Advanced Laser Welding Techniques for Titanium Pacemaker Housing: Achieving Precision, Reliable and Hermetic Sealing

A pacemaker is a small device that helps control your heartbeat so you can return to your normal life. It has three main parts: a pulse generator that creates electrical signals, a controller-monitor that manages these signals, and leads that deliver the signals to the heart. One key benefit of the pacemaker is its strong titanium casing. Titanium is very strong and lightweight, and it is biocompatible, meaning it works well with the body without causing harmful reactions. This metal is highly resistant to corrosion, which helps keep the casing intact and protective even when exposed to bodily fluids.

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.

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.

Test and Measurement: Regulatory Updates and Strategic Implications

Medical device companies are operating in a climate of rapid transformation. The traditional regulatory and testing frameworks that have guided development for decades are evolving, prompted by technological innovation, increased globalization, and lessons learned during recent public health challenges.

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.

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.