Medical device design consultancy
Helping you solve tough engineering challenges, reduce risk early, and bring commercially viable devices to market.
From the earliest concept, the decisions you make shape everything that follows. As a medical device design consultancy, we support you across the full product lifecycle. With over 38 years’ experience, we help you navigate the critical design decisions - balancing performance, usability, manufacturability and risk - to ensure your device performs reliably, scales effectively and succeeds beyond the prototype.
Getting the critical decisions right from the start
Early system-level decisions define long-term performance and must withstand the demands of patient use, clinical practice, regulatory scrutiny and manufacturing at scale.
Through close collaboration with your team, we focus on getting these decisions right from the outset. By integrating engineering, scientific, human factors, regulatory and manufacturing constraints early, we help ensure your design remains robust as development progresses.
With a team of 300+ experts, we support MedTech teams through complex device development, navigating the trade-offs between performance, usability, manufacturability and downstream risk.
Independent and factory-agnostic, we provide continuous technical leadership from first-in-kind concept through to pilot production - helping you avoid late-stage surprises and resolve the system-level challenges that ultimately determine success.
TTP’s scientific team ‘went the extra mile’ time and again by asking questions, identifying and pursuing pathways, and presenting complete solutions to unforeseen findings.
Dr Paul Goode
Glucotrack, USA
Bringing clarity and structure across complex MedTech device development
Complex medical devices demand disciplined systems engineering. Decisions must be resolved upfront to avoid downstream conflict and redesign, where issues become harder and more costly to fix.
As medical device product development consultants, we bring these elements together into a coherent framework, drawing on extensive experience delivering complex, regulated medical devices, so you can move forward with confidence.
Our capabilities include:
- Early-stage technology feasibility and systems architecture
- Risk-led product development
- Human factors and usability
- Embedded regulatory compliance (FDA, ISO 13485)
- Verification, validation and manufacturing transfer
- Software and embedded systems development
All delivered through ISO 13485-certified processes.
Turning development challenges into progress
MedTech companies turn to TTP when timelines are tight and development needs to move forward with clarity and confidence, bringing structure to complex decisions, resolving technical uncertainty and keeping progress on track.
- Deep technical expertise - Experienced, multidisciplinary teams solving complex engineering and scientific challenges.
- Accelerated time to market - Clear decision-making, rapid prototyping and integrated development reduce delays and keep programmes moving forward.
- Commercially grounded solutions - We balance usability, technical performance and manufacturing realities to strengthen product viability from day one.
- End-to-end technical leadership - ISO 13485-compliant development, maintaining design intent and reducing handover risk.
- Proven delivery in complex environments - We deliver where challenges are new, difficult or highly regulated, bringing clarity and forward momentum to your project.
- Integrated, collaborative approach - We work as an extension of your team, maintaining continuity and avoiding unnecessary friction or redesign.
A track record built on delivery
Our experience is grounded in real-world delivery across complex and regulated environments. It reflects a measured, consistent approach to solving difficult engineering and development challenges.
- 38+ years of medical device design and development experience
- 300+ engineers, scientists and human factors specialists - all under one roof
- ISO 13485-certified development and manufacturing processes
- 1,100m² of dedicated manufacturing facilities, including cleanrooms, microfabrication and assembly
- Extensive experience supporting regulatory approval across multiple medical device programmes
- Seamless transition from prototype through to clinical builds and manufacturing transfer
Deep, proven expertise across MedTech domains
Our teams have deep expertise in specific MedTech domains, combining market insight, rapid onboarding and informed decision-making built on decades of experience.
Neurotechnology
Developing neuromodulation and neural interface systems, from proof-of-concept to scale-up.
Biosensors
Engineering wearable and implantable sensors from concept through to commercial launch.
Cardiovascular
Developing diagnostic, interventional and therapeutic cardiovascular technologies.
Surgical systems
Transforming complex surgical, minimally invasive and navigation concepts into clinically ready tools and platforms.
Ophthalmology
Developing ophthalmic diagnostics, implant technologies and surgical innovations.
Drug delivery
Engineering advanced drug delivery devices across injection, respiratory and targeted therapies.
Speak to one of our experts
Catherine Wyman
Catherine leads the Eyecare team at TTP. With a strong background in mechanical engineering and project leadership, Catherine excels at guiding multidisciplinary teams. An expert and enthusiast in the eyecare market, she is always keen to learn about opportunities for TTP to develop new products that will change the market and patients’ lives.
Chris Dawson
Chris Dawson leads the Biosensing team at TTP, bringing deep experience in taking technologies from proof of concept through to scaled production. Holding a PhD in engineering from Brunel University, he collaborates with ambitious clients to develop and commercialise innovative sensing technologies across a wide range of real-time clinical sensing applications, including continuous glucose monitoring (CGM).
Will Cramer
Will Cramer leads TTP Manufacturing, delivering low to medium volume production of consumables, devices, and instruments to ISO13485 standards. A mechanical engineer with over 25 years’ experience across medical, life science, consumer, and industrial markets, he previously served as VP Engineering and Production at a TTP spin-out. Will holds a master’s in engineering from Cambridge University.
