Continuous Glucose Monitoring
Practice Areas
Challenge
For the past 10 years, Triple Ring has assisted pioneering Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) manufacturer, Dexcom, in responding to customer demands and mounting competition. Dexcom has engaged Triple Ring at critical points in the company’s history as market forces required rapid evolution of product designs to address usability, reliability, and manufacturability. Triple Ring contributed critical analytical expertise and design inputs while simultaneously enabling new features and increasing manufacturing yields at high volume. Over time, Dexcom and Triple Ring collaborated seamlessly and efficiently to shorten time to market for 2 generations of CGM devices.
Outcomes
Dexcom, together with Triple Ring, developed and optimized a fully automated one-touch deployment mechanism for their award-winning G6 platform. Five years later, the G7 successor was released with a completely new applicator that combined deployment of the wearable and sensor into a single step. Triple Ring executed a mutually supportive analytical and empirical strategy to investigate design issues, resolving both undesirable behavior and generating real-life data for improving model accuracy. This approach maximized learning at each design cycle, ensured a robust and reliable product, and expedited time to market.
Value Propositions
- Deep experience in user-centered design and design for manufacture (DfM)
- Deep expertise in system-level analysis, mechanism analysis and finite element simulation
- Proven success in test development and fixture design for capturing complex phenomena
- Rapid execution of benchtop and preclinical testing
- Proven processes and approaches that significantly reduce time to market
Continuous Glucose Monitoring
Challenge
For the past 10 years, Triple Ring has assisted pioneering Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) manufacturer, Dexcom, in responding to customer demands and mounting competition. Dexcom has engaged Triple Ring at critical points in the company’s history as market forces required rapid evolution of product designs to address usability, reliability, and manufacturability. Triple Ring contributed critical analytical expertise and design inputs while simultaneously enabling new features and increasing manufacturing yields at high volume. Over time, Dexcom and Triple Ring collaborated seamlessly and efficiently to shorten time to market for 2 generations of CGM devices.
Outcomes
Dexcom, together with Triple Ring, developed and optimized a fully automated one-touch deployment mechanism for their award-winning G6 platform. Five years later, the G7 successor was released with a completely new applicator that combined deployment of the wearable and sensor into a single step. Triple Ring executed a mutually supportive analytical and empirical strategy to investigate design issues, resolving both undesirable behavior and generating real-life data for improving model accuracy. This approach maximized learning at each design cycle, ensured a robust and reliable product, and expedited time to market.
Value Propositions
- Deep experience in user-centered design and design for manufacture (DfM)
- Deep expertise in system-level analysis, mechanism analysis and finite element simulation
- Proven success in test development and fixture design for capturing complex phenomena
- Rapid execution of benchtop and preclinical testing
- Proven processes and approaches that significantly reduce time to market
Practice Areas
Background
By leveraging Triple Ring’s deep expertise in device development, mechanism analysis, finite-element simulation, system-level modeling, and complex empirical characterization, Dexcom was able to model the effects of manufacturing variability across hundreds of thousands of virtual devices. This approach enabled the identification of unforeseen design sensitivities early in the development process, when the implementation of changes was less costly and impactful to the overall system design. Triple Ring is proud to be a long-term trusted partner for Dexcom as they innovate in diabetes management and improve the quality of life for millions of patients.
Dexcom has been a tremendous partner, and we have thoroughly enjoyed working closely with them for over a decade now. They have a deeply technical team who share Triple Ring’s commitment to engineering rigor and excellence in medical devices and it has served as a great example of how investment in knowledge-driven product development strategies can deliver effective product solutions that positively impact patient lives.
Gabe Chow, Ph.D.
