News Release from: Prism Electronics
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 14 July 2005
Design-to-manufacture expertise is key
The design-to-manufacture expertise of contract electronics manufacturer Prism Electronics has taken a unique new product from prototype through to full production.
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The design-to-manufacture expertise of contract electronics manufacturer Prism Electronics has taken a unique new product, developed to reduce cross-infection in dentistry and the medical profession, from prototype through to full production. Safe-Point is a revolutionary new product from CooleyField and Associates which automatically unscrews complete hypodermic needles from syringes and safely disposes of them. Previously, similar products have only broken the needle off, making it possible to become injured while manually unscrewing the bayonet from the syringe.
Safe-Point, which is patented in UK, Europe and the USA, aims to reduce the 100,000 needle-stick injuries that occur every year in the UK.
Cambridgeshire-based Prism won the contract to manufacture Safe-Point, which is valued at over GBP 150,000 in the first year.
Sales are expected to grow rapidly as the product becomes established in the UK and is rolled out across other countries.
Prism was brought onboard at an early prototype stage so its skills could be used to help optimise Safe-Point for manufacture and bring it successfully to market.
The company's expertise has been invaluable in sourcing components, refining the product's design and building prototype models to help prepare it for production and keep manufacturing costs to a minimum.
It has also managed CE approval for Safe-Point, so it meets European regulations, and the development of packaging and labelling for the product.
Safe-Point was created from CooleyFields' initial concept by Cambridge-based product design consultants Wright Design.
Because the manufacture of Safe-Point would involve both electronic and mechanical production processes, Wright Design and CooleyField needed to source a manufacturing partner equally skilled in both these areas of manufacture.
The companies chose Prism after evaluating the services of several other contract electronics manufacturing companies because of its even balance of capability in both electronic and mechanical manufacture and the experience of key personnel in taking products successfully to market.
Prism will supply each Safe-Point assembled and packed complete with instruction manuals - ready to be shipped to end users.
'When we initially spoke to Prism we found them to be very realistic about what could be achieved with the manufacture of Safe-Point', said Chris Field of CooleyField.
'We had no experience in taking products to market and we needed to find a partner we could trust completely to help us with this phase of the product's development'.
'This combination of realism and trust made Prism the right choice for us'.
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