Author: Matt

Hiring Engineers is difficult and expensive. Using a consultant is the low cost and high speed alterative! The average hiring process is 42 days long (source: SHRM.org). During that time action items are not being fulfilled and the team is burning hours interviewing candidates at an average of 9.6 hours per opening (source: Talroo.com). Once […]

Bayard Design LLC has always been committed to sustainable design practices, but will now reaffirm that commitment through the following steps: Electricity use in our offices and workshop will now come from 100% renewal sources We will continue to participate in the recycling program offered by our property owner Our plastic parts check list now […]

Bayard Design is proud to be a 2021 sponsor of Forge. FORGE addresses crucial gaps and accelerates path to market for these startups by making right-fit introductions to industry expertise, combined with the training and support needed to ensure readiness for the connections to be productive.  The Manufacturing Initiative helps startups to source their supply […]

This week ecobee launched their new SmartSensor for doors and windows.   It is a new hardware offering to support their new Haven platform.    “With the introduction of the Haven platform supported by new hardware – including the new SmartCamera with voice control and SmartSensors for doors and windows – ecobee has designed a new way […]

A new JAMA study shows that surgical robotics use is up by up to 15% since 2012: Findings  In this cohort study of 169 404 patients in 73 hospitals, the use of robotic surgery for all general surgery procedures increased from 1.8% to 15.1% from 2012 to 2018. Hospitals that launched robotic surgery programs had a broad […]

Arrow has a great article in their blog this week on product certification. Product certification can be the forgotten cost and schedule item in some projects. In part its reads: It’s critical to get the right certifications when you’re developing and building a new technology product. Having the right certifications shows customers that you’ve succeeded […]

Bayard Design is excited to offer an Engineering Analysis / Design Review for your product design for only $1950. This analysis will be conducted by one of our in-house engineers and includes: Recommendations for future analyses to be conducted to ensure a robust product (DFM) Design for Manufacturing suggestions (DFA) Design for Assembly advice Material […]

This year our annual holiday event was at Brooklyn Boulders in Union Square Somerville. A good time was had by all! Followed up by attending the very funny Open Mic Night at Sally O’Brien’s (because Aeronaut was closed – why Ben why?)

All of the Mechanical Engineers are now Certified SolidWorks Professionals! According to Dassault System “each CSWP has proven their ability to design and analyze parametric parts and moveable assemblies using a variety of complex features in SOLIDWORKS software.” In other words no spaghetti models and rapid, accurate design changes from our team.

Bayard Design LLC is proud to announce our sponsorship of Medical Development Group Boston (MDG-Boston) for the 2019 and 2020 series of events. Founder and Principal Matthew De Remer says “MDG is a great resource in the Boston area entrepreneur and medical device engineering communities. As far back as the Newton corner Bertucci’s days you […]

Great job ecobee! Press Release Below: Pioneered to Perfection: Introducing The New ecobee SmartThermostat with voice control Category creator unveils next generation thermostat packed with the power you would expect from a smartphone TORONTO – June 3, 2019 – Redesigned and reengineered, ecobee today introduced a new smart thermostat for the digital age. The new ecobee […]

As the team has expanded at Bayard Design its easy to lose sight of the breadth of talent we now have available. Our current aggregate is: 35 Years of Product Design and Engineering Experience – 11 US Patents – 6 SolidWorks Certifications

Applications are open for the next Make the Breast Pumps Not Suck Hackaton at MIT Media Lab!   The 2014 hackaton was a great event and helped embolden multiple start ups in this space and also pushed some of the established players to better meet the needs of users.   I’d encourage anyone with something to offer […]

Great news for TransMedics! An FDA advisory panel yesterday recommended that the federal safety watchdog approve a device made by TransMedics to keep donated lungs perfused during transport to transplantation procedures. The FDA’s Gastroenterology & Urology Devices panel voted 11-2 that the OCS Lung system is safe; 8-5 that it’s effective; and 9-4 that its benefits outweigh the risks, […]

Congratulations to Dr. Waleed Hassanein, CEO at TransMedics, for being named a finalist for the 2017 European Inventor Award Finalists.   Best of luck getting the top spot. Dr. Waleed Hassanein is being honored for developing the Organ Care System (OCS), a technique for preserving human organs outside the body three times longer than traditional cold storage. […]

If you’re in New York City this week check out the I Will What I Want: Women, Design, and Empowerment show at the Parsons School of Design.   It will feature the Make the Breast Pump Not Suck! documentary featuring Bayard Design LLC consultant Matthew De Remer in a non-speaking role. I Will What I Want: Women, Design, […]

The Bayard Design LLC team can now be reached at  617-477-0617.    Please update your contact lists. Likewise our fax number has been updated to 617-995-0887.  

We’re super excited for Corindus Vascular Robotics of Waltham MA for getting 510k approval for their next generation CorPath GRX robotic PCI system.   Bayard Design consultant Matt De Remer led the effort to design its extended reach arm that allows the unit to be used for both radial and femoral PCI insertion locations.  

