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FAULHABER MICROMO brings together the highest quality motion technologies and value-added services, together with global engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing, to deliver top quality micro motion solutions. With 34 years’ experience, John Chandler injects a key engineering perspective into all new projects and enjoys working closely with OEM customers to bring exciting new technologies to market.

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White Papers: Medical
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Your Guide to Sourcing Precision Metals for Bellows Manufacturing
From medical devices to automotive, aerospace, and cryogenic systems, bellows demand material that performs under pressure. Ulbrich supplies precision rolled strip and foil...

INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Critical Manufacturing will demonstrate how manufacturers can move beyond digital transformation concepts and apply them in real...
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INSIDER: Medical
Indium Corporation is featuring its high-reliability AuLTRA® MediPro gold solder solutions at MD&M West. The MediPro is a family of...
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INSIDER: Medical
Everyone’s talking about AI. Few are actually producing more units because of it. In her keynote, Guidewheel CEO Lauren Dunford shows how leading manufacturers are...
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Products: Materials
See the product of the month: SABIC's LNP™ and EXTEM™ thermoplastic resin grades engineered for compact medical components requiring high thermal and electrical performance.
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Features: Design
While a breakthrough may someday arrive, betting everything on a single answer overlooks what is already within reach. The real opportunity lies at the intersection of biology, technology, artificial intelligence, and drugs working synergistically together, not as isolated components. Read on to learn more.
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Listen to the newest medical podcasts, including one on ensuring safety when materials or processes change; one on how advanced manufacturing using techniques such as automation and AI is streamlining production processes in the medical device industry; one on exploring how 3D printing is transforming the design and production of medical devices; and more.
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Global Innovations: Design
A retina-mimicking eye phantom replicates the structural layers and micro-vascular network of the human retina. The innovation, developed by the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, provides a new reference for objectively evaluating and calibrating ophthalmic imaging devices, paving the way for more accurate and reliable diagnosis of retinal diseases. Read on to learn more.
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Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
See where the product focus is this month: Sensors.
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Products: Electronics & Computers
See the new products and services, including an AI-driven platform for preparing global medtech regulatory submissions from Pure Global; a collaborative commercial strategy platform for biopharma launches from Nmblr; safety syringes and companion reusable autoinjectors from Owen Mumford; and more.
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Briefs: Materials
Wearable electronics could be more wearable, according to a research team at Penn State. The researchers developed a scalable, versatile approach to designing and fabricating wireless, Internet-enabled electronic systems that can better adapt to 3D surfaces. Read on to learn more.
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Briefs: Wearables
The Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology has launched a new collaborative research project — Wearable Imaging for Transforming Elderly Care (WITEC). Read on to learn more about it.
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Briefs: Medical
There’s a new tool in the hands of surgeons making waves through the world of hip arthroscopy. Jacob Segil, a research professor at CU Boulder, collaborated with Dr. Omer Mei Dan from the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine to create a redesigned surgical instrument called the CAP-LIFT cannula. Read on to learn more.
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From the Editor: Medical
"Few issues test the operational discipline of medtech companies quite like trade policy volatility. Tariffs are not new to this industry, but the pace and scale of recent changes have elevated them from a background risk to a strategic concern." Read on to learn Editor and Director of Medical Content Sherrie Trigg's opinion on the matter.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This bioinspired design marks a significant step toward development of eco-friendly and highly sensitive wearable sensors, with broad potential in sports analytics and biomedical monitoring. Read on to learn more.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The OASYS project aims to develop compact, energy-efficient, and highly integrated optoelectronic sensor components for applications in the life sciences and smart manufacturing. The project concentrates on two main research areas: MEMS-based hyper-spectral imaging for industrial and agricultural use, and high-resolution optical techniques for the life sciences, with a particular focus on imaging in scattering media.
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Briefs: Design
Continuous bioprocessing places unprecedented demands on peristaltic pump tubing. Long cycle times, regulatory expectations, and sensitivity to flow variability mean that tubing can no longer be treated as a short-term consumable. Read on to learn more.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Additive manufacturing (AM) has been adopted in the medical industry due to advantages over conventional subtractive machining. Read on to learn more.
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Briefs: Materials
Ensuring accuracy by force measurement and material testing is a necessary requirement in most every industry, especially orthopedic and medical parts manufacturing where the highest quality control is crucial. Read on to learn more.
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Briefs: Tubing & Extrusion
Two promising options are polyetherimide resins and PEI-siloxane copolymers. These specialty thermoplastic materials not only are formulated without fluorine but also deliver desirable properties such as high heat and chemical resistance and low friction. Read on to learn more about them.
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R&D: Medical
Researchers have developed a fully customizable finger brace that can, with the push or flex of a finger, easily switch from stiff to flexible. Along with its versatility, the brace can be 3D...
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R&D: Medical
Scientists used a “smart” shirt equipped with an electrocardiogram to track participants’ heart-rate recovery after exercise and developed a tool for analyzing the data to predict...
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R&D: Materials
Stretchable waveguides maintain efficient, stable signal transmission of surface plasmon polaritons even when bent, twisted, or stretched. These plasmonic waveguides could make...
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R&D: RF & Microwave Electronics
A spintronic THz emitter with a microscale stripe pattern enables the modulation of chirality during THz wave generation. Unlike traditional THz sources that rely on external optical...
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R&D: Medical
Researchers have demonstrated that seizures can be tracked in the home environment, giving clinicians access to data that could have a dramatic impact on the way in which epilepsy is treated in...
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R&D: Medical
Engineers have developed a technique for inkjet printing arrays of special nanoparticles that enables the mass production of long-lasting wearable sweat sensors. These sensors could be...
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Features: Design
With multiple co-located expos, a dense education schedule, and a show floor spanning the entire medical device lifecycle, success at MD&M West depends less on seeing everything than on seeing the right things. Read on for a guide that takes a tactical view of the event — highlighting role-based education paths, newly emphasized features, and practical strategies for navigating the show efficiently.
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Features: Medical
Product features alone no longer command premium prices or defend against commoditization. The path to differentiation and margin protection now runs through service quality and customer relationships. Read on to learn more.
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Inside Story

Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
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Eurofins Medical Device Testing (MDT) provides a full scope of testing services. In this interview, Eurofins’ experts, Sunny Modi, PhD, Director of Package Testing; and Elizabeth Sydnor, Director of Microbiology; answer common questions on medical device packaging and sterilization.

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