Justin Buckland
Justin is the technical lead for multiphysics analysis and sensor development at TTP. He holds a PhD in Surface Physics from the University of Cambridge and has played a pivotal role in the development of a wide range of sensing technologies including microfluidic, electrochemical, acoustic and piezoelectric.
Meet some of the team
Catherine Wyman
Chris Dawson
Will Cramer
Justin Buckland
Medical device manufacturing at TTP
The hardest part of manufacturing isn’t volume, but the transition from design into regulated production. TTP bridges that gap by helping you develop the device and the manufacturing process in parallel, supporting agile clinical and early production builds. With no minimum volumes, no CMO lock-in, and no process IP constraints, you retain control of your product and supply chain.
Software capability at TTP
Engages in all stages of software and product development, our software capability at TTP covers the full spectrum–from in-depth analysis and system architecture, to prototype design, implementation and development.
Frequently asked Questions
A medical device design consultancy provides specialist engineering, scientific and human factors expertise to support the design and development of medical devices. This can include everything from early-stage feasibility and system architecture through to verification, regulatory support and manufacturing readiness. The role of a consultancy is to help teams navigate complex technical and commercial decisions, accelerating development while reducing risk.
You should engage a medical device design consultancy as early as possible, particularly when defining system architecture, technical feasibility and key design decisions. Early involvement helps identify and retire risks before they escalate, reducing costly redesign and improving confidence as development progresses.
TTP stands apart through the depth of our technical expertise, our ability to handle complex problems, our multidisciplinary teams, and our track record of delivering solutions that work in the real world.
We combine deep scientific understanding, solid engineering expertise and practical design thinking to take on challenges others haven’t yet resolved. Our teams bring clarity to difficult or uncertain areas — whether that’s shaping early concepts, resolving specific technical issues, or supporting development through to manufacture transfer.
We work as an extension of our clients’ teams or take ownership of entire programmes, bringing the same level of rigour, pace and accountability in both cases - helping teams make sound decisions, reduce risk, and keep projects moving.
The result is solutions that are manufacturable, commercially grounded, and fit for purpose - delivered with fewer surprises along the way.
We support both. TTP can act as an end-to-end product development partner or provide targeted support at specific stages such as feasibility, system design, human factors, verification or manufacturing readiness.
We support a wide range of devices, including wearable and implantable systems, minimally-invasive surgical, navigational and imaging tools, drug delivery and injection devices, opthalmic solutions and diagnostic platforms. Our experience spans multiple MedTech domains, allowing us to tackle multidisciplinary challenges.
We collaborate with ambitious, venture-backed start-ups, scale-ups, and established global MedTech leaders developing breakthrough technologies. Whether expanding established product lines or creating something entirely new, our clients share a drive to solve complex challenges, and the commitment to turn bold ideas into successful commercial outcomes.
We work as an extension of your team, providing hands-on technical leadership and maintaining continuity throughout development. This avoids handover friction and supports faster, more aligned decision-making.
Risk is reduced through early, well-informed decisions - when issues can still be addressed without costly rework. By challenging assumptions at the fundamentals and considering the full system: technical, regulatory, human, and manufacturing, we identify and resolve risks before they surface later in development. This avoids delays and builds confidence in the path forward.
Read more about our approach to navigating risk.
Although we do not provide regulatory consultancy or manage submission processes, we do design and develop devices within the appropriate regulatory frameworks to ensure that our clients are set up for success.
By embedding the right level of regulatory structure early, we help teams gain long-term development efficiency and reduce risk. Our ISO 13485–compliant quality management system, including certified processes for the manufacture of medical devices, is designed to accelerate development while maintaining full traceability. It is flexible enough to integrate with a client’s own systems, ensuring smooth transfer of documentation, evidence, and decisions throughout the project.
From concept feasibility through to verification and transfer to manufacture, we design with compliance in mind. Our multidisciplinary teams combine deep technical expertise with strong regulatory fluency, embedding safety and performance considerations at every stage. The result is a more robust product, fewer late-stage surprises, and a clearer, faster route to regulatory submission, turning compliance from a requirement into a genuine development advantage. This regulatory fluency is embedded at every level: within individuals, project teams, and our organisational systems.
Our tailored development framework and flexible QMS allow us to apply the right regulatory processes at the right time, helping clients progress confidently and efficiently toward market readiness.
Read more about our approach to regulatory compliance
Many innovations stall between prototype and production because manufacturing at low volumes is complex, costly, and risky. TTP’s ISO 13485-certified manufacturing capability fills this gap, producing hundreds or thousands of consistent, reliable devices for clinical trials, pilot launches, or verification. By developing and validating scalable processes early, we make the later transfer to full-scale manufacture smoother, faster, and lower risk.
Read more about our medical device manufacturing capabilities
We embed human factors engineering from the outset, combining early user research and behavioural insight to understand how patients and clinicians will interact with a device in practice - not just in theory.
Through structured risk analysis, iterative prototyping and usability testing, we refine designs to reduce use-related errors while improving ease of use, efficiency and overall experience. Aligned with ISO and FDA guidance, this approach ensures devices are not only safe and ready for regulatory approval, but also intuitive to use and suited to real-world clinical and home environments.
Read more about our approach to human-centred design and human factors engineering.
