Custom design advantage

We can already deduce that, due to the characteristics of the active medium, compact and miniaturized devices are attainable for semiconductor lasers. This fact, together with the possibility of custom-designed systems, constitutes a real advantage from the viewpoint of integrated opto-electronic devices. In the field of spectroscopy, they are commonly used as pumping sources for other types of solid state lasers, as will be seen later. 

By custom designing the pipe laminate, superior axial strength and stiffness can be achieved. This can be used to advantage to increase... 

Future biomedical applications of polymers will certainly profit from the design of new biomimetic polymers, which allow a specific interaction with living cells and tissues. Recent developments in this field not only demonstrate the advantages of these custom-designed polymers, but also highlight the still-existing limitations, like the difficulty to achieve cell selectivity or unspecific interaaions with biological fluids. Nevertheless, biomimetic polymers are already used in many clinical applications and can therefore be considered as one of the most important fields of current medical advances. 

Modular design combines both, the benefits of standardization and the benefits of customization. The advantages of modularity result from the reuse of parts and the repetition of operations. Hence, higher quality, lower cost of production, lower delivery time and easier spare parts procurement are expected [10]. Modularity facilitates collaboration and thereby helps to increase flexibility and to minimize economic risk. Since many modules already exist and can be purchased from an external vendor, the best module available (outsourcing) can be selected. Because of mutual independency a module is easier to design, produce, test, maintain and repair than a single more complex system [11]. As a result, a large product variance can be covered with a minimum quantity of modules. 

In addition to commercial software products we also took advantage of custom designed software (MicrobeMS Lasch 2015) for the evaluation of our microbial mass spectra. MicrobeMS is Matlab-based and involves a specifically optimized peak detection routine. One of the key features of peak detection in MicrobeMS is a sigmoid intensity threshold function which was introduced to model the m/z dependence of the analytical sensitivity of MALDI-TOF MS. This threshold function defines intensity thresholds at each m/z value. In the MicrobeMS implementation, an intensity threshold at low m/z values is larger than at high m/z values. Another feature of the MicrobeMS peak detection routine allows to precisely define the number of resulting peaks per spectrum. This particular feature makes peak detection partially independent from the SNR which turned out to be extremely useful for subsequent classification analysis. 

Another advantage of optical fiber and fiber optic cable is the inherent flexibility in design options, allowing for the development of innovative products for specific applications. Since optical fiber is a man-made composite glass structure, it can be custom designed to meet optimal cost/performance targets... 

The high cost, low production, and vulnerability to infection of both biological-based dermal matrices and composite cultured skins have created interest in synthetic polymer technology. These fiscal and supply arguments are not the only impetus for this exploration, as synthetic polymers have the added advantage of customized design to enable properties such as molecular elution or fluid absorption to effect better wound healing. 

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