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Designing medical device components for silicone requires up-front design considerations due to silicone’s unique properties. Maximizing the benefits of the LIM (liquid injection molding) process, can improve component function, maximize assembly efficiencies, and increase speed-to-market. Download the top 10 tips list to help guide you through the process of Silicone parts for medical components.
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Did you know that manufacturers will soon bear responsibility for conducting and documenting risk management assessments in compliance with applicable standards? In this free white paper, Patrick Kinyanjui of Fischer Connectors will help you understand the implications of these new regulations before they take effect so you can adjust your business plans and maintain your competitive edge.
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The challenges of many medical device manufacturing applications are pushing the need for more sophisticated metals-joining technologies. In response to these demands, laser welding has become an important enabling technology, as single-use medical devices become smaller and smaller and as demand grows and reliability requirements tighten for implantable cardiac health management device. The use of laser welding is also making practical a wider range of applications as a newly available laser light wavelength opens the door to reliable laser welding of copper and gold alloys.
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Plastic tubing selection can be complicated and challenging, especially when it involves medical devices. You need to remember to choose the right hardness or softness, check for incompatible ingredients, and be well aware of the degree of quality needed. It’s a lot to know. Part 2 of the Tubing & Hose Buying Tips white paper includes tips on ten more things you may need to investigate during the tubing selection process. The tips within can help avoid the downtime, added costs, and aggravation involved when the wrong tubing is ordered.
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Determining what plastic tubing is best for an application can be a challenge. This white paper includes topics such as ingredients, temperatures, pressure and vacuum requirements, and flexibility to assist designers, engineers, and buyers with tubing and hose selection. It serves as a handy reminder of performance properties to research when specifying plastic and rubber tubing and reinforced hose for medical devices and other applications. The paper aims to help avoid the downtime, costs, and frustration involved when the wrong tubing or hose is ordered.
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Linux is a popular choice for a wide range of medical devices. Yet due to the critical nature of these devices, manufacturers must take additional precautions.
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Diaphragm-type vacuum pumps and compressors are well suited to a variety of medical device applications due to their ability to operate efficiently over a broad range of flows and pressures, and keep the fluid path completely sealed. A downside is flow pulsation – a limitation characteristic of most reciprocating pumps – which can create challenges for systems integrators in terms of flow measurement and control. This article will focus on some simple techniques for reliable and repeatable measurement of flow and pressure, particularly where the pumped media is air or an otherwise compressible gas.
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Learn how to apply quality systems principles to supply chain management processes to help establish best practices for (1) selecting and qualifying suppliers, (2) segmenting them into categories based on potential risk and (3) monitoring them to drive continuous improvement.
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By getting support from the cleaner manufacturer, time and money can be saved in establishing either cleaning validation or cleaning verification processes. This is critical as cleaning validation or cleaning verification is a necessary regulatory compliance step in medical device manufacturing and reprocessing. This white paper outlines the basics of cleaning validation and the role that the cleaner manufacturer can play in simplifying and speeding up the cleaning validation as well as supporting the maintenance of the validated or verified state.
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Selecting the best plastic for a medical device can be a complex decision unless you know how to talk to your material supplier to be assured that both parties have confidence in their recommendations. This paper presents an overview of the material selection process from the viewpoint of a compounder.
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