News: Regulations/Standards
TÜV SÜD has received approval as a UK Approved Body (UKAB) for medical devices. With this approval, medical device manufacturers can implement UKCA certification for the UK market and CE...
Features: Robotics, Automation & Control
BIOMEDevice Boston brings engineers, business leaders, disruptive companies, and innovative thinkers from the region’s top start-ups and medical device OEMs together to inspire the next life-changing medical device. The event will focus on key advances in robotics and 3D printing among other cutting-edge technologies.
News: Medical
Portugal’s Secretary of State for Digitalization and Administrative Modernization Mário Campolargo will deliver the inaugural speech at the MES &...
Features: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
In this Expert Insight, Nadia Hajjar, Category Manager for Life Sciences at Porex, provides perspective on the ins and outs of designing custom components, including leveraging customization to decrease device complexity and reduce component costs.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The Intracellular Drug Delivery Centre will help predict the stability, efficacy, performance, and any potential adverse reactions of RNA vaccines and therapeutics.
Features: Medical
With all the benefits implantable systems offer therapy developers, clinicians, and patients, it is easy to see why market projections for this segment are on the rise.
Inside Story: Robotics, Automation & Control
To find out more about selecting and implementing automation solutions, MDB recently spoke with Dave McMorrow, Technical Director, MMT Automation and Michael Wall, Technical Director, Somex Automation, an MMT company.
Products: Photonics/Optics
The new products and services this month include an electronic rotary latch, an ultra black laser marking series, a hybrid hexapod, and more.
Applications: Software
Formed in 2005, Orchid Orthopedic Solutions is a medical device manufacturer providing contract manufacturing services for orthopedic procedures to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and other companies within the orthopedic industry.
From the Editor: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Medical device company Mighty Oak Medical recently announced a technical partnership with HP for 3D printed healthcare applications to improve pedicle screw placement in spinal procedures.
News: Manufacturing & Prototyping
MGS Mfg. Group, Inc. (MGS), a global provider of integrated manufacturing solutions for complex, high-precision plastic components for healthcare and pharma applications, has acquired...
INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Using 3D printing and hydrogel technology, researchers are moving closer to being able to create devices that better match the human body than the electronic devices...
Supplements: Materials
In our summer edition of the MDB Resource Guide, learn about new cleaning requirements and find the right company to match your medical-design needs.
Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
OEMs in the medical device market are taking a close look at all their suppliers and making changes. Demand for more affordable and accessible medical devices is forcing OEMs to control costs by consolidating supply chains and outsourcing more tasks.
Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The challenge for pharma is how to extend the commercial life of mature products while keeping maintenance costs low and ensuring they adhere to everchanging regulations across the globe — all while juggling the innovation for new products.
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
See the new products and services, including servo motor drives, leak testing equipment, rupture disk product selection, an automated regrinding system, and more.
R&D: Medical
A new technology that uses bioprinted patches to repair damaged heart tissue has been proven to be safe and cost-effective for patients.
News: Robotics, Automation & Control
Medical Manufacturing Technologies (MMT), a portfolio company of Arcline Investment Management and a global provider of medical device manufacturing solutions, has...
News: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The MedAccred program continues to provide value to medical device manufacturers that have been awarded its prestigious accreditation for critical manufacturing processes, according...
Global Innovations: Medical
Researchers are developing a 3D-printed insole with integrated sensors that allows the pressure of the sole to be measured in the shoe and thus during any activity. This helps athletes or patients to determine performance and therapy progress.
R&D: Medical
Researchers have pioneered a 3D printable ink that contains Sporosarcina pasteurii: a bacterium that, when exposed to a urea-containing solution, triggers a mineralization...
Features: Materials
A previous article described the theoretical framework for USW of thermoplastics. This article presents the key parameters and materials influencing an ultrasonic welding process, so that USW can be accomplished successfully.
News: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Teleflex Incorporated, a global provider of medical technologies, has broken ground to launch an expansion project for its Teleflex Medical OEM facility in Jaffrey, NH. The project...
News: Medical
The Performance Review Institute (PRI) has expanded its management systems certification portfolio through the acquisition of SRI Quality System Registrar. SRI is headquartered...
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The April 2023 Product Focus is on laser machining/marking.
Products: AR/AI
See the new products and services for April 2023, including dynamic pressure controls, AI processors, modeling and simulation software, and more.
From the Editor: Medical
Here are the winners of the 2022 Medical Design Briefs’ Readers’ Choice Products of the Year.
Briefs: Power
It may be possible to use electrostatic actuators in artificial muscles thanks to research that made use of ferroelectric materials to create an electrostatic actuator that can generate a strong force at a low driving voltage.
Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
If the race to meet short-term milestones is run blindly, it can forever hamstring a medical device timeline.