Cardinal Maturity Determination of Technology Development: Medical Device Development Case Study

DS 116: Proceedings of the DESIGN2022 17th International Design Conference

Year: 2022
Editor: Mario Štorga, Stanko Škec, Tomislav Martinec, Dorian Marjanović
Author: Soumya Ranjan Mishra, Kamran Behdinan
Series: DESIGN
Institution: University of Toronto, Canada
Section: Design for Healthcare
Page(s): 1313-1322
DOI number: https://doi.org/10.1017/pds.2022.133
ISSN: 2732-527X (Online)

Abstract

A novel application of Best Worst Method (BWM) enables one to incorporate the complexity of specific sub-criteria of technological development to assess its maturity with the pre-established Technology Readiness Level (TRL) framework. It utilizes the concept of Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods to determine the cardinality of endpoint quantitative processes. The model is used to determine the maturity of Class II Ventilators and to detect the consistency aspects for their selection.

Keywords: medical device development, systems engineering (SE), technology development, integrated product development