Manufacturing
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2023.11.14
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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2023.09.07
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.
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2023.08.25
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.
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2023.08.18
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.
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2023.07.28
How to Improve Instructions for Use
User-based research, enhanced visual elements, and early co-development of product and packaging support IFU designs for medical devices.
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2023.07.20
Enhancing Safety in Medical Device Manufacturing: The Power of Connected Worker Technology
The medical device manufacturing industry operates within an inherently high-stakes environment, where the pursuit of innovation must be continually balanced with the need for workforce safety.
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2023.07.12
How to Build a Better PAP Machine
Positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy devices are widely used to treat many of the approximately 30 million people managing sleep apnea in the United States. CPAP (Continuous positive airway pressure) machines are the most common.
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2023.07.04
Best Practices to De-Risk the Medical Device Supply Chain
Although the raw material supply chain is generally recovering from pandemic-related disruptions, many manufacturers continue to build inventory to circumvent potential imbalances.
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