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Supplements: Regulations/Standards
Supplements: IoMT
From the Editor: Wearables
Supplements: Packaging & Sterilization
Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
News: Robotics, Automation & Control
Many medical devices — from robotic surgery to autonomous delivery robots in hospitals, to dialysis equipment — use motion control products to operate. Allied Motion’s long and successful experience as a...
Features: Communications
Technology has always played a central role in healthcare. From microscopes to medical imaging, and from pacemakers to prosthetics, technological breakthroughs throughout history have improved diagnosis,...
Features: Medical
In the injectable drug-delivery industry, expectations for improved patient experiences with administration and at-home delivery of therapeutic regimens are evolving. Products that combine the...
News: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Medbio, Grand Rapids, MI, has opened a second manufacturing facility. The company is an outsource manufacturer offering design and engineering, manufacturing, assembly, and packaging solutions for the...
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Hold speed or hold velocity? How many machines today have it, and what does it do to the process?
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...
News: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Frequently used as a design validation and prototyping tool in its early days, the 3D printer now supports a much wider range of applications, from shape-conforming electronics to the creation of...
NASA Spinoff: Medical
We often imagine that inventions are born whole: Thomas Edison creates the incandescent light bulb and lights up Christie Street in Menlo Park on New Year’s Eve,...
INSIDER: Materials
Plastics Machinery Shipments Rise 13.5%
According to a recent report by the SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Associations’ Committee on Equipment Statistics, for the second straight quarter, North American shipments of plastics machinery registered a strong year-over-year increase in the first quarter of 2016. Shipments of primary plastics...
INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Martin Thuo, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Iowa State University, and his research group are using materials expertise to study soft matter,...
Briefs: Software
When bringing new medical equipment or portable mobile medical devices to market, manufacturers turn to packaging engineers to develop custom case solutions that can enhance and...
Features: Robotics, Automation & Control
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.
Mission Accomplished: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Have you heard of Robohand? No, it’s not the next sci-fi blockbuster. It’s a story of compassion, technology, and a collaboration from 10,000 miles apart between Richard...
Applications: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Instrumentation Laboratory, Bedford, MA, is a worldwide manufacturer of in vitro diagnostic instruments, related reagents, and controls for use in hospitals and independent clinical...
Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Nordson EFD, East Providence, RI, has more than tripled the speed of its PICO™ series of piezoelectric jet dispensing systems— from 150Hz (cycles per second) up to an industry-leading...
Features: Electronics & Computers
Electrical equipment used in medical technology must not place patients or medical staff in danger. This, in turn, requires that designing safe equipment starts at the...
News: Medical
Reshoring Initiative Celebrates First Anniversary
The Reshoring Initiative, whose ongoing mission is to broadcast the benefits of reshoring or bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States, celebrated its first year of incorporation, as well as the achievement of significant national attention and support of its efforts. The number of...
Top Stories
INSIDER: Medical

Self-Powered Ingestible Sensor Opens New Avenues for Gut Research
Briefs: Medical

Designing Feature-Rich Wearable Health and Fitness Devices
Briefs: Tubing & Extrusion

Extrusion Process Enables Synthetic Material Growth
Features: Medical

Enabling a Diabetic to Run the World Marathon Challenge
INSIDER: Medical

COVID-19 Smart Patch Vaccine Measures Effectiveness
INSIDER: Medical

Ask the Expert
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.
Webcasts
On-Demand Webinars: Medical

Developing the Ultimate Medical Sensor Technology
Webinars: Medical

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

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

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

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Making Medical Devices Smarter
On-Demand Webinars: Wearables

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

Self-Powered Ingestible Sensor Opens New Avenues for Gut Research
Features: Regulations/Standards

Implementing IEC 62304 for Safe and Effective Medical Device Software — PART 1
Features: Medical

Implementing IEC 62304 for Safe and Effective Medical Device Software, PART 2
Technology Leaders: Medical

Plasticizer-Induced Stress Cracking of Rigid PVC and Polycarbonate
Technology Leaders: Design

Polyolefin Heat Shrink Tubing for Tight-Tolerance Medical Applications:...