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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Robotics and Prosthetics: Skin-Like Sensors Wrap Around Objects
Researchers have developed an automatic process for making soft sensors. These universal measurement cells can be attached to almost any kind of object. Applications are envisioned especially in robotics and prosthetics.
The Supply and Availability of Radiopharmaceuticals
These medical isotope-fueled compounds are being used for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, neurological disorders, and cardiovascular disease.
Implementing Automated Systems in Medical Manufacturing
A combination of advancing technology, shortages of skilled workers, and the need to make effective use of available employees is driving automation in medical manufacturing. According to an article by The Hartman Team, US manufacturing today has over two million unfilled jobs and those employers who fail to act now will face greater problems in the future. However, automated systems are complex and deciding where and how to apply them requires a complete understanding of the intricacies involved in equipment development and qualifications. Trelleborg discusses the potential benefits, suitable applications, and the development process of automated systems.
