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Contract Firms Keep Competitive
How are smaller machining and laser processing companies keeping pace with changing market demands? By perfecting production routes and prototyping and relying on multipurpose machines. Keep your competitive edge by reading more in Medical Product Outsourcing's article that covers etching, laser cutting, welding, and working with braided tubing and multiple materials.
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Devise Durable Devices
How do advances in software and equipment enable orthopedic OEMs to devise new devices that will outlast their predecessors? Niche markets are tapped and new products developed as contract manufacturers diversify their services, adopt multi-axis machining, and refine smaller, more complex parts. Read the entire article in Orthopedic Design & Technology.
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Creativity Courses with CAD
Innovation and risk management, often at odds in device design, are more aligned with the use of advanced CAD software. As reported in Machine Design, medical companies are streamlining product development and pursuing innovative designs with 3D CAD systems. Simplify documentation, share design team data, and go for those more complex shapes.
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Pinpoint Process Flaws
A new tool for testing a product or manufacturing step is process signature verification (PSV), which provides the ability to assess process signatures based on physical parameters. See what PSV can do for you in this Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry case study of the force used to compress a spring.
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Beswick Engineering Co., Inc.
Miniature Quick Disconnects
Beswick miniature quick disconnects provide exceptionally quick connections while insuring proper orientation. Four, six, and eight line models can be ordered in single or double shut-off configuration. Offered in 316SS, 303SS, and brass with a wide variety of seal materials. The unique design is perfect for Medical Equipment.
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Producers of high voltage (up to 60 kV) of over 200 styles of flat and cylindrical, non-inductive thick film resistors. We also produce power packages in TO220 and SOT227 styles. We also have four terminal current sense resistors as low as 0.5 mR. EBG is ISO 9001:2000.
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Showerdent
PATENT FOR SALE Tremendous Opportunity on a Developed Product
Showerdent™ is unique! There is no other unit in the market or in the world like it today. I am looking for a seriously interested Individual or Company to take over this project.
— Purchase all existing molds
— Intellectual property
— Inventory
SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY!
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InterPRO Rapid Technologies
Medical Models
Maria Teresa and Maria de Jesus Quiej-Alvarez, born in Guatemala, were healthy except for being joined at the head. After 22 hours of surgery, the prognosis for both is excellent. Without rapid prototyping, say the doctors, the operation would've been much more difficult. Visit our gallery! Need parts for medical applications? Email us your needs: service@interpromodels.com
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Films are Star Material
Device design options can expand by the use of dissolvable films deployed in other markets. Precise dosing, controlled release of reagents, and realization of vertical flow and layered configurations in diagnostic devices are some of the benefits outlined in Medical Design Technology. Potential applications include in vitro diagnostic devices.
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Play Well with Platinum
It's gummy, abrasive, and doesn't machine like other materials, but the demand for medical parts made of inert platinum is increasing. Production headaches are thwarted at Johnson Matthey by use of custom-made fixtures and various electrical discharge machines to yield precision microcomponents. Solution specs are found in American Machinist.
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Micromotor Math Guide
How do you select a fractional HP DC micromotor for a particular medical device application? Rules and equations pertaining to the physics and practical uses of such motors are spelled out in Medical Design. Calculate required voltage, torque, and speed values to make the optimal choice for your application.
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Brush Up on Linear Motors
An article in Today's Medical Developments distinguishes between three types of brushless linear motors for linear motor applications: aircore, ironcore, and slotless. Brush up on the construction specifications, cost, weight, speed, and thermal management advantages and disadvantages in terms of speed, precision, response, stiffness, and backlash.
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Da/Pro Rubber, Inc.
Precision Custom Molded Rubber
A leading manufacturer of precision molded rubber, plastic, and TPE products. Whatever you create, we have the capability, knowledge, and experience to be your molding partner. We work hand-in-hand with our customers to design and manufacture unique precision molded rubber products, while providing the best customer support and technical advice possible.
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The Jilson Group
Medical Casters
Jilson provides hundreds of different casters and wheel assemblies. They are ideal for frequently washed-down areas, sterile zones, or applications subjected to corrosive elements. These casters are also built to withstand diverse weight capacities and come with many design options and looks, making them ideal for everything from diagnostic equipment to hospital beds.
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Dice
A Better Job Search by Design
DiceEngineering.com offers thousands of quality engineering jobs at top technology and engineering companies. Find jobs in your area of expertise. Search now.
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Benchmark Medical Manufacturing Practices
 U.S. and international regulators, medical device firm officials, lawyers, and others will attend the 2nd Annual Medical Device Regulatory, Reimbursement and Compliance Congress held at Harvard University, March 28-30. You should, too: learn innovative ways to comply with current and pending regulatory requirements, and compare what your firm is doing with others in the industry.
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Interactive DNA
Explore the science of DNA in genetic profiling and testing, forensic analysis, and drug design at DNA Interactive, featuring video and photographic timelines and explanations of relevant discoveries and applications. Was Anna Anderson really Anastasia Romanov of the last Imperial Tsarist family? The DNA tells us...nyet.
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