Automation & Controls

Gas, Fluid Handling, Pumps, & Valves

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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
See where the product focus is this month: Fluid handling, pumps, and valves, including Clippard's isolation valves with a hit-and-hold option; Raumedic AG's expanded portfolio of biopharmaceutical transfer tubing; Festo's expanded line of compact grippers; and more.
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Products: Medical
See the new products and services, including an IEC connector from Schurter; Raltron's series of electromagnetic buzzers; Midwest Interventional Systems' extrusion ordering system; SGS' expanded spray drug-delivery testing capabilities; Prima Power's latest addition to its 2D laser technology portfolio; ANCA's peel grinding platform designed to reduce cycle time; and more.
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Products: Robotics, Automation & Control
See where the product focus is this month: On pumps and valves, including items from Air Logic, Clippard, Emerson, and PI.
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Products: Photonics/Optics
See the products in the Product Showcase, including Omnetics’ Nano-D connectors, Cadence's complex medical devices, Formacoat's medical device coating application, the Lee Company’s Full Isolation Dual Seal Precision Dispense Pump, Ulbrich’s Braid Wire Accelerator® Program, and much more.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
As the demand for smaller, less intrusive — sometimes even wearable — products grow, engineers must meet these expectations without compromising on pump system performance.
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Trivia: Medical
It’s Super Bowl time! What somewhat controversial technology has been embraced by the NFL to aid players in recovery from injuries?
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Trivia: Robotics, Automation & Control
What neurosurgery technique was inspired by a wine bottle opener?
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Products: Software
See the new products and services, including Dillon Manufacturing's claw jaws, mesh-morphing technology from RBF Morph, an eQMS from Sierra Labs, Qosina's stopcock manifold, Surface Solutions Group's sustainable coating, Zuken's design platform, and more.
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Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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Features: Robotics, Automation & Control
The global market for both point-of-care testing instruments and home-use medical devices is expected to grow rapidly over the coming decades. To meet this demand, developers will continue to design products that are smaller, less complex, and easier to use.
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Products: Medical
See the product of the month: a micro diaphragm gas pump from KNF Neuberger.
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Products: Robotics, Automation & Control
This month's product: Trelleborg has launched a family of products, materials, and services for fluid path single-use equipment designed to accelerate the advancement of life-changing therapies.
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Products: Robotics, Automation & Control
This month's product focus is on pumps and valves, including tubular solenoids, flow sensors, pneumatic micropumps, and a centrifugal pump.
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Products: Robotics, Automation & Control
The Product Focus is on fluid handling, including miniature pinch valves, valve controller modules, rocker isolation valves, and more.
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Applications: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Here, the ways that RTPs can help optimize product-handling operations in the life science industries.
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
See the new products and services from Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) West, including a leak test instrument, a brushless DC motor, and more.
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Products: Robotics, Automation & Control
New products and services for December 2022, including a medical power offering, miniature solenoid valves, medical laser optics, and more.
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Products: Design
The manufacturing/assembly equipment Product Focus for November 2022.
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Inside Story: Robotics, Automation & Control
MDB spoke to Rodd Turnquist, National Sales Manager US, OEM Division, WMFTS, to find out more about selecting the best pumps for medical devices and accelerating time to market.
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Products: Medical
Power Clamps Destaco, Auburn Hills, MI, has released a series of power clamps that feature a lightweight, enclosed aluminum housing and optimized mechanics. The 82L-3E series is available in three versions...
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Products: Medical
Valve Manifolds Ethernet protocols and IO-link connectivity options are available for a valve manifold series from Norgren, Littleton, CO. The VR Series now includes Ethernet/IP, PROFINET, EtherCAT, and...
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Products: Robotics, Automation & Control
A robotic dispensing system and three kinds of valves.
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Trivia: Medical
Vacuum cleaners were used in what medical device in the early 20th century?
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Features: Connectivity
In our 2020 Product Buyer's Guide, you'll find a list of manufacturers in more than a dozen medical-device areas.
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Technology Leaders: Medical
One of the biggest challenges biomanufacturers face is downtime — something single-use technologies overcome.
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Technology Leaders: Medical
The latest benchtop dispensers provide a high degree of process control, capable of dispensing adhesives, solder pastes, and all other assembly fluids with high consistency.
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Features: Robotics, Automation & Control
Battery-powered, highly portable oxygen concentrators are a growing trend in patient mobility, but building the devices is still an engineering challenge.
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Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
VAT, a manufacturer of high-end vacuum valves, is providing crucial valves needed for the production of the development of medical flow sensors. Flow sensors are a...
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Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a crisis unlike anything the world has ever faced, and Clippard recognizes its unique role as a manufacturer of critical components and subassemblies for...
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Eric Dietsch on the Benefits of Nitinol Wire
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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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