As part of QTS’ ongoing efforts to give back to our community, we organized and sponosored a Dresser Build event at BRIDGING in late 2016. BRIDGING is a nonprofit organization serving the greater Twin Cities area, and is the largest furniture bank in the U.S. Through the effective reuse of donated items, BRIDGING improves lives…

Giving back to our local and global community is part of the culture at QTS. Throughout the year we organize and encourage QTS employees to participate in several programs to give a helping hand to those in need. At the kick-off of the holiday season, our staff coordinated a toy/gift drive for Operation Christmas Child….

2016 is the second year that staff at QTS staff members created and donated items to a local charity, Bundles of Love. Bundles of Love is a volunteer-driven, nonprofit organization that partners with community service agencies to assist Minnesota families in need by providing handmade baby clothing, bedding and basic care items for their newborns….

In light of the Zika virus epidemic, China has begun to use sulfuryl fluoride to fumigate shipments from countries that have been identified to be impacted by the Zika virus. This affects shipments of any item to China, but is of particular importance for QTS customers that ship medical devices, such as instruments, implants, etc….

Brian Nissen and Sopheak Srun of QTS Medical Device Outsourcing have co-authored a presentation on risk-based alternate SALs that will be presented on November 10 at the International Meeting on Radiation Processing (IMRP) conference in Vancouver, Canada. Brian and Sopheak have been actively involved in the AAMI Sterilization Standards Committee Working Group 15 (Assurance of…

There was some fierce competition this year in the QTS Annual Pumpkin Decorating Contest! Our QPODs and departments throughout the building came up with some very entertaining and delicious decorations. The contest was structured a bit different this year, with all staff able to place their vote in three different categories; Silliest, Scariest, and Most…

For several years, QTS has partnered with AWT to host an annual networking happy hour event in conjunction with the MD&M Minneapolis conference. The 2016 “Beer, Bites & Banter” event was a hit with our Medical Device Industry friends. Good times and delicious drinks were enjoyed by all, and we look forward to hosting this…

This summer QTS staff and leadership rallied to support Simon Says Give’s “High Five for Supplies Drive” by collecting and donating school supplies. Donation boxes were stationed in our lunchrooms and they were plumb full of folders, notebooks, markers and various supplies to fill backpacks for those in need. Simon Says Give is a kid-founded and…

QTS Principal Project Engineer, Brian Nissen, shares with us how damage to Linear (1D) and Datamatrix (2D) barcodes can impact scannability and grading in the medical device supply chain.

Since the implementation of the FDA Unique Device Identification (UDI) regulation, medical device manufacturers have been presented with the challenge of how to present the UDI symbols on their packaging. The size and shape of device packaging significantly impacts the available space for a symbol, and therefore the size of the symbol must be adjusted…