February 26, 1998

BATTELLE MEDICAL PRODUCTS OFFERS CAPABILITIES BROCHURE

Battelle's Medical Products has produced a comprehensive new brochure that details the group's varied capabilities.

The brochure is available to potential clients and any writer or editor interested in:

• Battelle's "Breakthrough Center": This state-of-the-art center is the starting point for product development efforts. Interdisciplinary teams use digital projection equipment, a visual text analysis system, and exclusive software for building three-dimensional models and virtual reality demonstrations to creatively identify and define new products.

• Integrated Product Development: This process weaves market assessment, product definition, engineering, industrial design, human factors, regulatory strategy, and manufacturing planning into a seamless process to maximize innovation, reduce time-to-market, and improve quality.

• Surgical Environments & Technology Center: This center, based in Boulder, Colo., delivers high value product development service to manufacturers and marketers of surgical products, equipment, and systems, worldwide.

• Pulmonary Delivery Therapeutics: Battelle is the premier provider for the identification and development of pulmonary delivery drugs and administering devices.

• Sterile Disposables: Battelle designs and develops high quality, user-friendly, single-use packaged disposable products.

• Polymers: Battelle works in all areas where polymer technology is applied to medical products, including polymer development, coatings, films, and adhesives.

• Industrial Design: Through observation, task analysis, and interviews, industrial design team members develop user requirements to define the new product and guide its development.

• Human Factors and Ergonomics: Battelle's team of human factors engineers, psychologists, scientists, and biomedical engineers define appropriate relationships and functions for humans and machines.

• Quality Function Deployment: Battelle's team of professionals bring experience in gathering the appropriate information, conducting interviews, processing and prioritizing needs and wants, and translating them into effective product embodiments.