Key Innovation
Virtual simulation caught design flaws before physical builds began.
Continuous Glucose Monitoring
Client
Dexcom
Practice Areas
Smart Medical Devices
Core Disciplines
Overview
For more than a decade, Triple Ring has partnered with continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) manufacturer Dexcom to support the rapid evolution of product designs in response to customer demands and increasing market competition. Dexcom CGM systems are wearable medical devices that continuously track glucose levels and deliver real-time data to connected devices, enabling improved diabetes management.
Across multiple generations of CGM devices, Triple Ring contributed analytical expertise and design inputs that enabled new features, improved manufacturability, and supported high-volume production. This long-term collaboration helped shorten development timelines and accelerate the release of successive CGM platforms.
Challenge
As Dexcom’s CGM products evolved, market forces required rapid improvements in usability, reliability, and manufacturability while maintaining high performance and production efficiency. The development of next-generation CGM devices required resolving complex design behaviors, managing manufacturing variability, and supporting large-scale production.
Dexcom engaged Triple Ring at critical points in development to address these technical challenges while maintaining aggressive timelines for new product releases.
Continuous Glucose Monitoring
Overview
For more than a decade, Triple Ring has partnered with continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) manufacturer Dexcom to support the rapid evolution of product designs in response to customer demands and increasing market competition. Dexcom CGM systems are wearable medical devices that continuously track glucose levels and deliver real-time data to connected devices, enabling improved diabetes management.
Across multiple generations of CGM devices, Triple Ring contributed analytical expertise and design inputs that enabled new features, improved manufacturability, and supported high-volume production. This long-term collaboration helped shorten development timelines and accelerate the release of successive CGM platforms.
Challenge
As Dexcom’s CGM products evolved, market forces required rapid improvements in usability, reliability, and manufacturability while maintaining high performance and production efficiency. The development of next-generation CGM devices required resolving complex design behaviors, managing manufacturing variability, and supporting large-scale production.
Dexcom engaged Triple Ring at critical points in development to address these technical challenges while maintaining aggressive timelines for new product releases.
Client
Dexcom
Practice Areas
Smart Medical Devices
Core Disciplines
Mechanical Engineering
Systems Engineering
Transfer to Manufacture
Solution
Triple Ring applied deep expertise in device development, mechanism analysis, finite-element simulation, and empirical testing to support the design and optimization of Dexcom’s CGM platforms.
By leveraging system-level modeling and complex empirical characterization, Triple Ring enabled Dexcom to model the effects of manufacturing variability across hundreds of thousands of virtual devices. This approach allowed the identification of unforeseen design sensitivities early in development, when design changes were less costly and more effective.
Development efforts included:
- Designing automated one-touch deployment mechanisms
- Conducting system-level modeling to evaluate design performance
- Developing testing strategies to capture real-world device behavior
- Refining designs to improve manufacturability and yield
Solution
Dexcom, together with Triple Ring, developed and optimized a fully automated one-touch deployment mechanism for the award-winning G6 platform. Five years later, the G7 successor introduced a completely redesigned applicator that combined deployment of the wearable and sensor into a single step, reflecting continued advances in device integration and usability.
Triple Ring’s analytical and empirical strategies resolved undesirable device behaviors, improved model accuracy, and ensured robust product performance. These efforts significantly reduced time to market while enabling reliable, high-volume manufacturing.
The collaboration established Triple Ring as a long-term trusted partner supporting Dexcom’s continued innovation in diabetes management and improving quality of life for millions of patients.
Triple Ring Talent
The Story Behind the Innovation
At Triple Ring, we draw on a deep bench of expertise across diverse disciplines matched to each innovation challenge. For this project, our team combined mechanism analysis, finite-element simulation, system-level modeling, and empirical testing to help Dexcom design and optimize CGM platforms across multiple device generations — shortening timelines and enabling reliable, high-volume manufacturing.
Gabe and Thu collaborated with many talented colleagues across Triple Ring and Dexcom on this project.
Gabriel Chow, PhD
Materials Characterization & Development
Dr. Gabe Chow specializes in materials characterization and mechanical system development across macro to nanoscale environments. His work supports the design, testing, and reliability of advanced materials and mechanical systems, helping translate innovative concepts into durable, real-world solutions.
Thu Nguyen, PhD
Mechanical Systems & Device Development
Dr. Thu Nguyen specializes in human-centered mechanical systems, with expertise in exoskeleton control and movement optimization. Her work focuses on understanding how mechanical design interacts with human performance, helping teams develop solutions that improve function, reliability, and real-world usability.
