Pulse Technologies, Inc. Company Profile

Who We Are

Pulse Technologies is an advanced innovation, contract manufacturing and engineering services company focused on implantable medical device components and assemblies. We create innovative materials, technologies and processes that advance performance, improve competitive advantage and boost profitability. We also offer robust outsourced component and sub-assembly manufacturing solutions to leading medical device makers, with a special emphasis on design engineering to enhance manufacturability.

Innovation and collaboration are at the core of everything we do. In fact, we’ve worked with clients to develop completely new technologies that improve the performance of their medical devices. As problem solvers, we’ll collaborate and innovate to answer your toughest challenges, anticipate your future needs—and stop at nothing to create your competitive edge.

Major Markets

• Cardiac
• Vascular
• Orthopedic
• Spinal and extremity
• Neurostimulation
• Cochlear
• Ophthalmic
• Minimally-invasive

Services Offered

We specialize in CNC micro-machining and assembly, scratch-free surface finishes, laser surface restructuring, biorhythm coatings, custom alloy development—and your next breakthrough. Think of it as ideas + execution: the marriage of groundbreaking materials, technologies and processes with full capabilities for outsourced component manufacturing and assembly, from prototype to production.

Our advanced innovation team focuses on what’s next in the industry, whether it’s a lighter material, a smoother surface, or a process that can be made automated and repeatable. Some of our recent efforts include scratch-free surface finishes, a custom alloy replacement for platinum and Pulse Advanced Coating Technology (PACT®) for PVD coating.

Our contract manufacturing capabilities include:

• 4 axis laser machining
• 4 axis laser welding
• Laser texturing (a unique technique to improve bonding strength between metal and plastic tubing)
• Titanium anodizing
• PVD coating
• Precision finishing and marking (including micro-blasting, deburring, tumbling, electropolishing and passivation, part lot marking and serialization)
• Electrical discharge machining (EDM)
• Milling
• Swiss screw machining

Our purpose-built facility in Quakertown, PA features an expandable 70,000 square feet (8,000 square meters). It includes a state-of-the-art metallurgy and metrology lab with a scanning electron microscope and energy dispersive spectroscopy for research and development as well as testing and troubleshooting. We also have an environmentally controlled clean room. Our lean manufacturing cells are optimized for high-speed production. 

Quality Certifications

Quality is built into everything we do—with engineering designed to support it, employees expected to uphold it and equipment to measure and test it. Our commitment to quality includes real time statistical process control on every machine; dock to stock and Kanban consignment for a streamlined supply chain; a full suite of metrology gauges, tools, fixtures and equipment; and continual review of every process, validated against best practices and shared with every partner.

Our qualifications include:

• ISO 9001:2015 Certified
• AS9100D (based on and including ISO 9001:2015)
• EN ISO 13485:2016