About Polaris Med Tech

Every project personally led by a senior engineer

Michael Capes, Founder of Polaris Med Tech

Technical leadership

Built cleanrooms. Prototyped pacemakers. Running a national device manufacturing facility.

One technical lead throughout. No handoffs.

Michael leads engineering at MAISI, King's College London. A decade in medical device development, including Smith & Nephew manufacturing operations. Built a cleanroom from an empty room and took devices in cardiac, dental oncology, and infection control from concept to functional prototype.

Michael Capes | Engineering Director of Medical Technology Laboratory | Process Engineer

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How we work

How we approach every project

Built for compliance, not retrofitted

Design control and documentation built in from day one, so the technical file is ready when your regulatory partner needs it.

Designed for manufacture, not just demonstration

If it can't be built at scale, it isn't solved.

No black-box engineering

You see every decision, every trade-off, every risk.

ISO 13485 quality managementDesign for manufactureRisk management (ISO 14971)Lean Six Sigma methodology

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