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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Flexible hones enable machining of complex parts with cross-drilled holes.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Removing organic contaminants and reducing bacterial and viral loads in medical device manufacturing.
Features: Materials
A plasma etching process called electron enhanced material processing (EEMP) has been shown to improve performance of metal and alloys.
Features: Materials
Cold plasma has been used for decades to treat surfaces in a variety of industries.
R&D: Medical
Kanfit3D has entered into a joint research partnership with the University of Brescia (Italy). The project will develop unique implantable structures, using additive layer manufacturing (ALM)...
Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Modern science has allowed surgeons to fix the human body amazingly fast yet leave behind only small traces where repairs were performed. One of the more commonly used methods to...
Features: Medical
Device manufacturers count on their supply chain partners for answers. What can be adjusted, how can we add value, and what methods can be used to streamline...
Applications: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Most medical diagnostic and testing equipment involves some type of enclosure, cart, or cabinet that serves as a user workstation or protects sensitive...
Applications: Medical
Computed tomography (CAT or CT) imaging is an incredible tool doctors use to help detect and diagnose patients noninvasively. Using specialized x-ray technology, the device has the...
Briefs: Materials
By using an electrochemical etching process on a common stainless-steel alloy, researchers have created a nanotextured surface that kills bacteria while not harming...
Technology Leaders: Medical
For many medical device manufacturers, the application of proprietary coatings and surface treatments can play a critical role in differentiating their products as they...
Features: Medical
Diabetes is not only one of the most common chronic diseases, it is also complex and difficult to treat. Insulin is often administered between meals to keep...
Features: Medical
They are vitally important, make therapy possible, and they have become an integral part in hospitals or home-care settings: medication and feeding pumps supply patients with essential...
Features: Medical
In an increasingly volatile and complex market environment, adaptability becomes essential to success and business growth for today’s medical extruder. Basic to...
Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The manufacturing of medical components must meet standards of accuracy, reliability, quality, and traceability that equal and...
Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Finding the right custom extrusion and plastics company to manufacture and provide a key custom component to your end-product needs can often seem a daunting task. With an abundance of responses...
Technology Leaders: Photonics/Optics
New materials and technological advances continue to proliferate the medtech industry at a rapid rate, and suppliers strive to offer innovative solutions to meet the...
Features: Medical
Inside Story: Mike Boivin, Manufacturing Manager - New England Catheter
To get a better idea of the importance of New England Catheter’s capabilities for medical device customers, Medical Design Briefs spoke with Mike Boivin, manufacturing manager at New England Catheter.
Briefs: Materials
To control product development costs without sacrificing quality, medical device OEMs are giving new life to their product development process by turning to aluminum extrusions instead...
Briefs: Medical
In the future, thin-film heating will allow plastic parts to be produced with greatly improved surface quality. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM, Freiburg,...
Applications: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Producing basic features by stamping, and then incorporating more critical features by computer numerical control (CNC) machining can result in a much lower cost part than a...
Features: Medical
Design for Manufacturability (DFM) is a well-established practice, essential in realizing the transformation of new product concepts into mass-produced medical devices. And yet, all too often issues...
Applications: Medical
PVC has long been the material of choice for tubing. Increasingly, however, issues such as those focusing on the phthalate plasticizers used to make PVC flexible are causing some tubing...
Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Advancements in medical technology and material science have created new engineering challenges for medical devices used in minimally invasive interventional procedures....
Mission Accomplished: Medical
Three days a week, Dr. Grady Rylander treats patients at the Eye Institute of Austin, a private practice he joined 34 years ago after graduating from The University of...
Applications: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A device manufacturer was trying to design a complicated dose delivery monitoring system for an inhaler. The monitoring system is meant to rectify a significant problem:...
Features: Materials
Many of today’s single-use medical devices would not be commercially viable without a lubricant coating. Dry lubricants using PTFE particles provide design engineers with a...
Briefs: Medical
Fabrication and Modification of Nanoporous Silicon Particles
Silicon-based nanoporous particles as biodegradable drug carriers are advantageous in permeation, controlled release, and targeting. The use of biodegradable nanoporous silicon and silicon dioxide, with proper surface treatments, allows sustained drug release within the target site over a...
Top Stories
Blog: Design
De-Risking Medical Device Development with VA Technology Transfer
Podcasts: Design
The Hidden Nervous System of Surgical Robotics: Power, Data & Sensing...
INSIDER: Materials
Geometric Twist Boosts Power of Robotic Textiles
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Sensor Sniffs Out Pneumonia on Patient’s Breath
Podcasts: Medical
Training the Future of AI-Powered Surgery
Briefs: Materials
Liquid Metal Composite Material Enables Recyclable, Flexible, and...
Ask the Expert
Dan Sanchez on How to Improve Extruded Components
Improving extruded components requires careful attention to a number of factors, including dimensional tolerance, material selection, and processing. Trelleborg’s Dan Sanchez provides detailed insights into each of these considerations to help you advance your device innovations while reducing costs and speeding time to market.
Webcasts
Podcasts: Robotics, Automation & Control
Training the Future of AI-Powered Surgery
Podcasts: Robotics, Automation & Control
Making Human-Centered Robotics Work in the Real World
Podcasts: Robotics, Automation & Control
The Hidden Nervous System of Surgical Robotics: Power, Data & Sensing Behind...
Podcasts: Medical
Surgical & Assistive Robotics: Redefining Human Capability
Podcasts: Medical
How Wearables Are Enhancing Smart Drug Delivery
Podcasts: Design
Inside Story
Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
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.
