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Features: Connectivity
In our 2020 Product Buyer's Guide, you'll find a list of manufacturers in more than a dozen medical-device areas.
Products: Electronics & Computers
Simulation Software
Volume Graphics, Charlotte, NC, has added and augmented important functionalities to its software that help designers and manufacturers capture and interrogate product data to improve final...
Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Shielding materials, static control, 3D printing software, and more.
Products: Tubing & Extrusion
Learn about new geometric transition extrusions and catheter components.
Products: Tubing & Extrusion
Cavity pumps, transfer tubing, proportional valve, and more.
Technology Leaders: Medical
The move toward miniaturization, from a medical tubing perspective, is picking up pace.
Products: Medical
Silicone Tube Measurement
Freudenberg Medical, Kaiserslautern, Germany, has developed a new technology to continuously measure the inner geometry of silicone tubes. The Helix iMC™, which stands for inner measurement and...
News: Medical
Tessy Plastics Corp., which specializes in injection molding and custom automated assembly solutions, has expanded the warehouse space in one of its manufacturing facilities in upstate New York....
Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
External PSUs
XP Power, Tokyo, Japan, has released two series of external power supplies that are intended for modern medical applications, including safety approvals for home-based healthcare, and IT applications...
Features: Tubing & Extrusion
The long-term structural integrity of the substrate is critical for the development of medical devices approved for demanding cardiovascular applications such as transcatheter...
Features: Tubing & Extrusion
In an effort to design smaller, more intricate and complicated medical devices without running afoul of increasingly stringent national and international regulations, many designers are looking...
Products: Medical
Composite Medical Tubing
Polygon, Walkerton, IN, has released a high-performance composite tubing for surgical applications. PolyMed® is ideal for use in placement on electrosurgical devices surgical ablation tools,...
INSIDER: Tubing & Extrusion
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a new method for producing malleable microstructures, including vascular stents that are 40 times smaller than previously possible.
Products: Tubing & Extrusion
Hypodermic Needle Manufacturing
Moldworx, Gilbert, AZ, has automated the production of hypodermic needles using the overmolding process to reduce costs and improve productivity. The company has expertise in the design...
News: Tubing & Extrusion
Kaysun Corporation, Manitowoc, WI, has received its MedAccred Plastics accreditation. Kaysun is one of only a few injection molders in the United States that holds this certification. MedAccred, an...
Products: Medical
Catheter Tie Layer
Zeus, Orangeburg, SC, offers a thin thermoplastic coating that is placed over a PTFE liner during catheter construction. The Zeus Tie Layer creates a melt bondable surface that improves...
Products: Materials
Medical Adhesives
Epoxy Technology, Billerica, MA, has completed ISO 10993 testing of its previously Class VI adhesives, as well as the addition of 12 new medical-device-grade adhesives, extending its MED line of...
Technology Leaders: Imaging
As often happens in the medical industry, innovative ideas hatched in university research settings spawn innovative companies, which create innovative products. A case...
Technology Leaders: Medical
It can be challenging to make sure you've covered all the bases during the tubing and hose selection process for medical instrumentation. For each application, there are many elements to consider, including...
Technology Leaders: Medical
With more insight about the characteristics of this versatile silicone material, medical device manufacturers can better understand potential applications and...
Features: Materials
Device functionality is usually the starting point when designing devices. Another element that needs to be considered when designing devices and their subsequent components is...
Features: Medical
Healthcare-related tubing is used for fluid management and drainage as well as with anesthesiology and respiratory equipment, IVs, catheters, peristaltic pumps, and biopharmaceutical...
Briefs: Tubing & Extrusion
Traditional handheld surgical tools continue to provide benefits where surgeons need instruments to be more rigid and have strong holding power to withstand complex procedures. The majority...
Briefs: Tubing & Extrusion
Hold speed or hold velocity? How many machines today have it, and what does it do to the process?
Features: Medical
Plastics are incredibly versatile. There are thousands of types available to satisfy a myriad of medical applications. Yet, certain plastics present special challenges during the injection...
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: 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...
News: Medical
Cadence Expands, Adds New PEEK Machining, Molding Capabilities
Cadence, Stauton, VA, recently completed the expansion of its machining capabilities to include polyetheretherketone (PEEK) machining and molding capabilities as the use of PEEK components continues to rise in implantable medical devices.
Features: Tubing & Extrusion
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...
Top Stories
INSIDER: Medical
Hydrogels: The Future of Bone Implants
INSIDER: Medical
Adaptable Drug-Delivery Platform Accelerates Next-Gen Medicine
Briefs: Wearables
Sweat-Powered Sticker Turns Drinking Cup Into a Health Sensor
Features: Medical
Inside the OEM: Intuitive’s Next Chapter — Scaling Robotics, Data, and...
Briefs: AR/AI
AI-Generated Sensors Open New Paths for Early Cancer Detection
Briefs: Medical
The Strategic Advantage of Automation in Medical Device Manufacturing
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
Podcasts: Design
How Tissue-Based Approaches Are Enabling Long-Term Implants
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: Medical
The Hidden Nervous System of Surgical Robotics: Power, Data & Sensing Behind...
Podcasts: Design
Surgical & Assistive Robotics: Redefining Human Capability
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.
