Engineering excellence: New product development in medical devices
summary
Seven years of product work lead from concept to FDA release of a NextGen SPECT/CT scanner at Siemens Healthineers with concrete choices and results: a team grows from seven to a US plus 10‑person India org, legacy QNX/C++ replaced by Windows .NET C# stack with real‑time logic moved into firmware, a surprising root cause of a live UI glitch is a major memory leak found before field release, and a monthly screw‑wear telemetry test catches mechanical risk so clinical trials in Birmingham proceed on schedule in a 7 year NPD timeline.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:21Nuclear medicine diagnostics
- 6:59Legacy to next-gen product
- 9:04Unified global team
- 12:19Stack stability vs real-time
- 14:29Design and risk mitigation
- 16:17Offshore ownership
- 18:45Personal and team challenges
- 20:13Hardware-integrated testing
- 22:57COVID clinical trials impact
- 23:38Leadership insights
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