Design and scale shaped liquid tight bags without the risks.
Who says a soft, flexible, liquid tight medical bag with shapes and fitments must be made of PVC? Actually, many packaging experts out there today will tell you that. The truth is, it’s outdated thinking. With the right handling capabilities and expertise, polyolefins can deliver all the performance

Consultancy vs Contract Designer

Flexible Materials Converting and Adhesive Expertise in Surgical and Ostomy Applications
...the design of a medical device can require the materials and adhesive expertise of a flexible converter.

Wired vs. Wireless Foot Controls
Wired foot controls have been around for decades. Linemaster created its first wired foot switch in the 1950’s and have been adapting to customer requirements and incorporating technological advances ever since. To date, using copper conductors (ph

Considerations for Medical Grade Foot Controls
This white paper discusses the key features to consider when designing a medical grade foot control. We share our 65+ years of foot control knowledge with our users and guide them to the perfect design to compliment their equipment.

Specifying Miniature Solenoid Valves for Portable Life Science Devices
Miniature solenoid valves are critical components in portable life science equipment. Beyond the necessary long service life, medical, analytical, and point-of-care devices often require pneumatic systems with high flow rates, compact footprints, and low power consumption. Specifying solenoid valves to meet s

Electrically Conductive Silicone in Medical Devices
Silicone rubber has many physical properties which make it an attractive material for medical applications: excellent biocompatibility, flexibility, high chemical resistance, stability over a wide temperature range, and ease of manufacturing.

Case Study: Parker Hannifin Brings Robotic Exoskeleton to Life with Digital Manufacturing
Design analysis paired with quick-turn molding helped motion and control tech leader accelerate development

Adhesives for Gentle Removal from Skin
A novel medical pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) and tape has been developed to reduce pain upon removal from variety of skin types. The new technology provides a solution to medical device manufacturers who require PSA tape to hold the medical device securely in place, while being able to remove it gentl

Company Profile
Innovize offers custom development and manufacturing solutions – including converting, contract manufacturing and packaging – for components or finished medical devices.

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

Comparing Prototype Techniques
Prototyping can improve the product development life cycle. Designers must understand different prototyping methods for mechanical and industrial design. 

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 manufa

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 com

Repairing the Heart Without Opening the Body
Richard Gribbons, Global Business Unit Manager for Structural Heart & EP at Creganna Medical; and Maura Leahy, Marketing Manager at Creganna Medical, discuss recent advancements in heart surgery and how we can repair the heart without opening the body. 

AMT Pte Ltd
AMT Pte Ltd is a Contract Manufacturer that offer turnkey solutions for the MedTech industry. With more than 27 years of experience, we offer services from concept to manufacturing through our three business units namely AMTMIM, AMT3D and AMTMedical. We are ISO 9001, 13485 and 11135 certified and adhere to t

Catheter Transfer Case Study
Cardiac catheters are used for both diagnostic and interventional purposes. During diagnostic procedures, catheters monitor blood flow and pressure within the heart, as well as provide a conduit to deliver radiopaque media that enables visualization of vascular system.

What you need to know before selecting high tech adhesives
Discussion of the proper selection process to determine the most appropriate adhesive.

Sensor Solutions for Minimally Invasive Surgery
Haptic Feedback or Haptics refers to sensing and manipulation throughtouch. Such tactile technology adds an edge to the use of the medical capital equipment, allowing the surgeon to get a great feel of the end effector of the instruments inside the body. Utilizing a load cell and torque sensor based solu

How to Select Illumination (Lighting) Systems for Stereo Microscopes
Free whitepaper focusing on how to choose illumination systems that produce the best imaging results. The illumination used for microscopic observation has a very important effect on the final image quality. Choosing the illumination to achieve the best results depends upon the type of sample and i

Design for manufacturing breakthroughs: Producing Innovative Micro Medical Devices
Everyone wants to be innovative, to find the next big idea in their field. Innovation doesn’t strike like a lightning bolt out of the blue. It takes collaboration and a deliberate search process.

http://isomicro.com/whitepaper/
Micro-sized components are often the key enabling elements of Class II or Class III medical devices and drug delivery devices, and because of their size, they often require micron-level tolerances. With 30 years’ experience in micro injection molding, Donna Bibber of Isometric Micro Molding has developed a be

Features, Benefits and Applications of ecoGenesis RF Welding Technology
This Paper: Presents an overview of ecoGenesis, Genesis Plastics Welding’s proprietary RF technology, including capabilities and applications Offers third-party validation of the technology Offfers third-party identification and support for end-use applications across many

Large & Thin Dies
New die sorting techniques target large, low-thickness die in microelectronics assembly

Improve Your Design Cycle
Manufacturing processes are critical to part outcome and getting to market faster. It is important to consider key factors that will assist in improving upon your overall efficiency and production timing. Learn how to take advantage of designing features into your part Utilize mol

Advanced Metrology Solutions Offer Advantages to Medical Manufacturers
Know Your Options When Selecting a Metrology System to QC Medical parts

Three Things Medical Device Designers Need to Know About UVC LEDs
Though relatively new compared to other UVC technologies, UVC LEDs offer medical equipment designers an exciting new way to develop hand-held or portable disinfection devices to combat HAIs in a wide range of healthcare applications. Importantly, the design and operating flexibility of UVC LEDs means that the

Disinfecting Microbes with Crystal IS Klaran UVC LEDs
Established data-based evidence about Klaran’s performance for disinfection determined by Pathogen testing on various microbes.

Design for Manufacturability
No matter what you’re designing, it’s important to involve your contract manufacturer’s (CM) engineering team early in the process. The earlier you bring in your CM, the more time and money you can save on your project.

Case Study 569
Currier Plastics was asked to develop a new Injection Stretch Blow Molding (ISBM) Jar that could be used in the medical/healthcare market. The Jar could be subjected to 4,500 RPM of centrifugal forces. A study is necessary to determine proper material, wall thickness, geometry and base push up characteristics