Enhancing Manufacturing Efficiency with High-Performance Coatings

Medical device manufacturing is a highly regulated industry that demands precision and faces numerous challenges. Ensuring efficiency, compliance, and safety is crucial for maintaining the integrity of the manufacturing process and the quality of the final products. Adherence to FDA regulations and Current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) standards requires manufacturing facilities to uphold clean and controlled environments, often resulting in considerable downtime and maintenance expenses. These shutdowns can disrupt production schedules, impact productivity, and ultimately affect profitability.

How Sterilization Affects TPU-Based Medical Devices

Choosing the right material for a medical device is tough enough on its own. Add sterilization to the mix, and the puzzle gets even trickier. Most developers and engineers are focused on the product—how it functions, fits, and affords patients a better experience. But if the sterilization process doesn’t hold up, your best materials and design won’t either. Thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPUs) are a perfect example—these polymers are a reminder that sterilization isn’t just a technical detail but something that can shape the success of a medical device from multiple angles.

Your Guide to Medical Device Sterilization: Methods, Compliance, Challenges & Trends

Sterilization has always played a central role in medical device development. But today, it’s no longer just a matter of checking a regulatory box or signing off on a quality assurance protocol. It’s a design constraint, a supply chain risk, and increasingly, a competitive differentiator. Further, a next generation of sterilization modalities are emerging.

Transformative Medical Device Testing

The medical device industry is on the brink of profound transformation, driven by breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI), wearables, additive manufacturing (AM), and enhanced cybersecurity. Medical device manufacturers (MDMs) are starting to embrace the integration of automation, digitization, and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. So far in 2025, testing firms report increased interest in the end-of-life use of reusable devices, human factors testing for instructions for use (IFU), and low-temperature sterilization methods for temperature-sensitive devices.

The Critical Role of Supply Chain Visibility for Post-Market Surveillance

In recent years, medical device regulators have implemented stricter requirements for post market surveillance (PMS), as seen in frameworks like the EU Medical Device Regulation (MDR), the In Vitro Diagnostics Regulation (IVDR), and the UK’s Statutory Instrument (SI) coming into effect on June 16, 2025.

How Early FDA Engagement Can Accelerate Medical Device Approval & Reduce Market Delays

By interacting with FDA as early as medical device conception, and taking advantage of one or more FDA programs, manufacturers can shorten their time to market and significantly reduce expenditures.

Will Abbott Have a Strong Year for M&A?

During a 4Q23 earnings call, Ford was asked by an analyst about Abbott’s strong balance sheet, which was described as “$20 billion worth of firepower”, and if that would prompt the company to become involved with acquisitions this year.

MMT Acquires Ward Automation Galway, Somex: Launches MMT Automation Division

The addition of these technologies and services enables MMT to better serve its medical device manufacturing customers by offering highly specialized robotization and integrated solutions for their most challenging production needs.