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Products: Medical
Elysium Inc., Southfield, MI, introduces the release of CADfeature 11.3, its new browser-enhanced, feature-based program for repairing, migrating, and reporting on product engineering data exchanged within manufacturing...
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Products: Medical
DePuy Synthes Power Tools, Palm Beach Gardens, FL, announced the global launch of the Anspach® EG1™ High Speed Electric System, a next generation high-speed electric drill with multiple attachments. The device...
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Products: Software
Saelig Company, Inc., Fairport, NY, announces the availability of Linux-based software for PicoScope PC-based oscilloscopes. PicoScope 6 for Linux allows a PC to be connected to a USB adapter to produce a...
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Products: Tubing & Extrusion
RiverTech Medical, Chattanooga, TN, has developed precision micro-tubing with variable flexibility for catheter-based medical devices. The micro-tubing offers two to three different stiffnesses...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Prima Power Laserdyne, Champlin, MN, announces the LASERDYNE 430 Series of precision laser systems with up to 20 kW QCW (quasi continuous wave) fiber lasers. This expands the...
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Products: Medical
NewAge Industries, Inc., Southampton, PA, introduced three types of medical-grade silicone tubing, with two types peroxide cured and one platinum cured. Silcon® Medical unreinforced tubing is extremely pliable,...
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Products: Medical
Momentive Performance Materials Inc., Columbus, OH, introduces its new fiber-reinforced liquid silicone rubber (LSR) to enhance the ergonomics and aesthetics of wearable medical devices. It can provide...
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Technology Leaders: Medical
The English (North America) dictionary definition of the word “precision” is accuracy (noun) or relating to accuracy (adjective). You will find the word “precision” takes...
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Technology Leaders: Medical
Laser machining has long been used in medical device manufacturing to create small sub-components with extremely fine features. More advanced manufacturers are...
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Mission Accomplished: Medical
For astronauts working aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in low-Earth orbit, getting adequate sleep is a challenge. For one, there’s that demanding and often unpredictable...
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Global Innovations: Medical
Holst Centre, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, and Imec, Leuven, Belgium http://www2.imec.be/be_en/home.html A team of researchers from the Holst Centre working with colleagues at Imec...
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From the Editor: Medical
From the Editor — But Will We Wear Them?
Speaking at a plenary panel session on Innovations Shaping the Future of Patient Care at Medical World Americas in Houston in April, Dr. Stephen N. Oesterle, Senior Vice President for Medicine and Technology at Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN, predicted that implantable and wearable sensor technology will be...
R&D: Medical
Professor Gil Weinberg, founding director of the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, has created a robotic drumming prosthesisthat can be attached to amputees’s arms and powers two...
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R&D: Medical
When a surgeon needs to repair a broken bone requiring screws and plates to help bond the broken sections so the fracture to heal, the "fixation devices" are usually made of metal alloys. But metal...
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R&D: Materials
Researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Boston, MA, say that they have developed a method for large-scale manufacturing of everyday objects using a fully degradable...
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R&D: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Spinal injuries can damage the nerve supply to the bladder, meaning that people cannot tell when their bladder is full and needs to be emptied. This can create excessively high pressure on the bladder, which...
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R&D: Medical
Astronauts in the Apollo program after just a few days in space, felt dizzy when standing. Tests revealed that each beat of their heart pumped less blood than it had before the...
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R&D: Materials
Researchers have discovered that creating a graphene-copper-graphene “sandwich” enhances copper’s heat conducting properties, which could help in shrinking electronics. Engineers at the...
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Features: Medical
By now, you have probably already heard that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is phasing out the AK-225 solvent at the end of this year. This means that if you are currently using an...
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Features: Medical
When one thinks of the term “disposable”, the first impression might be to associate the item as one being low cost and not requiring much precision in manufacturing....
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Products: Medical
Watson-Marlow Pumps Group, Wilmington, MA, introduces the DriveSure™, a new panel-mount OEM brushless DC gear motor with fully integrated speed controller. Its compact, lightweight, and well-balanced design...
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Products: Medical
Lumen Dynamics, Mississauga, Canada, expands its OmniCure® AC Series of UV LED curing solutions with four new high power, air-cooled UV LED curing solutions available in both 365nm and 395nm wave lengths. The Omni...
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Products: Medical
Lee Spring, Brooklyn, NY, expands its line of Bantam™ Mini Compression Springs with more than 100 new designs for use in reduced spatial parameters, with wire diameters from .10mm, and outside diameters from...
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Products: Medical
Tecsis LP, Worthington, OH, announces that its Model XPMF03 miniature pressure transducer has a flush diaphragm design, which creates zero dead volume at the pressure connection, making it ideal for spraying...
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Products: Test & Measurement
Hexagon Metrology, North Kingstown, RI, announces the M&H IRP40.50 infrared touch probe is ideal for inspecting tight spaces, and was designed to address the needs of miniature machining centers. It...
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Products: Medical
Zeus, Orangeburg, SC, engineered its PEEK Engineered Surface tubing to be 14 percent more lubricious compared to standard PEEK tubing. The new Engineered Surface PEEK tubing uses enhanced PEEK properties and is...
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Products: Medical
XP Power, Sunnyvale, CA, introduces the dual output EMH350 series of 350 Watt AC-DC power supplies aimed at a broad range of applications that require a dual output supply in an industry standard 4...
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Products: Medical
MICROMO, Clearwater, FL, announces the latest addition to the FAULHABER CR DC Motor series. Its graphite commutation, powerful neodymium magnet, and particularly high copper content in the rotor winding provide the...
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Products: Medical
RAM Technologies LLC, Guilford, CT, introduces the world’s first 600 watt medically approved (UL60601-1) ATX/EPS power supply. The PFC600PCX is designed to satisfy both the high-end ATX and EPS12V server and ITE...
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Ask the Expert

Dan Sanchez on How to Improve Extruded Components
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Improving extruded components requires careful attention to a number of factors, including dimensional tolerance, material selection, and processing. Trelleborg’s Dan Sanchez provides detailed insights into each of these considerations to help you advance your device innovations while reducing costs and speeding time to market.

Inside Story

Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
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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.

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