ID8

At ID8 Design we are developing high-performance protective head gear delivering a holistic level of player protection. Critical product features include impact, comfort, durability, and aesthetics. The distinct assembly and features of our SEG-V1 head gear will provide outstanding comfort and fit for a wide range of head shapes and sizes. Head gear padding automatically positions perpendicular to head surfaces in all regions of the assembly affording the highest level of impact protection materials can provide. Premium impact protection is delivered without sacrificing player comfort or impact performance.

ID8 design recently approached Moldville Inc., with an alternative method to recreate historical figurine tooling used by the original Mold-A-Rama vending machines which debuted at the Seattle World's Fair in 1962.

Images below depict our recreation of the highly collectable "Neptune Spyder" figurine from the 1960s for which the tooling no longer exists. Utilizing standard tessellation language bodies, scanned or 3D sculped as input, we create accurate and highly finished rapid machine tools to produce Moldville figurines. Machining tools provided Moldville a higher quality end product and significantly shorter turnaround in comparison to the standard cast tooling process.

Moldville Neptune Spyder tool design by: ID8 design, llc. - 03/20/2022

Healthcare workers are telling mask manufactures all they need to know...

These faces speak volumes to the underlying disposable mask design problems worth solving for the sake of millions of healthcare workers. If you are a manufacturer and have recently joined the effort to produce and distribute surgical and or respirator type N95 mask products by replicating proven and established mask designs, then you are well contributing to the immediate need to reduce mask supply shortages. This path along with the FDA's current EUA program provides your organization a rapid process to bring useable product to market and help close the gap between supply and demand. This path likely does not include addressing outstanding user needs or mask product performance improvements beyond the current disposable mask offerings.

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To sustain your manufacturing business for the long run well after this pandemic rush has settled you are likely considering how and when to invest the resources and time necessary to distinguish yourself with a superior "purposefully" designed mask product. At that time the competition will be fierce and a number of businesses who have made recent capitol investments to supply product for the current demand may not transition well when mask supplies meet the market demand. Performance improvements you identify, plan, and instill now will provide you a competitive advantage over the competition and ensure that your product stands out from one in a million other standard disposable mask products.

At ID8 Design we are busy evaluating mask user feedback being shared by an estimated 18 million healthcare workers domestically. We are compiling the knowledge that defines foundational problems not addressed with current disposable mask product offerings. A common problem workers experience is the development of skin ulcerations from heavy mask usage. They are highly susceptible to ulcerations due to prolonged skin contact, trapped moisture (sweat), poor mask fit and an uneven distribution of force exerted by fixation or tension straps used to achieve a proper perimeter seal to the face. Also disposable mask designs often lack adequate features to support free movement of the jaw during conversation. The images shared below illustrate the point load and lateral forces translated to hard points across the nose, cheek, and jaw bone locations. These locations have less muscle and fat layers over the cartilage and bone to distribute forces through tissue mass.

We are leveraging common industry technologies and tools provided by leading manufacturers and governing regulatory bodies like NIOSH (sizing head-forms shown below), to better understand to underlying issues we have identified during the evaluation process. These inputs are the foundation necessary to support innovative problem solving and detailed development. A mask's user contact surfaces require excellent compliance to create and maintain a face perimeter seal to a wide variety of head-form shapes and sizes. This area also requires proper support to maintain this seal throughout constant facial movements. The image below illustrates the compliant contact surface area (colored orange), of a single cup style mask product applied to multiple NIOSH regulatory head-forms.

Mask design innovation and development is best served by a multi-disciplined development team sharing knowledge concurrently to identify and solve outstanding user needs, material applications, and production processing. Your mask design efforts will instill best practices for medical device development addressing all regulatory requirements of both the FDA and CDC which will be in full force when the current EUA's are lifted. This is not a trivial effort as you need to ensure your new product will meet these requirements and achieve the high performance of a "gold standard" mask product ready for distribution.

This is an opportunity to invest and work for the greater good. We look forward to sharing more about potential solutions over the next couple of months. Stay tuned... ID8.design

When developing new innovative products for mass production, choose to empower a multi-disciplinary project team focused to deliver purposeful product solutions. As Director of Design and Development for Windpact Inc., I was provided the opportunity to lead Windpact’s concept and production development efforts for numerous products across multiple industries.

The new Evoshield Pro-SRZ Catcher’s Face-mask is the result of one of those efforts to deliver high performance protective head gear to the playing field. Our project team development efforts for the Pro-SRZ face-mask padding system commenced with Windpact’s designers and engineers collaborating to design and fabricate prototype test assemblies to evaluate regulatory impact standard performance, conduct comparative product testing, and initialize player fitment analysis. Upon verification of outstanding impact performance our team down selected pad materials, volume, shape and position for best overall performance.

Production design efforts then ensued to create fully customized and integrated Windpact “Crash Cloud” ™ pad assemblies within Evoshield’s distinct steel mask frame design. CAD tools were leveraged to determine dimension and proportion of geometric shapes when contoured to the frame assembly. Unique pad integration features including geometric projections and clip fastening details were invented and developed to ensure holistic integration of Windpact’s technology within the Evoshield mask assembly. To complete our design for manufacturing effort we worked concurrently with our factories engineering team to design, build, and refine unique processes and tooling features. Upon completion of tooling refinements, initial trial padding assemblies were produced for test performance verification, player fitment analysis, and final production article approvals.

