Materials & Manufacturing

Advances in materials and manufacturing are leading to better implants, prosthetics, and devices. Browse innovative developments in materials and manufacturing that significantly impact medical device design and production.

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Micronor Inc., Newbury Park, CA, introduces the world’s first commercially-available MRI-safe linear position sensor system for OEM motion control applications. With 100μm...
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Products: Medical
Mouser Electronics, Inc., Mansfield, TX, is now stocking the MAX30100 Pulse Oximeter and Heart-Rate Sensor IC for wearable health from Maxim Integrated. The MAX30100 is a 14-pin surface mount IC that combines the...
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Products: Medical
Delta Tau Data Systems, Inc., Chatsworth, CA, offers a new control method called Spectral Decomposition to improve the productivity of systems that use fast-tool actuators. Spectral Decomposition seamlessly coordinates...
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Products: Medical
Dynapar, Gurnee, IL, is offering a free 30- day beta test trial to all interested and qualified parties, for its key product families of incremental and absolute encoders, with thousands of configurations available....
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Products: Medical
Haydon Kerk Motion Solutions, Waterbury, CT, announces the latest addition to its IDEA drive line of motor controllers: the PBL4850E programmable 3-phase brushless motor drive, which features automatic...
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Products: Medical
Linear Technology Corporation, Milpitas, CA, introduces the LTC2984, a high performance digital temperature measurement integrated circuit (IC) that directly digitizes RTDs, thermocouples, thermistors, and...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
SCHURTER Inc., Santa Rosa, CA, has expanded its portfolio of block filters for single-phase systems, with its new FMAB NEO series. This filter is extremely compact, has a polished steel housing, is completely shielded no...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Fluid Metering, Inc., Syosset, NY, announces that its miniature, stepper driven valveless OEM pumps are ideal for low and micro-volume fluid control in medical diagnostic and clinical chemistry instrumentation. The...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Davis Standard, LLC, Pawcatuck, CT, introduces its Medical Direct Drive (MEDD) Extruder for tight tolerance tubing. The MEDD offers processors greater materials flexibility in a compact design. It features a replaceable feed...
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Products: Medical
Acme Metal Spinning, Minneapolis, MN, uses a metal spinning process to seamlessly form flat metal discs and pre-formed metal work pieces on CNC metal spinning lathes into components for medical device and...
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Products: Medical
Gardner Denver Thomas, Inc., Sheboygan, WI, introduces the Thomas 1610 advanced diaphragm pump, which combines precise, consistent performance with very low sound levels, making it ideal for devices working near patients. Its...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Zemax, LLC, Kirkland, WA, announces the next version of its optical and illumination design software. OpticStudio 15 adds highly requested features, including a new COM/.NET API for communicating with external programs, a...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Butler Automatic, Middleborough, MA, announces that its SP1 Series Automatic Film Splicer is ideally suited for medical device packaging applications. It increases efficiency in packaging operations by...
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Products: Medical
Colordyne Technologies, Brookfield, WI, introduces its new 2600 Series Mini Press, a commercial class roll-to-roll label printing system featuring an intuitive touch screen interface, allowing flexibility and on the fly...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
KNF Neuberger, Inc., Trenton, NJ, has added two compact, powerful models, the NFB 5 and NFB 25, to its line of brushless DC powered NFB boxer pumps. The pumps offer low pulsation, gentle transfer of liquids from 5...
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Products: Medical
Watson-Marlow Inc., Wilmington, MA, announces that its 400RXMD OEM pumps feature a range of precise pressure settings that allows users to tailor products to specific customer applications. An innovative mechanism provides up...
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Products: Medical
Albright Technologies, Leominster, MA, has introduced liquid silicone injection molding services for prototype and low volume production purposes. Its new injection molding presses are suited for small,...
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Products: Medical
Hoffmann–Krippner Inc., Frisco, TX, introduces a wide range of LVDT sensors for contactless and wear-free path and position detection. The sensors operate on the principle of the differential transformer and...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The Lee Company, Westbrook, CT, introduces a new variable volume pump, the LPD Series Stepper Dispense Pump. Available in 50 and 250 microliter full dispense volumes, this miniature chemically inert pump was...
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Products: Medical
Acopian Power Supplies, Easton, PA, announces that its Narrow Profile power supply series is now certified to UL 60950 and UL 508, and conforms to all requirements to achieve CE marking. The single-output switching...
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Products: Medical
FLIR Systems, Wilsonville, OR, ann ounces the release of version 4.2 of its ResearchIR software, which provides a powerful tool for viewing, acquiring, analyzing, and sharing the thermal data captured with FLIR’s...
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Products: Medical
ODU-USA, Camarillo, CA, is offering the entire compressed air and fluid range of ODU-MAC® with higher flow rates and/or high operating pressure for a wide range of medical, industrial, and measurement and testing...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Enercon Industries Corporation, Menomonee Falls, WI, has released its new series of industrial blown arc and blow ion plasma treaters to be used on plastics, glass, and metals. These new systems provide simplified...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
ams AG, Raleigh, NC, introduces the AS3701, a micro-PMIC (power management IC), with an especially small footprint for use in wearables and other space-constrained devices. The AS3701 with a low...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
METCASE, Bridgeville, PA, uses digital printing for front panels, rack cases, and instrument housings. METCASE’s new state of the art digital technology means legends, logos, and complex photo quality graphics can be...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Advantech Corporation, Irvine, CA, introduces its PCE-4 series, a breakthrough product line employing PICMG 1.3 half-size form factor and support for Intel® work station-grade CPUs. PCE-4128 fulfills the needs of...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Keystone Electronics Corp., Astoria, NY, has released its new full line Catalog M65, one of industry’s most comprehensive resources for interconnect components and electronic hardware. This free catalog details more...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Alpha Wire, Elizabeth, NJ, introduces EcoFlex® PUR continuous flex cables that feature reduced size and weight and zero halogen construction in a rugged, oil-resistant cable for continuous flex applications....
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Werth, Inc., Old Saybrook, CT, has re-engineered the Werth ScopeCheck multisensor coordinate measuring machine, which has been designed especially for use in manufacturing. The measurement range of this series of...
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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.

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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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