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

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.

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

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

Keys to Successful Design for Manufacturability
A product’s manufacturability is influenced by the materials used, requested tolerances, part geometry, process control limitations, and more. A successful DFM process considers each of these factors from the start.

Clearing the Hurdles of Medical Device Prototyping
Medical device engineers are tasked with finding straightforward solutions for complex problems that can bring medical devices to market and enrich patients’ lives. However, material costs, functionality, and turnaround times can present mid-design and prototyping impediments to final components and products.

The Criticality of Process Validation
Process validation is a critical part of medical device manufacturing, but it often doesn’t get the attention it requires. This article explains why validation is imperative in medical device manufacturing, illuminates some regulatory changes currently underway, outlines the steps of creating validation proce

Case Study: Tekni-Plex Flow Wrap Structure Eliminates $250K in Manufacturing Costs
Problematic film was leaving residue on cutting blades causing significant financial impact to the operation

Case Study: Tekni-Plex Helps Companies Commercialize Swab Sticks for COVID-19 Testing Needs
Quick turnaround for form-fill-seal material, coupled with technical support from Tekni-Plex enabled first-time swab stick manufacturers to quickly ramp up production

Precision Ball Screws for Efficient Linear Motion
For a vast array of industrial applications including milling-machine tables, robotics, medical equipment and semiconductor manufacture, ball screws deliver extremely accurate and durable linear motion solutions. They provide very high rigidity, smooth and near-silent operation, accuracy grades from C0 to C7,

Maximizing Machine Efficiency with Linear Guides
For designers and engineers of industrial machines that employ linear motion functions, achieving high load capacities, high speed positioning accuracy, and a compact form factor is the holy grail. NH/NS-series linear guides from NSK achieve these outcomes while substantially extending service intervals, espe

Compact, Accurate Motion For Medical Equipment
Nowhere is the need for smooth, precise, repeatable and reliable linear motion more critical than with medical devices and equipment. With friction-free motion, high-accuracy positioning and high operating efficiencies, the NSK Motorized Ball Screw Actuator offers considerable advantages versus conventional s

Second Evaluation of the Wear Duration of Acrylic Wearable Device Adhesives on Healthy Human Volunteers

DISINFECTION VALIDATION: How to Classify and Validate Your Medical Device Disinfection Process
Medical device reprocessing, and the scientific validation of reprocessing instructions, are critical steps to ensuring devices are safe and effective for patient use. The pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus responsible for COVID-19, as well as past infec

Learn How to Lower The Surface Friction of Medical Devices Using Biocompatible Surface Modifying Additives
You can optimize medical device performance, safety, and biocompatibility with surface modification. For many applications, surfaces are often modified to impart anti-thrombogenic, antimicrobial, anti-fouling or lubricious properties. However, Hydrophilic or Hydrophobic coatings can be associated with chal

Aligning Product Development Teams and a Contract Manufacturer: Five Issues to Consider
While the production aspect of the electronics contract manufacturing model is fairly uniform across the industry, the engineering support aspect can vary widely. And while some assume contract manufacturer size influences its engineering resource strength, that isn’t always the case. At EDM, an electroni

The EMS Partnership: Four Areas to Audit
The term, “partnership” gets bandied about in electronics contract manufacturing relationships a lot. Both electronics manufacturing services (EMS) providers and their original equipment manufacturer (OEM) customers have differing views. The complexity of the EMS relationship is what sets it apart in the