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DPI (Dry Powder Inhaler) for Mankind Pharma

Mankind Pharma is one of the fastest growing pharmaceutical companies with interests in prescription drugs, OTC, FMCG, Veterinary products etc., The company approached Think Design with an objective to innovate a Dry Powder Inhaler.

Though the DPI market in India is saturated with variety of offerings, Think Design felt that there is still a scope for developing world class product for “single dosage” which could be effecient, innovative and affordable at the same time. With this belief, we ventured on to create successful and most efficient Drypowder inhaler in Indian market today.

We are presenting here, the process of innovation(and choose not to post final product online)

USER, TECHNICAL AND MARKET RESEARCH

Clockwise from Top-left: 1) Product comprison analysis, post market survey, 2) Testing of the benchmark inhaler, 3) Drawing parallels, understanding from succesful parallel product-systems, 4) Rough, low fidelity mockups (paper models, in this case), tested for performance, 5) Design proposals, mechanism proposals, packaging proposals,etc., looking at the product, system and environment holistically, 6) Prototyping and testing of the proposals (in all, Think Design created upto 80 working prototypes to develop the succesful product)

Our Involvement

Research, Product Definition, Conceptualization, Prototyping and Validation, Tooling Coordination, Patenting Support

APPROACH

DPI is a combination of three essential aspects: The device itself, The capsule containing the drug and The container in which the device is carried by the user... In order to create a winning innovation, it was important to address all the three aspects comprehensively.

PROCESS OUTLINE