Keyword: Supply chain management

Stories

Applications: Manufacturing & Prototyping

As the cost of shrink tubing used in the production of catheters has increased, and supply chain issues caused delivery delays, FEP shrink tubing, for example, has become a very expensive...

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Features: Medical

There’s strong demand for smart, new lifesaving and life-enhancing technologies in the global medical device market. To meet this demand, medical device manufacturers...

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Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping

To fast-track time to market and gain a competitive edge, pharmaceutical and medtech development companies are increasingly implementing single-use technologies (SUTs). SUTs also...

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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The material is optically transparent and easily manipulated.
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Features: Medical
See how components suppliers can help therapeutic manufacturers choose the right material for the right application.
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Features: Medical
The company’s key markets include cardiovascular, medical-surgical, neuroscience, and diabetes.
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Features: AR/AI
The FDA will focus on data management and digitizing healthcare.
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Applications: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Infiplast, a plastics company for medical devices, was asked to design, prototype, test, and manufacture a critical component for ventilators.
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Briefs: Regulations/Standards
Deadlines are approaching for compliance.
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Applications: Medical
While AM brings speed, efficiency, and an alternative supply chain, the manufacturing method can also lead to better patient care.
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Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
When the COVID-19 pandemic grounded much of the U.S. aerospace business in 2020, a Massachusetts-based contract manufacturer was forced to improvise.
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Briefs: Medical
A phased approach helps maximize return on investment.
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Features: Medical
Mobility tech also provides help to those with physical or cognitive challenges.
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Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
See how ultrasonic welding technology is being widely used in nonwoven PPE production.
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Features: Design
Senior Director Asmita Khanolkar tell us what she sees for the medical materials industry, in a post-COVID world.
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Features: Electronics & Computers
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
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Features: Design
Having a strong business plan can provide a resilient foundation for successful medical device innovation.
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Technology Leaders: Manufacturing & Prototyping
LFI antigen tests provide results rapidly, at or near the point-of-care.
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Features: Medical

As summer 2020 gives way to fall and we continue grappling with unprecedented challenges, healthcare industry efforts persist to ensure that medical supplies are available when and where they are...

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Briefs: Materials
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.
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Features: Materials
Collaboration and innovation, born of necessity, hold potential to improve the healthcare industry’s PPE product choices and supply reliability.
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Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The digital revolution under way in medtech manufacturing will continue to transform the industry into a more connected, efficient, and agile ecosystem.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping

Additive manufacturing, better known as 3D printing, has been evolving for the last 30 years. Now it’s set to enter the mainstream, and evolving technology including new printers...

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Features: Medical

In today’s world of medical device manufacturing, cost pressures are very real. At the same time, cost savings can be just as real, especially when companies examine their manufacturing...

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Features: Regulations/Standards

Now that medical devices are being labeled and uniquely identified to meet the requirements of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Unique Device Identifier...

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Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping

The medical device industry often looks to independent distributors to address chronic shortages in the availability of electronic components. Direct sourcing of...

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Features: Materials

When it comes to the cardiovascular procedures, small is indeed beautiful. With the need for minimally invasive procedures and increasing moves to deliver therapies to...

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Features: Internet of Things

We live in a fast-changing world that is delivering rapid advances in technology and greater consumer expectations. Along with changing...

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Features: Electronics & Computers

The ideal contract manufacturer is more than a transactional supplier; rather, it is a partner that improves the product and process. Printed circuit boards (PCBs) and...

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Eric Dietsch on the Benefits of Nitinol Wire
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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.