Emmet McMahan

Emmet Kyle McMahan has been a full-time professional writer for over 10 years and was a software engineer for 15 years before that. He has written more than 20,000 articles on a variety of topics, including plastics engineering.

Articles by Emmet McMahan

• 4 causes of failure for medical devices

  Tuesday, January 16, 2018

  ​Materials are one of the most common causes of failure in medical devices, especially for plastic. Records show that material failure is responsible for 30 to 40 percent of all FDA recalls on medical devices.