Innovative People

Rahul Nair

Summary:

6+ year experience in Industrial design and New product design and development in the field of medical devices, consumer products, aquatic devices and furniture.
Masters in Industrial design (M-Des) from IIT Guwahati and graduated in mechanical engineering from Calicut University.
Attended International and national workshops, seminars and expos. Trained in CAD, Six-Sigma (Black belt), Mind mapping, Design of experiments, Vendor development and management, One time management, Internal auditors training (ISO 9001, 13485) from CIPET, SixSigma academy and other institutions.
Received several awards for my work and projects including letter of appreciation from Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.
Have passion and interest in Innovation and New product design and development.
Projects handled:

Medical devices:
1. Low cost multi use Sling system for stress urinary incontinence – (Concept to Pilot manufacturing)
2. Sacrospinous suspension of vagina - (Concept development to POC)
3. Low cost multi use trocar for Laparoscopic Surgeries – (Concept to Pilot manufacturing)
4. Vaginal tablet dispenser - (Concept development to DFMA)
5. Device for office based treatment for female stress urinary incontinence - (Concept development to Animation)
6. Device to prevent prostate enlargement (Concept development)
7. Hemostasis device (Concept development to pilot Manufacturing)
8. Device for Osteoarthritis – (Concept to Prototyping)
9. Concept development for new surgical approaches on following areas: Kidney stone management, Stoma management, Fecal incontinence, Uterine fibroids, Gall stone removal, Intraoperative nerve identification, etc…

Furniture design:
• Design and development of hybrid furniture.
• Coordinating and participating marketing, production, quality, design and management for new product development and improving existing products.
• Process design, Plant design.
• Machine/Tools identifying, specifying and procuring for the products.
• Product packaging and handling issues for the same to customer level.
• Vendor management and development for quality assurance.
• Value engineering, Product costing and analysis
• Providing training for production and quality team

Aquatic devices:
• All whether Indoor rain-dance discotic arena.
• River system with boat ride and interactive gaming.
• Water park boat.
• Water shooting guns.

Playground equipment:
• Multi activity play system
• Outdoor fitness equipment
• General playground equipment


Other projects:
• Multi Use Compatible Spike guard with USB port
• Jewelry packaging.
• Adaptors – For battery recharging.
• Scotch tape dispenser.
• Water dispenser.
• CAD Molding.
• Design and development of Machine for continuous chain coating.


Patents:

1. Detecting leakage from an internal surgical site (US20150018855A1)
2. Ureteral Anastomotic device and method (US9050163B2)
3. Systems and methods for implantable drainage device
4. Systems and methods for Y-shaped bypass balloon for fluid drainage
5. Y-shape flexible catheter device for fluid drainage


Skills:

• Software: CATIA V5, Solidworks, AutoCAD, Photoshop.
• Others : Product innovation, Concept generation, Product detailing, Ergonomic concern, Prototyping, Photography

Languages Rahul Nair speaks:

English
Hindi