Expert Medical User Interface Assemblies & Labeling

At JN White, we understand the unique demands of the medical industry. From small startups to large manufacturers, our comprehensive range of solutions—including flexible heaters, user interface assemblies, graphic overlays, and labels—ensures your medical devices meet both performance and regulatory standards. We are committed to helping you deliver safe, reliable, and effective solutions that make a difference in patient care.

To improve usability, we’ve found it preferable to stick with standard or previously approved designs. By presenting controls that medical personnel are already familiar with, we can help them avoid potentially dangerous operational mistakes. For new products and new user interface designs, we typically develop fully functioning prototypes for usability testing, allowing engineers to assess the true impact of the control units they are proposing.

Medical devices are complex, but the user experience should be seamless. Whether it’s a touch panel for a diagnostic machine, a control interface for a therapeutic device, or a simple yet effective display for monitoring systems, we engineer medical user interfaces with a focus on ease of use, accuracy, and durability. Our medical UI assemblies include:

• Touchscreens and Keypads: Custom-designed to meet specific needs while providing responsive interaction for healthcare professionals.

• Graphic Overlays: Clear, intuitive, and durable overlays that simplify device operation, ensuring users can access critical functions quickly and accurately.

• User-Centered Design: We focus on creating user interfaces that enhance workflow and minimize user error in high-pressure medical environments.

Medical devices require user interfaces that are not only functional but also intuitive. We prioritize designing interfaces that simplify complex tasks and ensure users—whether they’re healthcare providers or patients—can interact with the device easily and efficiently.

• Ergonomic Layouts: Controls and displays are strategically placed to provide intuitive navigation and ease of use, reducing the risk of mistakes in high-pressure environments.

• Accessibility Features: We design with accessibility in mind, creating interfaces that are usable by people of all skill levels and abilities, making medical devices more inclusive and user-friendly.

Medical device labels must hold up, and so we use superior substrates and processes to make sure they do just that. We’re a leading label and component manufacturer with a Quality System that is certified as being in conformity with ISO 9001:2015 by Intertek, so you can rest assured our products are worthy of yours. We also have extensive knowledge and experience producing FDA-compliant Unique Device Identification (UDI) labels.

Starting in 2013, the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA), the European Commission (CE), and other regulating bodies established new labeling requirements for medical devices. These are the Unique Device Identification, or UDI, requirements.

The goal is to increase patient safety, increase supply chain efficiencies, and improve the traceability of medical devices. These regulations were phased in over time, with all three levels of medical devices – Class III, Class II, and Class I – now in place.

As with many government regulations, the onus is on manufacturers of medical devices to ensure compliance. As one customer told us, “we don’t want to be in the label compliance business, but now we have to be – so help us make it as streamlined and painless as possible.”

At JN White®, we work closely with our customers’ engineers to produce and test combinations of digitally printed labels using sub-surface printing, top surface printing, clear varnishes, clear overlaminates, and other techniques. We then perform the testing necessary to determine which material and design combination grades out the best versus the product requirements. All of this is documented appropriately so that you can go into the accredited agency’s portal and register these parts more quickly and easily since all the information is organized for you.

Working with experts is imperative in this new world of UDI labeling. If you are just starting, we can help you learn more about it. Understand the codes, make sense of the regulations, and do it right.

• Precision Engineering: Whether you’re designing user interface assemblies, flexible heaters, or graphic overlays, we collaborate with you to deliver custom solutions that meet your exact specifications and regulatory requirements, ensuring the highest level of performance.

• Compliance and Safety: Our medical products are rigorously tested and designed to meet the highest industry standards, including ISO and UL certifications. We ensure every component is built for safety and compliance, helping you navigate the complexities of FDA approval and regulatory documentation.

• Durability and Reliability: From flexible heaters built to withstand the demands of medical environments to durable labels that enhance user experience, our solutions are designed for longevity and consistent performance in critical applications.

• Collaborative Innovation: We work alongside you every step of the way to develop products that improve patient care, streamline device functionality, and push the boundaries of medical device technology.