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Altran Solutions provides a range of engineering consulting and analytical services to biomedical and pharmaceutical clients. Leveraging the engineering and scientific expertise within the organization, we have successfully and creatively solved a wide variety of manufacturing and development problems posed by medical device and pharmaceutical companies.

Medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers often require technical support for their engineering and analytical work. The work provided must be of high quality due to the critical nature of their products and services. Medical device engineering projects require strong engineering and scientific expertise and experience. Altran's employees represent a range of fields, including biomedical, corrosion, mechanical, metallurgical, and plastics engineering, as well as chemistry and microbiology. Our expertise is augmented through Altran Solutions' ties to faculty from MIT, Harvard, and other leading research institutions.

All of our work is performed under the Altran Quality Assurance program. All laboratory testing activities performed under cGLP/cGMPs.

We look at:

• Materials section and evaluation
• Product qualification
• Mechanical qualification
• Cyclic use operation
• Antimicrobial effectiveness
• Biocorrosion evaluation
• Device re-use feasibility
• Coating integrity
• Adhesive evaluation
• Packaging qualification
• Stress analysis
• Manufacturing scale-up
• Polymer formulation

Corrosion of Medical Devices -- A medical device must be able to withstand the corrosive environment associated with body fluids and components of the cellular immune system. Corrosion of medical devices may cause system reactions, local inflammatory reactions and material or structural changes to the device itself. Altran Solutions Materials Science and Engineering Center conducted a series of tests on stent material to determine its corrosion characteristics. Leaching rates were supplied to the manufacturer who, in turn, used the data to support FDA qualification of the stent.