What To Do When Your Injection Molder Closes Shop
An unfortunate but sometimes unavoidable dilemma is how to best transfer part production from one injection molder to another. Factors that might make...
Placing lubrication with precision
Many medical devices require some type of coating, ranging from lubricants that keep parts moving smoothly to reagents on point-of-care test strips. While...
How to print small readable type
A newly developed machine prints small high-quality characters on substrates that can be porous, nonporous, smooth, textured, curved, and concave. The...
The changing shape of micromachining
Contract manufacturers that perform precision micromachining play a useful role developing prototypes of biomedical parts smaller than 2 in3. Micromachining can replace or complement traditional EDM, forming, stamping, and injection molding for plastics, aluminum, brass, titanium, stainless steel, ceramics, and glass. For example, prototypes traditionally micro-injection-molded can be machined instead, thereby eliminating the need for expensive molds. Micromachining is also suitable for micro medical parts requiring intricate 3D freeform geometry....
Metric standards for worldwide manufacturing
A new metric standards book aims to help firms compete in a global market. The book, Metric Standards for Worldwide Manufacturing 2007, Electronic 7th...
Machined plastic parts in a day? Is that possible?
Rapid-prototyping firm First Cut Prototype, Maple Plain, Minn., (firstcut.com) says if you send in a solid model of a needed part, it will machine up...
Don't cut that metal. Vaporize it!
According to Norman Noble Inc., in Highland Hts., Ohio, (nnoble.com) EDM vaporizes material instead of cutting it, so the process suits materials with...
Cutting tools for medical implants
Recent ISO-9000-certified cutting tools that target medical-implant manufacturing include those for turning, grooving, parting, threading, milling, and...
Solectron manufacturing for CSA Medical
After eight years of invention, testing, product development and clinical trials, CSA Medical's CryoSpray Ablation system is rolling off an assembly line...
How to cut eccentric parts at high speeds
Until recently, it was unfeasible to machine precision, complex parts at high spindle speeds. Spindle vibration would cause rough part surfaces and short...
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