The SCBA Horizon respirator designed for Scott Aviation in 1989. The challenge is to improve facepiece features for user line of sight, mobility, and weight distribution. Pictured below are two of Scott's industry gold standard facepiece offerings in comparison to the new facepiece design. The product name, "Horizon" emphasized Scott's desire to produce a facepiece with improved line of sight in hazardous conditions.

(In order: "Scottoramic" - "Scott-O-Vista" - "Horizon Concept")

To address the performance requirements a number of facepiece form factors are considered. The select concept form factor relocated the air supply line and regulator assemblies from a front mount to the side. The side mount regulator contributes to a reduction of the facepiece length and provides better product weight distribution. To further improve weight distribution and regulator volume we added a separate fresh air port feature adjacent to the side regulator position. Dual front mounted voicemitters provide efficient audio transmission and contribute to a reduction of regulator volume.

To verify the Horizon concept features had successfully addressed all project requirements we fabricated a high fidelity prototype assembly. A prototype is provided to Scott's engineering team to conduct initial design and feasibility evaluations. The evaluation was to verify the concept feature improvements for facepiece line of sight, fit, user mobility, weight, center of gravity, assembly, and estimate cost.

Integrated Windpact's "Crash Cloud" padding technology creating unique design features and manufacturing processes to deliver optimal impact performance, durability and comfort. Windpact's Under Armour catchers mask pads incorporate custom geometric projection features that holistically integrate pads with the masks rigid frame. Projection features also provided Under Armour with a distinct aesthetic appeal in comparison to current market offerings.

Opportunities to bring innovative ideas to the market place come in all shapes and sizes. In this case a little hands on ingenuity became a status quo game changer. The addition of these positive projection features for improved registration of the padding system within a rigid body offers multiple product benefits with minimal added manufacturing cost.

HFA3 - Humphrey Field Analyzer

The Zeiss Humphrey Field Analyzer (HFA) device has established the accepted industry gold standard of care in glaucoma diagnosis and managing age-related macular degeneration (AMD) over the past 25 years. Carl Zeiss Meditec awarded ID8 Design the contract to provide industrial design support to their marketing and engineering teams creating the new HFA3 diagnostic device design. The challenge put before the team was to create a device design worthy of maintaining Zeiss' industry leadership position for years to come.

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A concurrent collaborative design process including marketing, engineering and industrial design was the key to ensure that all discipline efforts would produce solutions focused upon outstanding device usability, Zeiss brand recognition and highly efficient manufacturing details.

Carl Zeiss introduced the HFA3 device to the market in January of 2015. The industries reception has been outstanding having delivered over 2000 devices to customers over the first year.

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The new HFA3 device industrial design integrates delicate sweeping surfaces that culminate in crisp clean edge and parting line transitions consistent from all device vantage points. The device is designed to be approachable, avoid encroaching upon the patient's space and to ensure unobstructed operator to patient access and communication. The new device also features a 35% reduction in volume over its predecessor HFAII-i device.

The HFA3 optics design features a Liquid Trial Lens capability. The HFA3 uses liquid pressure to detect the patient's refractive error and corrects for it instantly with a push of a button, minimizing technician errors as well as keep consistency from one administration of the test to the next.

The enclosure design features an interlocking PC/ABS injection molded enclosure assembly engineered for high durability, accuracy and ease of assembly. Parting lines were integrated with the highest regard for aesthetics, quality and production efficiency.

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This collaborative team effort produced one of the most elegant, easy to use and cost effective devices manufactured by Carl Zeiss Meditec to date. HFA3 takes full advantage of Zeiss' global corporate standards and provides a progressive step forward to ensure a contemporary market appeal for the life of the product.

Next generation biometry from ZEISS

The ZEISS IOLMaster 700 features a unique modular type patient support and instrument base design providing outstanding versatility, comfort and structural integrity. Working concurrently with Zeiss' Jena German development team, id8.design was chosen to provide the detailed human factors and aesthetic design development support. The team created the innovative two piece patient support design shown below that instilled a combination of processes and materials to ensure optimal performance.

The patient support chassis and rear cover part is die cast in aluminum alloy to meet the structural,weight and volumetric system design requirement specifications. The supports front cover is designed for high pressure thin wall injection mold manufacturing in PC/ABS to meet the tactile, comfort and aesthetic requirements established by Zeiss' marketing team and brand guidelines.

The device measures a broad range of biometric parameters necessary for the latest IOL power calculation formulas. Keratometry (K) is the measurement of the corneal curvature; corneal curvature determines the power of the cornea. ZEISS is the only company that offers a biometer with telecentric, and thus distance independent, Keratometry.

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The Visante OCT from Carl Zeiss Meditec provides excellent high-resolution images of the anterior segment of the eye. It uses low-coherence interferometry to produce cross-sectional tomographs of the cornea and anterior chamber. It is a non-contact instrument that captures its images quickly and with little technician effort.

Ergonomic design ideally suited for you and your patients. Compact, integrated system including unique chinrest positions patient for easy image capture and wide peripheral coverage.