Tech Spotlight: Micromolding
When small is not enough A medical-device company required a component with a tight tolerance; it turned to Phillips Plastics Corp. The component was...
Cutting costs through lean design is critical
Medical device manufacturers are facing the challenges of cutting costs without the flexibility of significant redesign efforts. That is, by the time...
Forum offers DFMA diversity and best practices
The 24th annual Forum on DFMA (Design for Manufacture and Assembly), June 6-9, Providence-Warwick, RI, will present timely topics by a diverse group of manufacturers and organizations. Among the topics and companies...
Lean podcasts
Results from last month’s www.medicaldesign.com Reader Poll question showed an interest in lean manufacturing tools and methods by readers of this newsletter as reported in the April 30 Medical Edge...
Dude, Rapid 2009 ‘rocks’
Eric Clapton was part of this year’s Rapid 2009, or at least his Grammy-winning “Layla” was. During one of the opening sessions, Boris Fritz, founder and past chairman of the Society of Manufacturing Engineer’s Nanomanufacturing Technical Group, shared some of the latest nano-innovations...
Applying precision stamping to endoscopic-instrument shafts
Challenging manufacturing stereotypes brings with it risks and rewards. Our company understood this in the late 1990s when we set out to develop a proprietary...
Taking the trouble out of ink marking
The 781RC MicroMark ink spray system from EFD Inc., East Providence, RI, (efd-inc.com), can produce uniform round patterns and strips from 0.2 to 1.2...
Reader Poll: Lean is in
Last month’s online poll asked readers to indicate whether their companies are applying lean manufacturing tools and methods...
High-accuracy material winding
The winding of vascular grafting material must be highly controlled to ensure the material’s correct functioning after surgery...
Surface treatments for wettability and stickability
Advanced surface treatment techniques such as air plasma, flame plasma, and chemical plasma discharges are playing key roles in the design and development...
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