Beachfront Design
The Next Wave of Medical Device Design and Development

Ever since value-based care became mainstream, the healthcare industry’s dependence on medical devices has increased rapidly. From patient monitoring to automated surgery, these devices are pushing the envelope of value-based care, looking to deliver numerous tangible benefits to the healthcare community.

However, changes of this magnitude do not occur without a fair share of hurdles.

For medical device companies, the need for modern-day features has complicated the design process and created a range of compliance and regulatory challenges. Development teams are often scrambling to incorporate new functions into existing devices. Many are in the dark as to the effects of these changes on the final device’s performance and state of compliance. These tweaks act as stumbling blocks for companies looking to bring their medical devices to market, amidst the more challenging pandemic-induced supply chain disruptions and talent scarcity.



Serving as a medical device design and development firm since 2015, Beachfront Design helps medical device companies mitigate these challenges and facilitate their product development initiatives. The company specializes in assisting clients with all their medical device design and development needs with its comprehensive service portfolio. The company is uniquely proficient in dealing with all aspects of product design, prototyping, product testing, pre-clinical studies, DHF creation and maintenance, program management, business models, and scale-up for commercialization—with a primary focus on urology, cardiopulmonary, urogynecology, orthopedic, and minimally invasive therapies.

At its core, Beachfront Design is a team of research and development professionals with results-driven leadership in engineering innovation, program management, and product development. The company’s in-depth know-how and extensive industry experience have helped them establish a proud and proven track record in developing talent, building engaged development teams, and delivering innovative products.

Since its inception, Beachfront Design has launched three game-changing medical devices to market, sent three medical devices to clinical studies, and has four products currently under development. The staff at Beachfront Design have demonstrated their creative talents as inventors on over 38 issued patents. Furthermore, the company’s technical skills in biomechanical systems, medical device design, mechanical engineering, and product development within the stage-gate process help make it a prominent player in the industry.

Flexibility: the Key to Success

“Our mission is to improve the lives of patients by meeting the needs of our clients through expert consultation,” says Kevin Arnal, Founder and Principal of Beachfront Design.

To this end, Beachfront Design can engage with clients in three distinct modes based on their varying needs. For medical device companies who wish to start from scratch, Beachfront will work with them to develop an initial idea into a feasible product design. Here, the company will serve as a valuable early partner, helping them derive the value of their idea and build a design model that can be presented for investor review.

However, if a client has already completed their concept phase and gained some investment, Beachfront Design serves as a reliable product development specialist to help them develop their product quickly and successfully. The company puts together a team of experts who work as an extension of clients’ team to provide them with the necessary resources and knowledge to meet their goal of launching their device to the market.

Beachfront Design also assists them in creating a complete design history file, device master record, and completes a seamless transfer to production. Assistance with regulatory submission is also part of the company’s expertise.

For contract manufacturers, Beachfront Design works as an extension of their team to provide unmatched design and development services for their clients. This is ideal for contract manufacturers looking to expand their bench strength and offer advanced design and development capabilities to their customers. The company can enhance clients’ operational efficiency and reduce time to market by leveraging its ability to develop products within contract manufacturers’ existing quality management systems. In essence, Beachfront Design serves as the go-to partner for all companies in the medical device space, irrespective of where they are in the product development lifecycle.

An All-Inclusive Portfolio

Beachfront Design’s core competency extends beyond product design and development; it offers end-to-end support to clients, helping launch their devices to market efficiently and quickly. By providing companies with a team of experts that can bring in creative ideas and leverage industry best practices, Beachfront Design drives innovation excellence to move them forward while also mitigating issues with talent shortage. In addition to its talent pool, the company also possesses an extensive partner network of contract manufacturers and suppliers that help clients attain better efficiency in the material supply chain. Combining this with its concept-to-production project management capabilities enables Beachfront Design to help clients kick off production without missing a beat.

