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The Award-Winning Product First Prototyped in Seattle at Moeller Design & Development Rapid Product Development Facility
"Seattle is known for many great things: coffee, music and software," said Nadra Angerman spokesman for Moeller Design & Development. "But what people might not know is many of the nationally known products used every day – from sporting goods to cell phones to medical devices – first originate in the form of a prototype at the Moeller Design & Development rapid product development facility in Seattle." LifePort® is manufactured by a leading developer of medical transplantation devices, Organ Recovery Systems and a leading developer of surgical tools to medical electronic systems, Zevex International. Seattle-based Moeller Design & Development delivers production cast urethane components to Organ Recovery Systems. Cast urethane is a rapid solution for marketing samples and test prototypes. It’s just one more alternative to low-volume production for the manufacturer when time constraints don’t allow for injection-molding. When textured and painted, cast urethane offers material properties similar to production like-plastics. The LifePort®, designed for preserving and transporting organs, will be used to as a prop in a story line when a helicopter containing a liver from an organ donor is hijacked from the roof of a Manhattan hospital: CSIs must find the perpetrators and the liver before the transplant patient dies. "CSI is known for its high-tech laboratory equipment, and that makes it a great venue for the debut of an award winning medical device," said Angerman. LifePort® represents contributions and advances in the design of medical products and a product development partnership between market-leading companies. "In order to be successful in today’s marketplace, companies must integrate design, engineering and manufacturing in a rapid environment," said Angerman. "Our expertise in state-of-the-art rapid prototyping and manufacturing technologies offers custom solutions for challenges often associated with rapid product development." The LifePort® Kidney Transporter is Organ Recovery Systems’ FDA cleared flagship device and used as a prop in the CSI:NY episode "Liver Let Die". The device was named one of the top 100 breakthrough technologies by Popular Science in its 2003 Best of What’s New Awards. It also earned the Medical Design Excellence Gold Award in 2004, the premier awards program for the medical technology community. Other LifePort® devices for the heart, liver and pancreas are in development.
About Moeller Design & Development
Nadra Angerman, Media Contact
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SEATTLE, WA / March 29, 2006 -- Moeller Design & Development, a leading product development services company with offices in Seattle, Portland and Missouri, today announced the award-winning LifePort® will be featured on network television "Liver Let Die" episode of CSI: NY.