The Benefits of Injection Molded Plastics in an EV/AV World
Over the years, plastic has developed into one of the most critical materials in modern manufacturing. The advancements in plastic injection molding technology have made the entire design and manufacturing process faster, more predictable and precise, thus enhancing the functionality and application capabilit

Case Study - Developing a Custom Material for Trocar Seal Surgical Applications
New custom materials help lead to the latest advances in minimally invasive surgery.

Has Your Contract Manufacturer Laid the Groundwork for A Strong Quality Culture?
The largest potential cost in medical device manufacturing isn’t labor rate or cost of material. Instead, it is the cost of bad quality. Brand reputation depends on a medical device manufacturer’s ability to put superior quality product where it is promised, when it is promised. Any failure that keeps that pr

How Device Companies Can Create End-to-End Connectivity for In-hospital Equipment
This paper will detail how to create a secure, scalable connectivity ecosystem based around connected medical equipment in the hospital environment.

Unlocking Medtech’s Future Potential with Connected Devices and Services
With the global market for connected medical devices expected to reach $188 billion by 2024, connectivity is top of mind for leading medtech companies. Navigating the complex environment of connected devices can be challenging, with external and internal factors to consider. Our

Porous Titianium Plasma: A New Generation of Porous Titanium Coating on Metallic Substrate for Medical Devices
This study reports the experimental characterization of the topography, microstructure and mechanical strength of the TPS - Porous coating. These results provide quantitative guides for new designs of orthopedic implants, for which such coating may be used to enhance the long-term anchorage of the implants to

Four Strategies for Mitigating Supply Chain Disruption
In a perfect world, component suppliers increase production as demand increases. In the real world, component supply and demand is a delicate equation that can become imbalanced for a number of reasons. In 2020, COVID-19 driven supply chain disruption was balanced by reductions in demand as global shutdow

Outsourcing Strategy: Are Some Regions A Better Fit for Your Project?
The COVID-19 pandemic has taught outsourcing teams that extended supply chains add vulnerability and that is driving shifts in outsourcing strategy. That said, there is no one size fits all solution for best outsourcing region. It is more a case of which region fits best for specific needs. This whitepape

Building Quality In: Four Ways Your Contract Manufacturer Should Be Eliminating Defect Opportunities
When a company outsources manufacturing, its electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider becomes an extension of its reputation as far as quality is concerned. Consequently, in selecting an EMS provider, it is important to evaluate potential supplier’s quality culture. An obvious focus is quality contro

Time to Onshore? Four Offshore Costs You Probably Aren't Considering
Most companies that outsource have projects with a variety of characteristics. Product maturity, labor content, variations in demand, annual volumes, regulatory environment and required supply chain competencies all influence regional build site strategy. In some cases, it makes the most sense to outsourc

Outsourcing and Efficiency: Understanding the Project Disciplines Outsourcing Can Drive Within Your Organization
One of the biggest benefits of outsourcing is that it frees up capital and resources by making it possible for an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to focus on core competencies and marketing. A good electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider doesn’t simply build products, they are experts at produ

Does Your Contract Manufacturer Have a Quality Improvement Focus?
Every company in the electronics manufacturing services (EMS) industry talks about quality. But a point of differentiation among EMS providers is often the internal resources in place to ensure that quality issues are identified and addressed. SigmaTron International, an EMS provider with a global network

Are You Adequate Leveraging Your Contract Manufacturer’s Expertise?
A contract manufacturer’s expertise can be used to reduce costs, better support demand variations, improve quality and fill gaps with the outsourcing organization’s team or internal capabilities. When outsourcing teams integrate that expertise into their outsourcing strategy, it can significantly reduce total

Key Considerations for Selecting a Medical Pump
When it comes to selecting a pump for medical use, there is a lot to consider beyond pressure and flow rate requirements. This whitepaper explains critical factors that medical device designers must consider to ensure that the correct pump is chosen for every application.

