The spirit of the Van der Stähl Scientific daily walk was built out of a genesis of fitness and sound body, and this is evident in that we have lost approximately one hundred forty pounds of weight combined. But the much more profound benefit of this daily junket is the ambulatory intellectual round table that has generated dozens of ideas for packaging machinery. We have identified what we believe to be several shortcomings in so-called valiadatable packaging equipment.

This year the Van der Stähl Scientific group plans to apply for new patents to cover the technology borne out of these kinetic think tanks. We were just granted a patent for a new seal and test machine for sterile packaging. Clearly, there is something to be said about free-range thinking. Currently, our walks have been centered on a new technology in sterile packaging machinery that we truly believe will revolutionize how medical device pouches are sealed and validated. So, please feel free to visit our site often, as we believe that the technology borne from the Killson Project may well become the touchstone of sterile device packaging.

Free from the management style, soup du juor, and cubicle-sequestered thinking, our design team has been nothing short of prolific in terms of innovative ideas generated from our daily walking meetings. Our product development philosophy is similar to that of great companies such as Hewlett-Packard, where engineering ideas are developed during aggressive brainstorming sessions.

Although we believe heavily in a strong, evolving continuum of technology for packaging equipment in development, we also understand that technology development for the sake of development can be problematic. From the very early days of new product development, we agreed not to generate bells-and-whistles, so-called "tradeshow features" to keep one flashing light ahead of our competitors. Our goal is to design, integrate, and build technology that makes sense. This includes technology that will truly aid in the quality of the seals created by packaging machinery as well as sensible functional interfaces that can streamline critical processes such as sterile device validation.

On the other hand, our design team also understands the danger of the feedback-loop, a system where ideas only generate from a small thinking environment or universe. We are constantly looking outside our design group for technology that can be improved, integrated, and adopted for the technology we are developing.

However, our group is very frustrated with companies that look only outside their company to evaluate what competitors are doing and develop products only as a knee-jerk competitive reaction. We invite you to stop by our booth at the upcoming MD&M west tradeshow and talk with us about medical device packaging. Thanks for stopping by our site today.