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

几十年来，女性卫生产品的设计一直保持不变；Callaly是一项新的创新，将改变这一局面。我们团队中的一位领先的妇科医生创造了一种新颖的、受专利保护的“混合”卫生棉条和卫生巾组合，为女性提供了一种舒适和卫生的阶梯变化。该产品融合了裤衬和卫生棉条的最佳功能，将它们结合在一起，形成了一种在使用过程中固有的更卫生的产品。到目前为止，我们的团队除了进行初步的有利用户试验并采取实质性步骤来设计概念IP外，还在手动基础上开发了我们的“混合”卫生棉条。我们现在的挑战，也是我们当前项目的主题，是将我们目前的手工设计转化为一种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--选择增强混合棉条功能的关键部件的材料；2--为制造而设计研究当前设备，以确保批量生产是可行和经济的；3-生产数量有限的混合棉条原型，以便能够进行验证性试验。

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.