Maximizing Employee Potential to Create a Lean, Quality-Focused Culture
A key concept of Lean manufacturing philosophy is differentiating between value-added and non value-added activity. Within that category is the concept of necessary non value-added activity or activities that are necessary, but don’t add value to the products being built. Supervision is considered a neces

Creating a Culture Focused on Cost Reduction: Burton Industries’ Approach
There is no question that supply chain costs are increasing across the board in 2021. That said, electronics manufacturing services (EMS) providers who focus on working smarter can help balance out those increases. The team at Burton Industries has always had a culture focused on finding ways to reduce co

3D Printing & Injection Molding: Same Team, Different Roles
These complementary processes can be adapted to serve countless prototyping and full-production demands, boosting medtechs’ bottom lines and speeding time to market.

3D Printing & Injection Molding: A Cost Comparison Analysis
When determining which technique to use at different points in the product development process, a cost comparison analysis can be helpful to provide a sense of when to start thinking about 3D Printing or Injection Molding for your prototypes or production run.

Case Study - New Material Formulation for Point-of-Care Diagnostics
Rapid response to urgent COVID-19 patient needs with a seal that meets strict chemical and mechanical requirements.

Medical Device Security: Achieving Regulatory Approval
Regulators around the world are taking a larger and larger role in requiring and verifying that devices are as secure as possible both before and after release. In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published guidance that outlines requirements for medical devices that mandate a num

Mitigating Design Risks - Considerations for Medical Device Development and Manufacture
Medical original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are at the forefront of the global effort to empower consumers and their physicians to be more proactive in diagnosing the risk or onset of chronic disease to improve treatment outcomes and lower costs. This effort represents nothing less than the transformation

HENIAPORE™-K VPS-TITANIUM COATING ON PEEK SUBSTRATE FOR MEDICAL DEVICES
Porous titanium coatings onto polymers are of great interest to medical industries. A vacuum plasma spray (VPS) process has been developed to coat PEEK with a micro porous biomimetic titanium coating. This study reports the experimental characterization of the topography and microstructure and of the mechanic

Coating Technologies Review: How Orthopedic Implants Get Coated
Orchid Orthopedic Solutions focuses on both bone on-growth coatings and bone in-growth coatings with expertise in sintered coatings, spherical, asymmetric and porous foam used in on-growth coatings. In-growth coatings are usually done with plasma spray, using titanium hydroxyapatite, or titanium on PEEK (poly

Case Study - Medical Device Sealing Solutions
What Designers and Manufacturers Need To Know, Avoid And Consider When Planning Seals In A Device

The Complete Guide to Plastic Injection Molding
Plastic injection molding is a manufacturing process to produce plastic components or devices ranging from hundreds to millions of parts at a time.  The guide provides information, resources, and tools to understand the elements of injection molding so you can move from the design phase to a full pro

The Goldilocks Problem - Cell Selection for Emerging Applications
When designing a battery pack for a new device, a common question that engineers may find themselves asking is "Which is the best cell to use for my application?" When choosing the cell for a battery, an engineer must decide what variables are most important to the final application of the battery and mu

Driving Market Advantage: Six Critical Contract Manufacturer Skillsets
Optimizing the outsourcing equation involves far more than simply finding a company to manufacture products in an area with low cost wages. A skilled contract manufacturer is expert at product commercialization: eliminating cost and inefficiency throughout design and development phase, offering innovative

Speed and Scalability: The Advantages of Outsourcing to a Vertically Integrated Contract Manufacturer
If there is one thing that is predictable in today’s medical device market, it is lack of predictability. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed demand for established products, created demand for new products and driven the need for re-evaluating optimum sourcing strategies. One thing that hasn’t changed are th

Navigating Materials Constraints: Burton Industries’ Formula for Minimizing Supply Chain-Related Disruptions
What is significant about the 2021 is the number of constraint drivers likely to be present during the year. Pent-up consumer demand is driving spikes in products across multiple sectors that were in short supply in 2020 due to the pandemic. The automotive sector is seeing both pent-up demand across all mo

Automation: The Future of Medical Device Manufacturing
In a perfect world, medical devices would be manufactured in a process with zero errors. Today, customers’ expectations for zero defects are higher than they have ever been and medical device manufacturers are looking for error-reducing solutions. Automation offers great promise. While automation is frequentl