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Products: Medical
Unitronics, Inc., Quincy, MA, a global developer and manufacturer of Programmable Logic Controllers with onboard HMIs, introduces the first member of its Jazz® 2 Series—the JZ20-R31. With 48K (virtual) Ladder Logic...
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Products: Medical
Portescap, West Chester, PA, introduces the P532 series disc magnet step motor with encoder. This integrated solution delivers a best-inclass power rate and acceleration to outperform standard Brushless DC...
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Products: Medical
Keystone Electronics Corp., Astoria, NY introduces a new series of airflow, Fan-Guard/Filter Assemblies designed to protect sensitive electronic devices. Durable multi-element assemblies deliver a consistent, 24 CPM...
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Products: Medical
Acopian Technical Company, Easton, PA, a leader in the design, manufacturing and distribution of custom, standard and modified-standard power supplies, launched its newly expanded Online Custom Power Supply System...
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Products: Medical
OFS, Somerset, NJ, a leading designer, manufacturer, and supplier of innovative fiber laser components, announced two new types of single-laser cavities scalable from 500W to Multi-kW for fiber laser applications....
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Products: Medical
Applimotion, Inc., Loomis, CA, introduces custom gear motors for high torque, low speed, and low profile applications. The assemblies combine precision gearing and direct drive frameless motor kits to form a new...
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Products: Medical
ConMed Linvatec, a leading global supplier of arthroscopic devices, multi-specialty endoscopic medical video systems, and powered surgical instruments, has developed the industry’s...
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Products: Medical
Applied Plastics Co., Inc., Norwood, MA, supplies Teflon-coated stainless steel or nitinol anti-stick forming mandrels that can be supplied cut-to-length for fuse welding and tipping operations. PTFE...
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R&D: Medical
Student Device May Help Avoid Repeated Breast Cancer Surgeries During a lumpectomy, surgeons can’t immediately tell whether all the cancer cells were removed. The excised tissue must be preserved and analyzed in a...
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R&D: Materials
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) plans to establish a new Advanced Materials Center of Excellence to facilitate collaborations between NIST and researchers from academia and...
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R&D: Medical
The first-ever auditory stem implant in a child was recently performed on a three-year-old boy from Charlotte, NC, named Grayson Clamp. He was given the device, which allows his brain to...
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R&D: Medical
Researchers at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, have developed a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique that detects signs of multiple sclerosis (MS) in finer detail than ever...
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R&D: Medical
During a lumpectomy for a breast tumor, doctors can’t immediately tell whether all of the cancerous tissue has been removed, with no microscopic signs that cancer cells were...
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Global Innovations: Medical
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Chinahttp://www.polyu.edu.hk/cpa/polyu/index.php Ateam of researchers in the Interdisciplinary Division of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at The...
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From the Editor: Medical
From the Editor — Sign of the Times or a Warning?
In mid-June, Charles “Chip” Starnes, a co-owner of Specialty Medical Supplies (SMS), Coral Gables, FL, a manufacturer of disposable medical products, visited the company’s factory in Beijing, China. He intended to personally lay off and distribute severance packages to about 30 employees of...
Mission Accomplished: Medical
Currently, in the United States alone, there are more than 10 million people whose movement is profoundly limited by diseases of and injuries to the brain and spinal cord. About half of these people...
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R&D: Medical
Inspired by the tail of a seahorse, which can be compressed to half its size without damage, scientists at the University of California, San Diego, are attempting to use similar engineering to create a...
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R&D: Imaging
A new design tool that can interpret hand gestures, enables designers at Purdue University, West Lafayette IN, to create and modify three-dimensional shapes using only their hands as a "natural user...
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R&D: Medical
A team of students at the Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering, Baltimore, MD, had the opportunity to design a new stethoscope to deliver more accurate heart and body sounds...
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R&D: Photonics/Optics
Nearly all lenses, whether natural, like the lens in your eye, or man-made, such as in a camera or microscope, are curved, which limits the amount of light that enters. But, using a spray-on...
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R&D: Materials
A slow-motion method of controlling the synthesis of polymers, inspired by trees and Celtic Knot designs, could open up new possibilities in areas including medical devices, drug delivery,...
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R&D: Electronics & Computers
Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology (UNIST), South Korea, has created contact lenses fitted with inorganic light-emitting diode, and tested them on a live rabbit with no...
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Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
As an increasing number of patients enter the operating room, more and more orthopedic surgeons are becoming orthopedic patients themselves. According to a survey entitled “Occupational Hazards...
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Features: Medical
Managing the environmental and regulatory performance of products is an increasingly complicated challenge for medical device manufacturers who face a myriad of requirements from regulators,...
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Products: Motion Control
Maxon Motor, Fall River, MA, introduces the EC4, a 4 mm diameter brushless DC motor and gearhead. Maxon increased the performance of this tiny motor using the latest winding technology along with the most powerful...
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Products: Software
Grayhill, Inc., La Grange, IL, announces the release of the latest version of its ground-breaking Instinct™ Gesture Recognition Library. Instinct is an innovative software tool that converts...
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Products: Electronics & Computers
Keystone Electronics Corp., Astoria, NY, has released the 2nd edition of its full line catalog of interconnect components and electronic hard ware featuring more than 5,000 quality products within easy-to-locate product...
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Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Fort Wayne Metals, Ft. Wayne, IN, announces its Endura™ bobbin designed for braiding applications. Endura bobbins are designed to reduce snags and breaks to significantly increase efficiency and uptime for...
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Products: Materials
Temp-Flex LLC, South Grafton, MA, designed its MediSpec™ micro extrusion primary wires to meet tight tolerance requirements for invasive and implantable applications in the medical industry. MediSpec...
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John Chandler on Achieving Quality Motion Control
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FAULHABER MICROMO brings together the highest quality motion technologies and value-added services, together with global engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing, to deliver top quality micro motion solutions. With 34 years’ experience, John Chandler injects a key engineering perspective into all new projects and enjoys working closely with OEM customers to bring exciting new technologies to market.

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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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