Case Study: LUNAR accelerates low-cost intraosseous device design with Carbon

Accelerating the design cycle for a life-saving intraosseous device

LUNAR, an award-winning design firm now part of McKinsey Design, needed to create a manually operated, single-use intraosseous infusion device for the Indian market. The challenge was to deliver a simple, low-cost, biocompatible product that could be manufactured efficiently while still meeting demanding functional requirements for grip, strength, and sterilization compatibility. Carbon’s 3D Manufacturing technology, Digital Light Synthesis™ (DLS™), was used to support the effort.

Carbon helped LUNAR rapidly iterate and simplify the device design, reducing a multi-part assembly into a single-material part with fewer components and fewer points of failure. With Carbon, the team produced three design iterations in four weeks instead of the typical four to six months, and they added handle texture without retooling or post-processing. The final design improved assembly speed, reduced complexity and cost, and enabled a faster path to market for a life-saving medical device.

LUNAR

Lucas Menanix

Engineer