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Compromise or Die—Achieving the optimum part design
5/4/2012
ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT PART DESIGN FIRE DRILLS…( Smokey the Part designer?) .Fixing the tool and parts after they are completed may be fun and exciting, but it sure is expensive. If you understand the constant...
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Sphinx Tools Ltd. Brochure
5/3/2012
Sphinx Tools Ltd. sets standards for optimum quality and security.
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The Case for Upgrading Existing HPLC Assays to UPLC
4/16/2012
UPLC, Ultra Pressure Liquid Chromatography, is the successor technology to HPLC techniques and assays that have been widely used since the 1970s. UPLC has emerged from the laboratory over the past few years and moved to...
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Learn how GW Plastics Re-Designed, Re-Engineered and Re-Tooled an Intricate Breast Biopsy Device.
4/16/2012
There’s no substitute for hard work and ingenuity in the plastics business. But when it comes to simultaneously innovating both product and process for the medical industry, it takes a powerful combination of...
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Learn how GW Plastics Perfected the Design and Production of a Tissue Marker Device
4/16/2012
When a leading medical device company came to GW Plastics with an existing project in need of improvement, GW proved to be just the partner they needed to bring their product to market. With initial drawings for a...
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Why the Right FEP Heat Shrink Tubing Can Save You Time and Money in Catheter Manufacturing
4/11/2012
The manufacture of reflow catheters is a surprisingly sophisticated process, with much riding on the resultant product.
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Product Design for the Next Billion
Stratos Product Development LLC
4/6/2012
Your next billion customers are going to be different. Their culture, value perceptions, relative economic mobility, general thriftiness, life outlook and living conditions are all going to be unlike today’s middle and...
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Are You Practicing Luckovation?
Stratos Product Development LLC
4/6/2012
Is the success of your innovation projects based on luck? Would you rather your product development team be lucky or good?* Being lucky in the things you can’t control is a wonderful thing. But, relying on luck for the...
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How Risk Management Tools can Improve Product Quality in Today’s Rapid Lifecycles
4/6/2012
With the product lifecycle moving so fast, many organizations may ask the question, "how can we effectively measure quality?" What can an organization do to keep up with this new pace of business while ensuring the...
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Advantages of Membrane Switches in the Medical Marketplace
4/4/2012
With the large number of user interface options available today, it is easy to forget why the membrane switch is an excellent choice for medical instrumentation. The basic advantages are still the same as they were two...
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The Rules of X-Ray Micro CT (and When to Break Them)
4/4/2012
Offer the term “metrology equipment” to a group of industrial or manufacturing engineers in a word-association test and it’s highly likely CMM (coordinate measuring machine) would be the response. Yet, unlike a probe-...
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How to Overcome Stacked Tolerances
4/2/2012
For medical device designers and manufacturers, process consistency is king. The ability to get consistent, reproducible results from the performance of a device is essential to product approvals with the FDA and to the...
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Corrosion Resistance Electropolishing vs Passivation
3/27/2012
Electropolishing to improve corrosion protection.
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7 Essentials for Successful Medical Package Design
3/26/2012
Individuals responsible for medical packaging system design and validation are required to provide a safe and effective packaging system that can deliver the enclosed product to the end-user without incurring defect or...
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Novel Dual Functional Antimicrobial Coating
3/26/2012
BioInteractions has developed the dual functional Avert™ Surface Active Antimicrobial Coating, specifically designed to reduce the incidence of device related infections.
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How MedPlast Became A Multi-Shot Specialist
3/23/2012
It all started in his mother’s one-car garage. Robert Piccoli, then a journeyman toolmaker, and a partner launched a moldmaking business in 1969 called Dual Machine Tool.
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Medplast pushes medical molding to new heights
3/23/2012
Creating a new paradigm for medical molding while creating a new company out of several existing businesses is a challenge only those with industry expertise can take on. After one year, MedPlast is well on its way to...
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Why Hard Materials vs. Metals?
3/22/2012
At Insaco, we specialize in hard materials such as sapphire, ceramic, aluminum nitride, boron carbide, silicon nitride, and zirconia, to name just a few. The reason we specialize in these materials rather than in metals...
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Making the Grade
3/22/2012
When designing, using, or ordering products for use in a hospital/ medical setting, some electrical plugs and/or sockets may need to meet a different set of requirements to ensure safety to the user and to the patient....
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Bringing It Home
3/22/2012
Successful Partnership shifts Video Equipment Manufacturing Back to the U. S.
