Manufacturing
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2023.06.13
How Human Factors Engineering Can Contribute to Medical Device Packaging
Even though packaging for medical devices occurs when manufacturing is complete, planning for packaging must be applied at the very beginning of the product design and carried on throughout the development process.
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2023.06.12
Pain Points When Maintaining a Cleanroom
Since publishing the original article, a few additional pain points to maintaining a cleanroom have been pinpointed, such as stringent protocol compliance, cost of maintenance, and environmental factors.
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2023.05.23
Practical Strategies for Digitization and Integration in Medtech Manufacturing
Data science continues to evolve to support increasing demands for predictive insights and dynamic systems. The innovation in this field is welcomed and is changing all industry sectors, including medtech manufacturing.
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2023.05.17
Flexible Films for Medical Devices and Packaging—A Medtech Makers Q&A
Packaging for medical devices must accomplish a number of tasks. First, it must protect the device within from damage during transportation to the end user.
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2023.04.06
How Does Proactive Equipment Maintenance Improve Medical Product Quality?
we explore how proactive equipment maintenance enables your facility to produce medical products that meet the highest standards, reduces downtime, enhances safety, and increases your equipment’s lifespan.
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2023.04.04
Consider Phase Zero: The Importance of DFX to Meet Deadlines, Deliverables
In the medical device industry, there are huge pressures and incentives to file FDA 510(k) or PMA submissions to gain approval for market entry.
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2023.03.31
Designing for Manufacturing: 5 Common Startup Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them)
Your medical device may be novel, easy to use, even groundbreaking. But it won’t have the chance to be any of those things to real users – and earn real revenue – if you can’t manufacture it rapidly, efficiently, and consistently.
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2023.03.27
Common Paratubing Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
Also known as peel-apart tubing, paratubing entails a set of tubes bonded to remain bundled together until device assembly, patient care, or other pre-determined point of separation.
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2023.03.24
Could this 3D printing method create bone-like ortho implants?
Researchers in Switzerland have developed an ink that could potentially 3D print virtually any shape and gradually mineralize in a few days.
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2023.03.14
Sourcing Silicone Parts: Injection Mold or 3D Print?
Medical device manufacturers have plenty of materials to choose from when designing parts, but one of the most popular and widely used is liquid silicone rubber (LSR), more commonly and somewhat inaccurately referred to as silicone.
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