Our mission is to improve the lives of patients by meeting the needs of our clients through expert consultation

Medical device companies can leverage team Beachfront Design for their customer interactions. In many instances, the company has helped present client ideas to their potential customers, physicians, and investors. Beachfront Design also excels in design for manufacturability (DFM) where its team works on optimizing the product design, making it more efficient and easier to manufacture. Embracing an iterative process allows for designing highly innovative and cost-effective products. The company is also well-versed in developing products within their clients’ quality management system—a key differentiator for Beachfront Design.



“We have extensive experience in delivery system development and electromechanical design, which are crucial for the successful development of medical devices,” states Arnal.

Moving forward with product development, Beachfront Design helps clients perform pre-clinical studies, ensure operational excellence, and launch their products to market. The company’s team also guides its clients through the complex regulatory and audit requirements, allowing them to carve their path forward—be it an exit strategy or commercializing the product to target marketplaces. Here, the team from Beachfront Design assists them in making their design history files and quality management systems compliant with the current regulatory standards.

From ideation to go to market, clients are led to success by Beachfront Design’s expertise in an efficient and cost-effective fashion.

Fostering a Customer-Centric Culture

None of this could be achieved without Beachfront Design’s collaborative client engagement approach. A typical process begins with the company digging deep into clients’ business goals and operational challenges and identifying their end-user dynamics. After gaining a complete picture of what clients need, the company works hand-in-hand with them to refine the device idea.

This is followed by formative usability studies with clients’ potential customers and physicians to evaluate the usability of devices and gain early requirements feedback. Beachfront Design then moves on to the design phase, where its team builds the best possible design to help clients achieve their business goals in terms of functionality, performance and budget. Committed to ensuring products’ manufacturability, the company adopts DFM techniques to optimize the design and provide manufactured products for design verification. It also supports clients in regard to intellectual property rights. Throughout the design process, Beachfront Design keeps clients in the loop, with an opportunity to review and provide feedback, ultimately developing something that enhances care delivery and generates ROI.

Beachfront Design then performs summative usability tests to validate the overall medical device design, ensure that the design meets clients’ and their customers’ specific requirements, mitigate device risk and achieve usability goals for the product. Once clients have complete confidence in the product’s potential, the company prepares for regulatory filing and production of the device. Simultaneously, it prepares the documentation for the regulatory group to conduct the audit and helps clients complete all necessary procedures to make the device compliant. In the end, clients have highly competitive, regulatory compliant and cost-effective medical devices ready to launch into the market.

Bringing Excellence to the Real World

Beachfront Design’s service suite, industry experience, and personalized care model have helped it garner several satisfied customers. For instance, the company has recently collaborated with a client looking to launch a new medical device in the orthopedic space. Though they had a robust initial concept, their design prototype was simplistic, did not provide the desired ergonomics, and was not ideal for manufacturing. Beachfront Design worked closely with the client to develop their idea, bring the latest technology to their device, optimized the look and feel and produced a manufacturable design that achieved cost targets. Physicians have reported that the new product has created a new standard for care delivery in the orthopedic space. It enabled the healthcare community to perform a clinical procedure— that regularly took about an hour—in less than five minutes without any large incisions.

In another clients’ case, Beachfront Design demonstrated the company’s ability and willingness to go over and beyond the clients’ expectations to mitigate the challenges and lead them to success. Considering the pandemic-induced supply chain disruptions, Beachfront Design sourced all necessary materials ahead of time in order to provide them with a seamless production experience. When suppliers warned they may miss their delivery dates, Beachfront Design negotiated an updated delivery schedule with targeted shipments to meet the needs of the development schedule. Team Beachfront Design worked closely with the client and navigated them through all processes—from concept to production—to develop their device in a 12-month timeframe on time and $200K under budget.

Successes like these are stepping stones for Beachfront Design to continue and augment its design and development in the medical device space. Moving ahead, the company aims to go beyond urology, cardiopulmonary, urogynecology, orthopedic, and minimally invasive therapies, extending its areas of expertise to other branches in the industry. The next big thing for Beachfront Design is to incorporate additional bench strength, establishing itself as a go-to one-stop medical device design and development service provider globally.