CYLINDRAFlow™ Manifolds: Simplifying Processing Applications
Nordson MEDICAL has announced a new manifold that makes assembly and operation simpler compared to products currently used in the industry.

Polymer Solution Casting: Enhanced Performance from a Single-Piece Device
Nordson MEDICAL is the world's leading contract manufacturer of cardiopulmonary vascular cannulae, catheters, and specialized medical tubing for a wide range of clinical applications. The key is our Avalon polymer solution casting technology, which allows us to design and manufacture custom tubing with fea...

Micro-MIM Succeeds At Making Precise Micro Metal Parts
Micro-metal injection molding (micro-MIM) is becoming a go-to process for micro metal parts. Due to technological advances, micro- MIM has become a highly efficient method for manufacturing micro parts with tight tolerances at high volumes.

How To Conquer The Challenges Of Micro-Manufacturing
Manufacturing medical device parts and features in the micro range is not as simple as miniaturizing macro processes. New tools, equipment, processes, and technologies are rapidly emerging to meet the unique needs at the micro size. As the industry overcomes the challenges of producing ever smaller devices...

How To Avoid Compliance & Timeline Risks When Selecting A Medical Device Supplier
Considering the severe consequences of noncompliance, it’s hard to imagine anything more important. First and foremost, the health and well-being of patients is at risk. A product intended to improve health must be safe, reliable, and accurate. From a business standpoint, noncompliance can result in costly...

Successful Medical Device Cleaning Validations: What You Need to Know
Validating cleaning instructions for a tray of reusable orthopedic devices is an important milestone on the path to obtaining FDA clearance for those devices. Although the process of validation can seem daunting at first, medical device manufacturers seeking to successfully navigate this process can do so ...

Single Use & Newly Manufactured Device Cleaning Validations
Performing a cleaning validation during the initial phase of a device’s lifecycle aids manufacturers in complying with current good manufacturing practices (CGMP) and quality system (QS) regulation as set forth by FDA for medical device manufacturers. The data gathered during cleaning validations helps man...

How Chemical Characterization Can Supplement & Support Biocompatibility Testing
Download this whitepaper to examine the various ways in which chemical characterization can augment and refine the biocompatibility testing process. Using analytical chemistry and data from the compound libraries to assess the finished device can yield more specific data about these extractable ...

Fact or Fiction: Debunking the 1 lb. standard for seal strength testing…
• Challenges in the early 90’s with 1.0 lb. minimum for pouches • “How do you validate to a 1.0 lb. minimum using 90° unsupported peel test method for uncoated pouches?” • The answers were that you can’t, unless you use the 180° supported test method. • Over 25 years, people are still asking the ...

Multiconductor Compatibility with Steam and Gas Plasma Sterilization
New England Wire Technologies Corporation has defined the sterilization compatibility of its proprietary jacket compounds used on ultra-flexible medical electronics cables. Two specialty silicone rubber compounds, NF11 and NF04, were evaluated for compatibility in both autoclave and the increasingly common...

Materials Selection for Medical Electronics
Insulating and jacketing material options for wire and cable are innumerable, even if the field is narrowed to those with some qualification for use in medical electronics. Factors that contribute to materials selection decisions include biocompatibility, disinfection and sterilization compatibility, revis...

Designing for Mechanical and Signal Integrity in Handheld Medical Treatment Applications
Handheld medical devices must perform across a wide range of device specifications and end-user environmental conditions. Mechanical and signal integrity of cable components is especially important for high-level performance, accuracy, durability, longevity, and user satisfaction. Medical cables undergo ex...

Hydrophobic vs. Hydrophilic Coatings
Understanding the advantages, characteristics, and functions of a hydrophobic coating vs. a hydrophilic coating allows design engineers to make the right choice for their applications. “Hydrophobic” and “hydrophilic” are easy to get confused with one another and it is important to learn the origins of thes...

The Hidden Costs of Multiple-Vendor Contract Manufacturing
Review any directory of medical device outsourcing resources and you’ll see an assortment of offerings and services: design and engineering, components, assembly, legal, regulatory, sterilization and many more. You can find virtually any company to handle any part of the medical device manufacturing process.

Precision Manufacturing in the Medical Device Industry
The English (North America) dictionary definition of the word “precision” is accuracy (noun) or relating to accuracy (adjective). You will find the word “precision” takes on all the synonyms of the word “accuracy” in the manufacturing world. This rings especially true in the medical device industry.

Material Selection for a Plastic Injection Molded Product
Material selection is critical to all aspects of the finished product. When deciding upon the right resin for the product or component, several factors must be considered. Along with material selection, there are three other areas that are considered during the project evaluation: part design, mold design ...

Designing a Plastic Part
Plastic Technology: Essential Guidelines to Ensure a Quality End Product

MD+DI Salary Survey 2012
Which positions and fields are at the top of the mountain in the device industry? Find out which jobs have the best pay, the best opportunities for advancement, and the best chances for job satisfaction. These and other employment trends can be found in MD+DI's survey results and related coverage.

Beyond Trade-offs: How Medical Device Manufacturers can Balance Innovation, Quality and Compliance While Improving Profit
The medical device industry has always depended on product innovation to drive growth. Industry is poised for a sustained period of extreme growth fueled by a level of innovation that is scheduled to accelerate. Most companies are growing. Nearly all are innovating at an increasing pace. The common challen...

Hospital Executive Report, Part 2
2012 began with the rocky start predicted for the US hospital industry, but hospital executives are optimistic regarding the prospects for the rest of the year. Sample Data from this Report: • Half of the 100 executives indicated that the revenues and profits for their facility/system fell short of their ...

What is Micro-Molding?
There seems to be a lot of talk these days about micro-molding. This reflects the increased interest from designers and manufacturers in producing and procuring high precision, micro-featured plastic parts. The result has been countless articles in the trade magazines addressing this new niche in the injec...

The Prototyping Challenges with Micro Molding: A Comparative Study of Prototyping Methods for Micro Molding Applications
The goal of this paper is to discuss the various methods, challenges and variables for prototyping micro-sized and/or micro-featured plastic parts. It is also important to recognize that every part design is different requiring different features, tolerances, materials, etc. Through this discussion you mig...

Mechanically Driven Diaphragm Pumps for Use with Gases
Whether in medical technology, environmental protection/analysis, in the laboratory or process engineering, many applications are today unthinkable without the use of mechanically driven diaphragm pumps for gases. Their particular properties such as oil-free, maintenance-free and uncontaminated operation m...