Stories
Features: Design
Digital design tools — computer modeling and realistic simulation — have emerged as key contributors to success in medical device product design and manufacturing, and increasingly in the...
Technology Leaders: Tubing & Extrusion
Applying fluid dynamic principles to extrusion tooling design benefits any medical device company involved with continuous extrusion. Benefits include improved product tolerances, reduced...
Features: Tubing & Extrusion
In an increasingly volatile and complex market environment, adaptability becomes essential to success and business growth for today’s medical extruder. Basic to...
Applications: Medical
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than one million infants and young children die every year from vaccine-preventable diseases such as pneumococcal...
Briefs: Medical
A vascular surgeon, Patrick Kelly, MD, of Sanford Health in Sioux Falls, SD, had designed a stent graft and knew that his patients with thoracoabdominal aneurysms were doing better with it, but...
Features: Electronics & Computers
Electronic devices used in the medical industry have thermal management needs similar to those in other fields. Their electronics must stay cool enough to run continuously and correctly...
Applications: Medical
The Ada-based SPARK programming language and toolset offer strong guarantees about the behavior of software systems. This powerful core underpins Echo, a complete approach to...
Briefs: Medical
Method and Apparatus for Automated Isolation of Nucleic Acids from Small Cell Samples
RNA isolation is a ubiquitous need, driven by current emphasis on microarrays and miniaturization. With commercial systems requiring 100,000 to 1,000,000 cells for successful isolation, there is a growing need for a small-footprint, easy-to-use device that can...
Features: Materials
The product development process in the medical device field poses a demanding design environment for engineers and project managers. The design process often requires...
Applications: Medical
Durability is a key measurement of prosthetic heart valve function. Assessment of fatigue life requires accurate estimates of the stresses induced during the cardiac cycle. Finite...
Applications: Software
On Sept. 21, 1960, Dr. Albert Starr successfully implanted the world’s first “ball-in-cage” prosthetic heart valve into a patient’s mitral valve, a...
Applications: Imaging
Near-patient in vitro diagnostic (IVD) tests depend on medical devices to perform diagnoses, generally in controlled environments and using non-invasive techniques...
Applications: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Sometimes an engineering problem can defy logic: My encounter with this phenomenon was a flow problem within the control valve of a medical respirator that showed...
Mission Accomplished: Medical
An estimated one million people...
Applications: Medical
Once considered a medical miracle, today’s coronary stent installations are now viewed as low-risk and commonplace procedures. In the U.S. alone, more than one million patients with heart...
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Briefs: Wearables

Designing Feature-Rich Wearable Health and Fitness Devices
INSIDER: Medical

Self-Powered Ingestible Sensor Opens New Avenues for Gut Research
Briefs: Tubing & Extrusion

Extrusion Process Enables Synthetic Material Growth
Features: Medical

Enabling a Diabetic to Run the World Marathon Challenge
Features: Motion Control

Enhancing Surgical Outcomes with Performance-Guided Surgery
Supplements: Connectivity

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Eric Dietsch on the Benefits of Nitinol Wire

In collaboration with the Fort Wayne Metals Engineering team, Eric Dietsch focuses on supporting customers with material recommendations, product development, and education. Eric is available to help you and your company with any Nitinol-related questions or needs that you may have.
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Webinars: Sensors/Data Acquisition

Developing the Ultimate Medical Sensor Technology
On-Demand Webinars: Medical

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

Product Development Lifecycle Management: Optimizing Quality, Cost, and Speed...
Webinars: Materials

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

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Making Medical Devices Smarter
On-Demand Webinars: Sensors/Data Acquisition

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.
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Technology Leaders: Regulations/Standards

First, Do No Harm: Changing Strategies to Prove Your Medical Device Is Safe