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Products: Electronics & Computers
EMCO High Voltage Corporation (Sutter Creek, CA) has introduced the A Series of ultra-miniature, DC to HV DC converters that occupy less than one-tenth of a cubic inch of volume, and an extremely low profile of 0.250...
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Products: Medical
The AVID Airway SystemTM is an interchangeable component-based video laryngoscopy system, designed and manufactured by Instrument Technology (Westfield, MA) to handle intubation applications. The system includes an...
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Products: Medical
The Duraglide™ family of dry film lubricants from MicroCare Medical (New Britain, CT) is custom-blended for single-use medical devices and mechanical assemblies destined for the operating room that function outside of...
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Products: Materials
Biomedical textiles from Secant Medical (Perkasie, PA) offer design flexibility and choice with unique combinations of fabric geometries and versatile fiber architectures to enable less invasive delivery techniques in new...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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...
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Products: Robotics, Automation & Control
Watson-Marlow Pumps Group (Wilmington, MA) offers the 400/RX1 pump for medical design and manufacturing. It is suitable for catheter washing and cooling applications requiring pressures to 100 psi or flow rates up to 80...
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Products: Materials
Abrisa Technologies (Santa Paula, CA) delivers customized precision optical glass assemblies and thin-film optical coatings for medical devices and analytical instruments. Glass is cleanable, dimensionally stable, and...
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Products: Motion Control
The RP8300 Series illuminated round push-button switch from E-Switch (Minneapolis, MN) is encased in a metal die cast housing and features a threaded panel mount. It is sealed to IP65 standards and offers a long...
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Products: Medical
Siemens (Chicago, IL) offers CNC solutions featuring the Sinumerik® 840D sl CNC, the Sinamics® S120 drive system, and high-performance motors that enable machine tool users to create CAD/CAM data with NX CAM, as well as...
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Products: Electronics & Computers
LEMO USA (Rohnert Park, CA) has introduced the REDEL® XP Connector Series, designed using a plastic material that is resistant to sterilization. The latching system is embedded in the shell for increased impact resistance...
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Products: Medical
Piher International (Libertyville, IL) offers the non-contacting MTS 360 SMD rotary position sensor, suitable for optical imaging stabilization and precision biomedical devices. The MTS combines a...
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Products: Medical
Teknor Apex Company (Pawtucket, RI) has released the Medalist MD458, a high-purity formulation that has passed ISO 10993-5 cytotoxicity testing, is RoHS compliant, and provides a Shore A hardness of 70. It features a...
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Products: Medical
The MD1715 and TC8020 ultrasound driver chipset from Supertex (Sunnyvale, CA) generates a five level waveform for high-resolution imaging in medical ultrasound applications. The MD1715 is a two-channel logic...
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Products: Medical
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: Materials
UV Curable Silicone Rubber
Momentive Performance Materials (Columbus, OH) has introduced the Addisil UV 60 EX elastomer for medical applications where lower temperatures during manufacturing and typical silicone rubber physical properties are both mandatory. The elastomer has minimal shrinkage and reduced air entrapment when compared to heat cured...
Products: Medical
LDRA (Wirral, UK) has launched a tool suite that offers support for the IEC 61508 and IEC 61508:2010 standards, functional safety standards for electrical/electronic/programmable electronic (E/E/PE) systems, from...
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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. Design...
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Products: Electronics & Computers
Protek Power (Hudson, MA) has introduced the PM202 and PU202 Series AC/DC power supplies, which offer 200 watts of performance for a variety of applications ranging from patient vicinity medical devices to laboratory...
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Products: Software
Hagiwara Sys-Com (Irvine, CA) has launched USB, a portable virus detection tool for Windows OS-based industrial systems. The software requires no installation and virus definitions can be downloaded to the Vaccine USB...
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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...
Research News: Lighting
Pure organic compounds that glow in jewel tones could potentially lead to cheaper, more efficient, and flexible display screens, among other applications....
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Articles: Lighting Technology
Glass and transparent plastics, especially acrylic resins, have long been used in the lighting industry for various aesthetic and functional purposes. As the industry has evolved, light-emitting...
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Articles: Lighting Technology
Industry professionals and researchers engaged in the measurement and characterization of light sources are confronted by the age old question — should an instrument be utilized which employs...
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Articles: Lighting
Semiconductor-based light-emitting diode (LED) devices first appeared in the 1960s. Today, with the advances in materials, design, and manufacture of LED devices, we are seeing a wide spectrum of LEDs that are cheaper,...
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Briefs: Lighting
Polymer nanofibers are nanoscale materials whose properties can be adjusted to provide desirable light management performance for high-efficiency solid-state lighting (SSL)...
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Briefs: Lighting
Early phosphor-converted white light-emitting diodes (LEDs) produced light with poor color characteristics in terms of color rendering index (CRI) and correlated color...
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Application Briefs: Lighting
Kopp Glass, Pittsburgh, PA Incandescent lamps have been used as the primary light source in airfield lighting designs for many years. With recent environmental awareness of the general population and government...
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Application Briefs: Lighting
Honeywell, Phoenix, AZ Airbus, Toulouse, France Honeywell's light-emitting diode (LED) wingtip navigation lighting is now standard on new production Airbus A320 Family aircraft, comprising the A318, A319, A320,...
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Application Briefs: Lighting
This technology involves the use of an extensible array of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as a means of sensing incident light levels. The light-sensing LED array can be used to construct highly-dynamic...
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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.