Overcoming materials & manufacturing challenges for a novel feminine hygiene product - Calla Lily Personal Care Ltd

几十年来，女性卫生用品的设计一直保持不变;卡拉利是一项新的创新，将改变这种状况。我们团队中的一位领先妇科医生创造了一种新颖的、受专利保护的“混合”卫生巾和卫生垫组合，为女性提供了舒适和卫生的一步变化。该产品融合了卫生护垫和卫生棉条的最佳特性，使其在使用过程中更加卫生。迄今为止，我们的团队已经在手动基础上开发了我们的“混合型”卫生护垫，并进行了初步的用户试用，并采取了实质性的步骤来规划概念IP。我们现在面临的挑战，以及我们当前项目的主题，是将我们目前的手工设计转化为适合大规模生产的格式。为了实现这一转变，我们面临以下研发挑战：1 -增强混合棉塞功能的关键组件的材料选择; 2 -对当前设备进行制造研究的设计，以确保批量生产是可行的和经济的; 3 -生产有限数量的混合棉塞原型，以进行验证性试验。

The design of feminine hygiene products has remained unchanged for many decades; Callaly is a new innovation that will change this situation. A leading gynaecologist in our team has created a novel, patent protected “hybrid” tampon and sanitary pad combination that provides women with a step change in comfort and hygiene. The product fuses the best features of pantyliners and tampons combining them into a product that is inherently more hygienic during use.To-date our team has developed our “hybrid” tampon on a manual basis in addition to conducting initial favourable user trials and taking substantial steps to project the concept IP. Our challenge now, and the subject of our current project, is to translate our current handmade design into a format that is suitable for mass manufacturing. To make this transition we face the following research & development challenges: 1 – Material selection of key components that enhance the function of the hybrid tampon; 2 – Design for manufacture study on the current device to ensure volume production is feasible and economic; 3 – production of a limited number of prototype hybrid tampons to enable confirmatory trials to be conducted.