Manufacturing
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2024.01.29
Navigating the complexities of micromoulding for medical devices
Micromoulding is a specialised form of injection moulding that produces extremely small, high-precision parts, often with intricate features and complex geometries. In the medical device industry, Micromoulding has become an indispensable technology due to the trend towards miniaturisation and the increasing complexity of medical devices.
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2024.01.22
Begin With the End in Mind When Developing Wearable Devices
Dave Liebl, chief commercial & technology officer at Intricon, has one main piece of advice for wearable biosensor manufacturers. “If you think there’s a chance that your device would be a medically approved and recognized data source for making medical diagnoses or deliver therapeutic values, then you should start the development of that product with that in mind,” he said in a recent interview with Design News.
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2024.01.05
Key considerations for electromagnetic sensors for surgical navigation
This article details the advantages of EMN for surgical navigation and explores considerations for optimizing sensor performance, cost, and manufacturability.
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2023.12.18
What is the Minimum Acceptable LRV for Medical Packaging?
The package must demonstrate strength, integrity, and microbial barrier properties to maintain the sterile barrier through the intended shelf life. However, it is left to the individual medical device manufacturers to determine how to meet the requirement and create acceptance criteria for their sterile barrier packaging validations.
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2023.12.15
Medical Device Maker Enhances its Packaging 3D Printing Workflow with a Benchtop Multiplier Pressure Former
In the realm of advanced medical device development, Switzerland’s Oertli Instrumente AG has transformed its prototyping and packaging processes by integrating the Mayku Mulitplier pressure former into its 3D printing workflow.
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2023.12.01
Pioneering the Future of Healthcare: Meet the Trailblazing 2023 Medical Finalist and Honorable Mentions
The 21st annual “Create the Future” Design Contest for engineers, students, and entrepreneurs worldwide, sponsored by COMSOL, Inc., and Mouser Electronics, drew more than 500 innovative product ideas from engineers and students in from 60 countries from around the world. The Medical category itself received 54 innovative entries from 22 countries. Analog Devices and Intel were supporting sponsors, and Zeus sponsored the Medical category.
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2023.11.14
Choosing the right adhesive for assembling medical devices
There is no such thing as a perfect adhesive, and choosing an appropriate material requires careful consideration at the design stage. Design engineers can weigh up functionality, processability, and commercial factors to strike a balance between performance and production efficiency.
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Your Most Pressing Steerable Catheter Design Questions Answered
The Edwards Lifesciences Pascal Transcatheter Valve Repair System is an example of a structural heart device that leverages a steerable catheter design.
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2023.11.02
How to Build a Better Surgical Hand Tool
Here’s how engineers can design surgical hand tools that are smaller and quieter, with longer battery life and a few other end-user-requested features.
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2023.09.26
How to Build Better Medical Microelectronics
Could integrated computing power and microelectronic building blocks help you deliver next-gen implantable sensors, wearable devices, or portable instruments?
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