Inhalation devices

It may appear simple, but we know just how deceptively complex it can be to successfully design and industrialise an inhaler.

Achieving a design that performs consistently across the range of operating environments, copes with all foreseeable use and misuse scenarios and functions correctly in all component tolerance combinations, is a challenge. It’s a challenge that is magnified by the need to manufacture a device economically in very high volumes.

Our approach is to seek to understand and prove the basic principles of any design as early as possible. We use a broad range of tools including mathematical and computational modelling, rig manufacture and testing, tolerance analysis, FMEA, and user research to inform and guide design decisions and concept selection.

Our design and analysis work with global pharmaceutical and device companies includes pressurised metered dose inhalers, breath actuated inhalers, dry powder inhalers, dose counters and regimen assistance / assurance devices.