Flextronics Opens Medical Design Center in Milan, Italy

Flextronics' officials announce the opening of its new showcase medical design center located in Milan, Italy. This Design and Industrialization Center, which provides services to customers in the medical industry, is ISO 13485 certified and provides world-class expertise for FDA class II and III medical devices, drug delivery devices, medical equipment, and disposables. The center provides services across design, program management, industrialization, and design transfer.

The center is equipped with the industry's latest equipment and a team of advanced medical design engineers with proven success in providing customers with advanced innovative design solutions and offerings that increase their competitiveness and decrease time to market.

The center is 53,800ft² and currently staffs approximately 200 design engineers with space for up to 21,500ft² of engineering labs. It includes advanced rapid prototyping machines, a New Product Introduction (NPI) lab for process development and small scale assembly in a controlled environment, engineering labs and a compliance testing metrology area.

"Flextronics is committed to providing our medical customers with the most advanced end-to-end supply chain solutions in the industry," states Mark Kemp, president of Flextronics Medical. "We are thrilled to celebrate the opening of our Milan Design Center and look forward to providing our medical customers extraordinary design solutions and innovation that will help them to achieve their objectives of product safety, full compliance, and innovation."