Stories
Briefs: AR/AI
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Features: Robotics, Automation & Control
Peak Analysis and Automation (PAA), Farnborough, UK, has designed a budget-friendly plate handler that works in a tight laboratory footprint, developing an innovative product that could...
Briefs: Medical
On its surface, the work is deceptively simple: Shoot a high-power laser beam onto a piece of metal for a fraction of a second and see what happens. But researchers say the physics of laser...
Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
In the medical industry, metal parts play an integral role in a vast array of diagnostic, testing, medical instruments, and equipment. Although certain complex metal parts can only be machined, thinner...
Features: Robotics, Automation & Control
When small and mid-sized medical device manufacturers envision a robot, many think of either huge industrial robots working in fenced-off areas in large factories or...
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Hold speed or hold velocity? How many machines today have it, and what does it do to the process?
Features: Design
When new assays or diagnostic tests are ready for commercialization, there can be tremendous hurdles to overcome, including significant investment in the infrastructure for automated...
Briefs: Medical
The New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Newark College of Engineering has opened a training-focused, rapid prototyping facility that is central to both the university’s...
Technology Leaders: Connectivity
Visiongain predicts the global medical devices market will reach $398 billion in 2017.1 To win share in this growing market, device companies need to...
Features: Medical
Precision electroforming is an additive process in which two and three-dimensional (3D) microstructures are formed by electrochemically depositing metal...
Technology Leaders: Medical
Determining what tubing to use in a medical device involves considerable research. Designers must investigate ingredients, performance, documentation requirements, sterility, and other qualifying...
Features: Materials
Additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, grew from startup roots in the mid- 1980s to a $2.2 billion business by 2012, according to industry consultants Wohlers...
Features: Tubing & Extrusion
Medical device manufacturers are being challenged by strong market demand for tubing that delivers increased functionality, lower profiles, and lower costs—pushing the limits of material...
Features: Medical
Development of medical devices that are molded from thermoplastics or that have plastic components should begin with collaboration between the OEM’s engineering team and the mold...
Briefs: Medical
Maintaining Sterility Assurance Level in Medical Device Design
A medical device undergoing design and classified as sterile will be confronted with various obstacles, not the least of which is how to determine and maintain its proposed Sterility Assurance Level (SAL) as it approaches its ultimate goal: delivery to market.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Utilizing Machine Vision Engines for Advanced Quality Control and Object Detection
Incorporating machine vision engines into an OEM system with automated handling provides a wide range of benefits to the manufacturer. Machine vision engines are self-contained vision systems that include the optics, lighting, image sensor, electronics, and...
Applications: Medical
Borrowing a page from wireless phone communications, hearing aids have become firmly entrenched in the digital realm during the past decade. At GN ReSound, the manufacturing process for...
Top Stories
INSIDER: Medical

New Material Solves Pressure Problem for Wearables
Features: Design

Consider Phase Zero: The Importance of DFX to Meet Deadlines, Deliverables
INSIDER: Medical

Polymer-Based Prefillable Syringes Drive Down Costs
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition

Stretchable, Wearable Patch for Cardiac Ultrasound
INSIDER: Medical

Sensor Detects Early Alzheimer's Disease
INSIDER: Medical

Ask the Expert
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.
Webcasts
Webinars: Manufacturing & Prototyping

How to Maximize the Benefits of Medical Device Onshoring
Webinars: Sensors/Data Acquisition

Developing the Ultimate Medical Sensor Technology
Webinars: Power

Precision Pulsed High Voltage: Electroporation Enabling Medical and Life...
On-Demand Webinars: Medical

Product Development Lifecycle Management: Optimizing Quality, Cost, and Speed...
On-Demand Webinars: Medical

Medical Device Biofilms: Slimy, Sticky, Stubborn, and Serious
On-Demand Webinars: Medical

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Making Medical Devices Smarter
Inside Story
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.
Trending Stories
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition

Sensor Detects Early Alzheimer's Disease
Applications: Medical

Embedded System Design and Development for ARM-Based Laboratory Analyzers