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WASHINGTON—The U.S. Food & Drug Administration, Health Canada and the United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency have jointly identified 10 guiding principles that can help manufacturers build safe, effective and high-quality medical devices that enable artificial intelligence and machine learning.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN—A change implemented on one manufacturing line at Medtronic has resulted in damaged pouches on IN.PACT Admiral and IN.PACT AV balloon catheters, forcing the company to recall some of the products. Damaged pouches can lessen catheter sterility.

TROY, MI—Members of Project DIAMOnD, a Michigan-based 3D printing network of 300 small- and medium-sized manufacturers, is providing tourniquet clips to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry to aid the country's wounded soldiers in their war against Russia.

‘Nothing lasts forever’ is an expression, and a reality, that manufacturers of all sizes know all too well. When a product stops working—for whatever reason—the end-user must either repair it or replace it.

BENGALURU, India—Wipro GE Healthcare has announced that its upcoming greenfield assembly plant here will be managed entirely by women.