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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The No. 932 electrically heated, 500°F cabinet oven from Grieve (Round Lake, IL) is used to cure large silicone rubber parts. Workspace dimensions measure 50"W × 50"D × 50"H. 60 kW power installed in Incoloy-sheathed tubular...
Products: Medical
Seco Tools (Troy, MI) offers the Feedmax™ SD230A solid carbide 30xD drill in diameters ranging from 4 mm to 10 mm as standard, with 3 mm available as semi-standard. A 4-facet point geometry provides centering capability, with...
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
NVision (Coppell, TX) now offers industrial CT scanning for reverse engineering and full inspection of medical components. Industrial CT scanning utilizes X-ray equipment to produce 3D representations of both internal and...
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
EPSON Robots (Carson, CA) has introduced a high performance 110 VAC power solution with EPSON C3 Compact 6 Axis Robots for non-manufacturing environments such as medical laboratories, clinics, and...
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
HEIDENHAIN Corporation (Schaumburg, IL) has introduced low profile incremental rotary encoders with block commutation tracks for use in small-dimensioned servo motors. The encoders come equipped with a 35-mm housing...
Briefs: Medical
Utilizing Machine Vision Engines for Advanced Quality Control and Object Detection
Incorporating machine vision engines into an OEM system with automated handling provides a wide range of benefits to the manufacturer. Machine vision engines are self-contained vision systems that include the optics, lighting, image sensor, electronics, and software...
Briefs: Medical
Maintaining Sterility Assurance Level in Medical Device Design
A medical device undergoing design and classified as sterile will be confronted with various obstacles, not the least of which is how to determine and maintain its proposed Sterility Assurance Level (SAL) as it approaches its ultimate goal: delivery to market.
Features: Medical
A recent study by Josh Makower, MD, and a team of researchers from Stanford University found that, on average, medical device companies spend $31 million to bring a low-to-medium-risk...
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Rapid Prototyping
Jabil (St. Petersburg, FL) has opened a Class 100K clean room for rapid prototyping of disposable medical devices. The new facility provides capabilities for ultrasonic welding, ultraviolet curing, solvent bonding, overmolding, laminar air flow, and bag and blister packaging and testing. The room was designed to offer the same...
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Premold Corp. (Oconomowoc, WI) offers the PREMOLD PROCESS™, an approach that includes design consultation, detailed engineering, and comprehensive manufacturing solutions for medical equipment manufacturers. Design...
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Visible Optical Filter for Spot Curing
IRphotonics (Hamden, CT) offers the Visible Optical Filter for the iCure® AS200 Thermal Spot Curing System to enable heating of heat-sensitive plastics used in disposable medical devices. The optical filter eliminates all visible wavelengths except for a mild red pointer glow to provide infrared energy above...
Products: Medical
EOS GmbH (Krailling, Germany) has released the EOSINT M280, the updated version of the EOSINT M270, for additive layer manufacturing of metal components. The system produces metal parts on the basis of 3D CAD data in only...
Products: Medical
Nordson EFD (Westlake, OH) has introduced the Ultimus™ V high-precision dispenser designed to keep the amount of adhesive or other fluid vused in medical device assembly processes consistent as it gets thicker or...
Products: Medical
Qosina (Edgewood, NY) has introduced a needle hub sample kit as a prototyping tool set for designers and engineers. The combination of hub connector, bushing, and cap allows for the creation of a fluid delivery or...
Products: Medical
Premold Corp. (Oconomowoc, WI) offers the PREMOLD PROCESS™, an approach that includes design consultation, detailed engineering, and comprehensive manufacturing solutions for medical equipment manufacturers....
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A lens that enables microscopic objects to be seen from nine different angles at once to create a 3D image has been developed. Other 3D microscopes use multiple lenses or cameras that...
Briefs: Medical
Engineers have long been aware of the potential of laser sintering to create innovative and beneficial medical products. Because it is an additive (layer-by-layer) manufacturing process, laser...
Briefs: Materials
Although the concept of nanotechnology (controlling matter on an atomic scale) dates back to 1959, it is only now becoming more commercially realized. It has the potential to challenge...
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Thomson (Wood Dale, IL) has introduced the 400 Series profile rail linear guides, available in 4 meter lengths, in sizes from 15 to 45 mm in 5 mm increments, for extended joint-free rail transfer, even in smaller-sized...
Products: Medical
Vishay Precision Group (Malvern, PA) has announced that its VPG Transducers division is now offering a full range of force sensors for infusion pump manufacturers, customized to meet force measurement...
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
HEIDENHAIN (Schaumburg, IL) offers RCN 2000, RCN 5000, and RCN 8000 Series angle encoders that provide improved mounting tolerances due to the better axial and radial deflection behavior, as well as the torsional rigidity, of the...
Products: Medical
PureFlo® Junior capsule filter assemblies from ZenPure (Manassas, VA) are ready-to-use filters for small pre-filtration, clarification, and final filtration in medical and DI water applications. The assemblies are available...
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Clippard Instrument Laboratory (Cincinnati, OH) has introduced a line of air jets made of brass and stainless steel designed to deliver a concentrated flow of air or liquid to a designated location. Featuring a unique...
Mission Accomplished: Manufacturing & Prototyping
When compressed air mixes with jet fuel and is ignited in a turbine engine, the temperature can reach 3,000 °F. As a result of this fiery exhaust, the turbine spins and then forces the air through...
Applications: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Concurrent Engineering Accelerates Surgical Instrument Solutions
Development and production of a small, lightweight, ergonomically designed arthroscopic device powerful enough to bridge the gap between different types of surgeries usually takes at least 24 months.
Applications: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A device manufacturer was trying to design a complicated dose delivery monitoring system for an inhaler. The monitoring system is meant to rectify a significant problem:...
Features: Medical
Time to market is of critical importance for medical instruments. A difference of even a few months in the release of a product can significantly impact the ROI of the project, both...
Products: Imaging
The ScopeCheck® coordinate measuring machine from Werth, Inc. (Old Saybrook, CT) includes an image processing sensor and software designed for requirements of dimensional measurement to allow fully automatic measurement of...
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Optical Gaging Products (Rochester, NY) offers the SmartScope® Flash™ 500 automatic dimensional measurement system. The Flash 500’s 500×450×200 mm measurement volume is now available with a volume as large as 500 ×...
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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.
