnovation.com

This is a great opportunity to voice the challenges you face with the adoption of the new Medical Device Regulation and In Vitro Device Regulation – click here for details.

Meet Rob, Lucid’s latest intern

Posted in: News|March 14, 2017

Lucid’s team first met Rob Hill when we judged a design completion at Knutsford High School.

He impressed us then, but we were even more impressed that he stayed in touch with us afterwards. After all, tenacity and network-building are central to the way we work as a business!

We’ve got a highly-experienced team at Lucid, but we know that the future of our business – and the future of the industry – depends on nurturing the best talent. Future designers like Rob.

We were delighted to offer Rob a year’s placement with us as part of his degree at Loughborough University. So far, he’s been involved in projects for the British Industrial Design Association, met many other leading designers, gained valuable experience in research, 3D CAD, 3D print and user needs definition.

For Rob, it has been a great opportunity. He understands the importance of making great personal contacts in the industry, and maintaining them.

We’re always interested in meeting people who could strengthen our team now, or in the future.

Could you be part of our team? Introduce yourself with an email to ideas@lucidinnovation.com

Lucid wins £1m NHS contract to develop better solutions for faecal incontinence

Posted in: News|March 14, 2017

SBRI Healthcare, an NHS England Initiative has contracted to Lucid to help reduce the impact of frailty with a more accessible diagnostic and therapeutic device.

There is anecdotal evidence that 50% of people in residential care are there because they have problems with incontinence. NICE have an objective to triple diagnosis and enable earlier, more conservative interventions.

Professor Hamdy, Consultant Gastroenterologist at Salford NHS Trust and Professor of Neurogastroenterology at the University of Manchester approached us with an original concept. We are working with a team of surgeons, continence and clinical specialists as well as Professor Hamdy and the University of Manchester’s Intellectual Property company to develop a reliable and inexpensive system called An-i-sys.

In primary care, An-i-sys will be an improvement on the basic digital examination and will provide comprehensive quantitative data. Highly trained community based, continence specialist nurses will be able to use the system to enable earlier referral.

In secondary care, rapid calibration and set up of An-i-sys will increase capacity. Potential paediatric applications including pre-and post-surgical uses have also been identified.

This is a great collaboration that will produce a system that will improve the lives of many ageing people. It means patients can be diagnosed and treated faster and have their dignity restored. If more people can remain in their homes the pressure on social care services will be vastly reduced.

For us it has been a brilliant opportunity to combine our electronic and software skills with our ISO 13485 system. We plan to take that further and extend our involvement into the supply chain and manufacture the device as well.

The Shape of Things to Come – How to Use Design and New Product Development for Commercial Success

Posted in: News|March 14, 2017

Lucid Join Lucid MD, Alistair Williamson at Southern Manufacturing and Electronics at 3pm, 21 March 2017, at Five in Farnborough.

The seminar focusses on ways to discover things that people will value in future – and using the know-how to create products that deliver sustainable business advantage. Alistair will discuss how to combine opportunity spotting, feasibility studies, market research, brand strategy and prototyping to deliver effective mechanical and electronic design. And then take that design onto problem free manufacture.

Using case studies, Alistair will illustrate how the Lucid team and others have used design thinking and technical know-how to help businesses compete more successfully. Hopefully there’ll be some lively debate and that everyone will find the easy-to-implement takeaways useful.

For more information, visit www.industrysouth.co.uk

Embedded Design Engineer Vacancy

Posted in: News|March 3, 2017

Lucid is looking for a electronics design engineers, with microcontroller experience to join our multidisciplinary team.

Can you demonstrate 10 4 or more years real time embedded software development?

Ideally you will have used assembler, C, C++, on bare metal, with RTOS, MPLAB, Energia and Arduino tools.

Interfacing microcontrollers with sensors and actuators is useful experience. RF design know-how is important, including design for EMC.

PCB design experience could include packages such as Mentor Graphics, Altium, Cadstar, or Allegro.

We’ll be looking for evidence of your use of ARM, dsPIC series and Texas CC1310/5969, or similar chips. A background in control theory, digital signal processing and computer vision would be good. Knowledge of Windows, Linux, Android and iOS programming or scripting languages and PSPIC/Hyperlynx/EZNEC tools will help.

This is a great opportunity to develop IOT and similarly challenging devices for highly regulated industries. Please no agencies. Applications from people without current UK work visas cannot be considered.

To apply, please email a CV to ideas@lucidinnovation.com

Successful re-accreditation to ISO 9001 and 13485

Posted in: News|December 14, 2016

Today, we’re pleased to announce successful completion of BSI audits again. Lucid’s ISO 9001 quality management system and ISO 13485 medical device development accreditation were both renewed.

Vincent Lynch, Lucid Head of Electronics and Software comments…” it’s testament to the team’s hard work that the BSI review revealed no non-conformances. We’re now moving on to implement ISO 13485 processes for manufacture”…

During 2017, we’ll offer customers a seamless process, under one roof, one team from ideas to finished, compliant medical device product.

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