Keyword: Manufacturing systems

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Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Device Development Excels in Rapid Development Centers
Learn how a dedicated team of experts at a rapid development center (RDC) can improve the design process.
Features: Wearables
Inside the OEM: Medtronic
The company’s key markets include cardiovascular, medical-surgical, neuroscience, and diabetes.
Features: Regulations/Standards
Establishing Proper Validation of Extruded Silicone Tubing
Bring your project from the process development phase of manufacturing to a fully validated one.
Features: Packaging & Sterilization
How Top Trends in Cleaning are Impacting Medical Device Design
Cleaning is a critical aspect of medical device design that is often overlooked during initial planning.
Briefs: Materials
Shifting Demand for Multi-Layer Ceramic Capacitors Creates a Critical Supply Shortfall for Medical Electronics Needs
MLCC manufacturers are ramping up manufacturing capacity.
Technology Leaders: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Prototype to Mass Production for Single-Use Instruments
Single-use surgical instruments designed to be disposed or recycled following use offer many benefits over reusable products.
Applications: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Stepping Up Emergency Medical Production with Robotics
Infiplast, a plastics company for medical devices, was asked to design, prototype, test, and manufacture a critical component for ventilators.
Features: Materials
Achieving High Marks for Medical Device Makers: Ultrashort Pulse Lasers
Unique device identifiers, or UDIs, enable better reporting, reviewing, and analyzing of adverse events.
Briefs: Regulations/Standards
Mastering the UKCA Compliance Challenge
Deadlines are approaching for compliance.
Features: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Inside Story: Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group
Rodd Turnquist tells Medical Design Briefs how to select the best pumps for medical devices and accelerating time to market.
Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Coping with the Pandemic: How One Contract Manufacturer Transformed Its Business
When the COVID-19 pandemic grounded much of the U.S. aerospace business in 2020, a Massachusetts-based contract manufacturer was forced to improvise.
Technology Leaders: Materials
Using Dynamic Weld Mode Welder to Tackle Hard-to-Handle Plastic Part Applications
For all of the advancements available in ultrasonic technology, there are certain component, material, or application characteristics that can make assembly quality very difficult to control.
Technology Leaders: Materials
Impact Modified Acrylic Copolymers: Understanding Chemical Resistance
An objective screening matrix to enable medical device manufacturers in identifying the appropriate material for device assemblies.
Technology Leaders: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Careful Selection of Seal Material Essential to Ensure Reliable Operations
Learn how sealing materials have been developed to meet the most stringent needs in life sciences applications.
Technology Leaders: Test & Measurement
Six Tips for Ensuring Precise Compact Distance Measurements
How do know whether the system that you specify is sufficient for your demanding — and potentially lifesaving — application? Read these 6 tips.
Briefs: Medical
Chipset-Specific IPDs Simplify Development of Next-Gen Wireless Medical IoT Applications
Miniaturized, front-end IPDs are specifically designed to seamlessly connect.
Technology Leaders: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Surgical Robotics: The Art of Saving Costs with Cables
Learn about the motion-control options that give robot makers a wider stride than their competitors.
Features: Design
Q&A: The Increasingly Important Role Material Selection Plays in Driving Medical Device Product Development Strategy
Senior Director Asmita Khanolkar tell us what she sees for the medical materials industry, in a post-COVID world.
Features: Regulations/Standards
New Regulations, New Timelines: How Chemistry Changed in Response to ISO 10993-18:2020
Understand what part 18 of the 1099318 standard means for your product’s overall life cycle.
Briefs: Regulations/Standards
Medical Device Usability Requirements: Changes to IEC 62366
The updated standard allows the manufacturer to assess and mitigate risks that are associated with correct use and use errors.
Features: Energy
2020 Product Buyer's Guide
In our 2020 Product Buyer's Guide, you'll find a list of manufacturers in more than a dozen medical-device areas.
R&D: Wearables
Microneedle Patch Delivers Gene Therapy
Genetic material is delivered without producing inflammation or toxicity in the body.
Features: Electronics & Computers
Quality and Reliability in the Assembly and Manufacturing of Medical Electronics PCBs
EMS providers, contract manufacturers (CMs), and printed circuit board (PCB) fabricators are the strongest link in the supply chain critical for building medical electronics equipment, including ventilators
Technology Leaders: Robotics, Automation & Control
Taking Benchtop Fluid Dispensing to a New Level of Process Control
The latest benchtop dispensers provide a high degree of process control, capable of dispensing adhesives, solder pastes, and all other assembly fluids with high consistency.
Features: Tubing & Extrusion
Small Innovations Could Help Robotic Surgery Become Big Business
Smaller parts and devices will likely play bigger roles in the advancement of robotic surgery and telesurgery.
Technology Leaders: Medical
Determining When to Outsource Your Medical Device Testing
Weighing your testing options is imperative to submission success.
Applications: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Reimagining Knee Replacements with Additive Technology and Artificial Intelligence
To produce an additively manufactured prosthesis, REJOINT starts by 3D modelling the patient’s CT scan.
Briefs: Medical
Fast-Tracking Diagnostic Testing for COVID-19 and Other Viruses
Plasma equipment manufacturer PVA TePla America was asked by a manufacturer of real-time PCR diagnostic tests to treat hundreds of thousands of plastic cartridges used to test for COVID-19.
Applications: Design
Case Study: Increasing Ventilator Display Mount Production to Meet COVID-19 Demands
Major ventilator manufacturers began implementing "crash programs" to expand their production lines, attempting to cram multiple years’ worth of output into the span of a few months.

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Ralph Bright on the Power of Power Cords

Understanding power system components and how to connect them correctly is critical to meeting regulatory requirements and designing successful electrical products for worldwide markets. Interpower’s Ralph Bright defines these requirements and explains how to know which cord to select for your application.

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Webinars: Medical

New Liquid Silicone Rubber with Primerless Adhesion to Polycarbonate

On-Demand Webinars: Medical

The Pathway to Successful Device Development

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Rapid Precision Prototyping Program Speeds Medtech Product Development

Rapid prototyping technologies play an important role in supporting new product development (NPD) by companies that are working to bring novel and innovative products to market. But in advanced industries where products often make use of multiple technologies, and where meeting a part’s exacting tolerances is essential, speed without precision is rarely enough. In such advanced manufacturing—including the medical device and surgical robotics industries — the ability to produce high-precision prototypes early in the development cycle can be critical for meeting design expectations and bringing finished products to market efficiently.

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Medical Design Briefs - April 2022