India's industrial design market is evolving as the country grows economically and shifts towards more user-centric design. A growing middle class and a flourishing start-up ecosystem have compelled businesses to invest heavily in design to appeal to consumers. Additionally, a young skilled workforce has facilitated innovation across various industries, including automotive, consumer electronics, infrastructure, and healthcare. Varpas Concepts, a healthcare-focused design firm, contributes to this market by designing cost-effective and efficient medical devices to improve patient outcomes and enhance the overall healthcare experience. As the demand for medical devices in India increases and the government launches initiatives to promote domestic production, Varpas is well-positioned to significantly impact the market.
Medical device OEMs can lack dedicated in-house resources to develop new products. Especially, when a company with a mature portfolio of products is trying to diversify, or a new company is working on developing products beyond its core competency. Varpas Concepts addresses these pain points by providing in-house expertise, with specialized knowledge and an established network for developing devices that require micro-fabrication i.e., at or below 100 microns. Varpas has a strong network of physicians, R&D labs, and manufacturing vendors worldwide. Additionally, Varpas's micro-medical device design expertise ensures that product development services meet
regulatory requirements. “The company is working towards achieving ISO 13485 compliance and is expected to be compliant in the next few months”, says Rohit Dulal, Founder.
The company's flagship services include user research and human factors engineering, concept ideation and rapid prototyping, industrial design and engineering, regulatory compliance, and manufacturing optimization. Varpas's deep understanding of micro-medical device development and regulatory frameworks differentiates it from other design firms. The company's customized approach to client engagement involves a systematic process that starts with understanding the problem the client is trying to solve, followed by market research, problem definition, ideation, and prototyping, and finally, documentation and engineering support for production.
Advancing Medical Devices
Varpas Concepts is a medical device design firm uniquely positioned in the market due to its core expertise in designing micron-level medical devices, particularly in ophthalmic and orthopedic areas. Within the ophthalmic space, Varpas Concepts assisted a 20+ year-old medical devices company in the US, to develop a Class I ophthalmic expander device for cataract surgery. This device is used by surgeons intra-operatively inside the eye to maintain visibility of the cataract and other posterior features. The challenges involved designing a micro-engineered plastic part that can fit through a 2 – 2.5 mm incision and expand to about 7 mm inside the human eye.
Varpas Concepts is a medical device design firm specializing in micro-medical devices, focusing on ophthalmic and orthopedic devices, and providing full-service design solutions
Varpas provides full product lifecycle support for the development, testing, documentation, and production of this product to the US-based client. From simulating the micro medical device and its interaction with bodily tissues, to wet-lab testing of prototypes inside animal eyes, to now conducting clinical trials, Varpas has guided the entire project with a strong technological backing. The company can design and develop micro-medical devices with functional features between 1 to 100 microns, leveraging an established vendor network for fine metalworking, sheet metalworking, micro-injection molding, and micro-3D printing.
Varpas Concepts plans to expand the service portfolio to include small-volume manufacturing and standardized testing of micro-medical devices. The company is also exploring digital solutions in healthcare.
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