Great post on the bolt blog talking about how hardware start ups fail.   It really hits the nail right on the head with a couple quotes and graphics namely “There’s a valley of death for hardware startups. Ironically, it occurs when companies start selling their product.” This really speaks to the transition stage between […]

Last fall Bayard Design consultant Matthew De Remer participated in a weekend long event at the MIT Media Lab dedicated to improving breast pump technology for nursing mothers.  The “Make the Breast Pump Not Suck” Hackathon  was a multi-disciplined event encompassing engineers, designers, lactation consultants, nursing mothers and other interested parties.   Matt’s team ultimately […]

Inventors are often very concerned that their great ideas could be usurped.   After all if you came up with a great idea couldn’t someone else?   If you tell someone about it could they steal it?  These are not invalid concerns, but I would caution against spending a great deal of money up front […]

According to Design News the DoD put down some big money to help develop Digital Manufacturing. As part of President Obama’s promise to invest in innovation in American manufacturing, the US Department of Defense has awarded Chicago-based UI Labs $70 million to open the Digital Lab for Manufacturing, a research and commercialization institution for the […]

SparkFun posted a great primer on FCC approval for hobbyists.   Agency approvals are sometimes forgotten by entrepreneurs and inventors with horrible results.   Here are some high points:  Even devices which do not use radio transmitters? Yes, because in the right (or wrong) circumstances, any device which contains a relatively high speed clock (above the low […]

Amazon has taken a calculated risk in heavily advertising their new Kindle Fire tablets without FCC approval.   This will most likely pay off given that they got to announce a week before Apple’s possible iPad press event and that they are unlikely not be approved by the FCC.   Moreover given the timing Amazon is likely already […]

Important Announcement from RedEye April 16, 2012 I am pleased to share some exciting news with you. Today we announced that RedEye’s parent company, Stratasys, and Objet have reached an agreement to merge, creating an even stronger company better positioned for growth. As you may know, Objet is a leading manufacturer of 3D printers for […]

We’re happy to announce that Matthew De Remer, a Principal at Bayard Design, has had 2 more patents published for his work with QinetiQ North America on their TrainTrak product line. These products were featured in 2 Weeks in Hell, a Discovery Channel special on Special Forces training.   

Although SLA samples are generally regarded as not biologically compatible, DSM has successfully tested 2 of their resins to USP IV. Somos® WaterShed XC 11122 resin – a clear, durable, water resistant material – has been tested and approved for USP Class VI in biomedical and skin contact applications. DSM reports that the ABS-like material passed  ISO 10993-5 Cytotoxicity, ISO 10993-10 […]

There was a great article in Design News this month on the importance of mold design as it relates to part design and quality: The four simple rules are: Establish nominal wall thickness. Allow draft to make it possible to easily remove the part from the mold cavity. Watch rib-to-wall ratio. The section where a […]

On the heels of the very rapid failure of the HP TouchPad, Phil McKinney, CTO at HP, has offered 7 Immutable Laws of Innovation: 1)      The Law of Leadership: Executive level support (Board, CEO and his/her direct reports) is critical for an organization that wants to have innovation at is core… 2)      The Law of Culture: […]

As reported in the Boston Phoenix presidential hopefuls for 2012 are being asked to sign a pledge to “to attend two days of training on the Lean Six Sigma method . . . prior to…inauguration.”  There is apparently more attached to the pledge than that and considering that the vast majority of Lean Six Sigma […]

In my last post I lamented that one of the biggest barriers to inventors and entrepreneurs is the sometimes high cost of tooling and how Kickstarter.com and crowd sourcing could be the answer.  No sooner had I write that then Proto Labs, the parent of Protomold and Firstcut CNC, dropped this e-mail into my inbox. […]

KickStarter has emerged as an awesome way to validate product ideas and get the capital to launch those ideas.  One of my friends, who works in the non-profit realm, first brought KickStarter to my attention as a new form of crowd charitable giving.  I tucked the site into my bookmark list as a potential way to do a […]

Here’s an interesting post about using social media as a tool in product development. To many, the process of developing a successful product can be a mystery. Sometimes companies will spend months of development time to create a product that doesn’t reflect the needs or the scope of its intended market… After we have used our monitoring […]

Great National Geographic article on the state of the art in heart disease treatment….  even though its 3 years old its very timely.  Lots of Boston area companies make the products behind this article.  Kudos to them.

I buy into the argument made by a new white paper by Blue Ridge Numerics that doing a CFD can save tens of thousands of dollars.  Even if proof of concept units work well a thermal or structural failure can occur during more rigorous alpha or beta testing potentially wasting the cost of those units […]

Pantone has picked Turquoise as the color of the year for 2010.  I’m not sure how observed this is, but InCase is already making 2010 color iPod cases…

There was a great article in last month’s Wired Magazine.  It celebrates the power that the individual inventor has in today’s world to develop and sell his or her invention independent of a large corporation.  One might think that this would threaten a firm like Bayard Design. On the contrary these same forces ultimately lower […]

Please ask your senator and representative to remove the proposed medical device tax from their chamber’s respective health care reform bills. We had taken a neutral view towards the proposed tax in order to allow the facts and details to come out.  Now that they have, in among other places MD+DI magazine, it clearly and […]

More Great News for Harmonix: With steady sales throughout the holiday season, The Beatles: Rock Band has sold over one million copies worldwide. News of the sales milestone comes via both Gamespot and Industry Gamers,according to information they obtained from a Harmonix spokesperson. The wider Rock Band franchise also recently hit another major milestone, as […]

After 3 years of having a handmade HTML website Bayard Design is transitioning to a Word Press/SQL/PHP/CSS based website.  Yes, welcome to 2010.  I know. One of the many enhancements will be a blog to chronicle our achievements and those of our current or former customers.

Its great to see a worthwhile, life saving product in use — especially one you had a hand in developing. Although not visible in the trailer or other clips available currently on-line, the QinetiQ North America PSM and Solider Tracker (Locator) system were on display for about 20 minutes of the episode when a Special […]

Bayard Design Principal Design Engineer Matthew De Remer passed the Certified SolidWorks Professional exam.

The World Intellectual Property Oganization has awarded WIPO Patent number WO/2009/099939 – Organ Care System to Bayard Design Principal Design Engineer Matthew De Remer.  This was for past work he did for TransMedics, Inc. on their Organ Care [and transport] System.

The US Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Bayard Design Principal Design Engineer Matthew De Remer a patent for his past work as an employee of Pollak Switch Products Division (now Stoneridge-Pollak).