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Invetech

Industry	Product and technology development and contract manufacturing
Founded	1987
Headquarters	Melbourne, Australia San Diego, CA Zurich, Switzerland
Key people	Dr Colin White, President Warren Hancock, Director Bill Hill, Director Consumer & Industrial David James, Director Life Science and Pharmaceutical Andreas Knaack, Director Biomedical Instruments and Devices Roger Langsdon, Director Marketing Richard Stephens, Director Business Development Dan Schumann, Vice President and Operations Manager, San Diego
Number of employees	200+
Website	www.invetech.com.au/

Invetech is a contract product development and manufacturing company with in-house design and engineering capabilities to help develop breakthrough products and address complex automation challenges.

Invetech's origins go back to Cambridge Consultants in the early sixties in the UK. In 1970 Cambridge Consultants was acquired, and 3 of the Directors moved to PA Technology. In 1976 one of the Directors transferred to Melbourne, Australia, to set up PA Technology Asia Pacific. In 1986, changes in direction saw a management buyout of PA Technology Asia Pacific, transforming it into Invetech.

From a small Victorian-based start-up, Invetech is now a multinational company, employing more than 200 staff across 3 global locations including San Diego, California; Zurich, Switzerland and Melbourne, Australia.

Invetech provides product design, development, contract manufacturing and custom automation services for clients in a wide range of industries including diagnostics, life sciences, medical devices, consumer and industrial products.

Services

• Product development
  
• Instrument development
  
• Custom automation
  
• Contract manufacturing
  

See also

• Brainstorming
• Design management
• Design methods
• Design thinking
• Innovation
• Industrial design
• Custom automation
• Product design
• Contract manufacturing
• User centered design
• User experience

Industry Awards

2011 Australian Engineering Innovation Excellence Award:Organovo, Inc, 3D Bioprinter
FORBES Magazine -Coolest Products of the Decade:The Coca-Cola Company, Coca-Cola Freestyle®
2010 MDEA Gold Award: bioMérieux, Inc / LBT Innovations, PREVI Isola
2009 MDEA Silver Award: TearLab, Inc, TearLab osmolarity system
2008 Frost & Sullivan, Asia Pacific Industrial Technologies Award for Technology Innovation of the Year: CAP-XX Supercapacitor
2007 Design Award: Enttex Pty Ltd, P100 I154-07-08: P100
2006 Frost & Sullivan, Technology Innovation of the Year Award for Nanotech-Enabled Energy Devices Technology: CAP-XX Supercapacitor
2005 Design Award: Opdicom, Disk Stakka I080-05-06: Disc Stakka
2004 Design Award: Reckitt Benckiser, No View, No Touch Mousetrap I015-04-05: No See No Touch Mousetrap
2001 Design Award of the Year: Applied Imaging, SL50 Automated Slide Loader I042-01-02: SL50
2001 Design Award / Powerhouse Museum Award, The Woolmark Company , OPTIM Wool Fibre Processing Machine I213-01-02: Optim™ Wool Fibre Processing Machine

References

January 2011, Knowledge and Experience Diversity for IVD, By Jari Palander, IVD Technology
March 2010, Human Factors Engineering: Improving Medical Device Design to Ensure Safe, User-Friendly Medical Devices, By: Alan Morris and Andreas Knaack, DDT
Feb 2010, Printing body parts. Making a bit of me, The Economist
Jan 2010, Finding success through the IVD product definition process by Rob Danby IVDT
Dec 2009,Invetech delivers first production tissue printer by Nick Evans BioTechnologyNews.net
Sept 2009,Developing IVD instruments for emerging markets by Andreas Knaack IVDT
Oct 2008, Cellular Therapy Success Through Integrated Automation by Ian Fitzpatrick BioProcess International
Dec 2006, Creating a truly International Partnership by Chris Trembath, Editor MPO
March 2006, Mastering the Logic & Economics of Global R&D by Paul Wright MD&DI
April 2005, Sources of Innovation – where to look by Paul Wright CEO Forum
Feb 2005, Three levels of Innovation, by Paul Wright CEO Forum
Nov 2004, Innovation: why it matters, what it is, and how to build an innovation culture by Paul Wright CEO Forum
Jan 2004, Instrumentation development in parallel with product definition and core technology refinement by Fred Davis, Stephen Cocks, and Jari Palander)

External links

• Invetech [1]