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Designing for Moldability Volume 2: Undercuts and Through-Holes
7/25/2012
Houses in Monopoly™ land have no doors or windows. Maybe the tiny people who live there spend a lot of time indoors, or perhaps they’ve perfected teleportation. More likely, it’s because doorless windowless plastic...
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Design Tips for Rapid Injection Molding Volume 8
7/25/2012
Let’s face it; a gate is a necessary evil, a break in the otherwise continuous surface of an injection mold. While its vestiges are typically removed after molding, either automatically or manually, it leaves its “...
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Contamination Beward: Cleaning 101 for Fiber Optics
7/24/2012
Grasping a few basic cleaning techniques can also save you time and money.
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Coated Stent Delivery of DNA (plasmids) - rabbit clinical
Coatings2Go LLC/Surface Solutions Laboratories, Inc.
7/23/2012
Metallic stents coated with a polyurethane emulsion containing plasmid DNA were implanted in rabbit iliac arteries to evaluate transgene delivery and expression in the vessel wall. The expression of the plasmid-encoded...
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Focus on: PTFE
7/23/2012
PTFE was the first of the family to be discovered and in some property areas still remains the most outstanding of the family. The development of the melt processable fluoropolymers required a move away from the pure...
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Selecting a Laboratory for Pharmaceutical Stability Testing
7/17/2012
Stability testing is an essential component during the multi-phase drug development process for small and large molecule API's and small and large molecule drug products. This whitepaper discusses the critical aspects...
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Beyond Trade-offs: How Medical Device Manufacturers can Balance Innovation, Quality and Compliance While Improving Profit
MDDI - Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry News
7/16/2012
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...
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Adhesives for the Assembly of Hard-to-Bond Plastics
7/12/2012
Many modern plastics used in a variety of industries are formulated specifically for their resistance to harsh chemical and environmental conditions. As a result, these substrates also tend to be difficult to chemically...
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Harnessing Experience for Efficient Medical Device Product Development
7/2/2012
Device development is complicated by the need to work within a regulated environment which requires well defined processes and significant testing to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of the device. An experienced...
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Hospital Executive Report, Part 2
MDDI - Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry News
6/27/2012
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...
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Custom or standard rubber part? 6 factors to consider
Vicone High Performance Rubber Inc.
6/27/2012
While standard silicone or other rubber products are more readily available than customized solutions, they may not always be cheaper or the best solution for your particular application. Deciding whether to go with a...
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Zen and the Art of Medical Device Development
6/21/2012
Actively Adapting Quality Philosophies to Speed the Project Lifecycle
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Get an Early Start on a Successful Packaging Solution
6/21/2012
The packaging system is a crucial component to getting a medical device to market on time. Time constraints with new projects can affect the packaging system and may prohibit a proper design. The earlier a manufacturer...
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Replaced Injection Molded Part Leads to Cost Savings
6/15/2012
Thermoformed Package Increases Cost Savings and Efficiency
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Treating Surfaces to Improve Ink Adhesion
6/5/2012
Surface preparation determines the success of ink transfer and the quality of the image. At Pad Printing we look at four critical parameters: 1) ink chemistry, 2) substrate quality, 3) surface treatment, and 4) ink...
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Foreign Companies Beware – The FDA is on the Warpath
6/5/2012
FDA compliance has been much more difficult to deal with.
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Technical Data on the RBM Surface Roughening Treatment
6/5/2012
The role of a roughened surface to aid in implant fixation has been well established. However, recent concern regarding embedded media from glass beading and grit blasting operations has prompted interest in developing...
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Comparison of Servo-Driven Ultrasonic Welder to Standard Pneumatic Ultrasonic Welder
Dukane - Intelligent Assembly Solutions
5/31/2012
Ultrasonic welding is one of the most widely used processes for bonding polymers, valued for its speed, flexibility, and low cost. Recently there has been a call for more controlled and consistent welding processes,...
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Use of Adhesives in the Medical Device Industry - How to Select the Right Adhesive for Your Application
3M Medical Tapes and Adhesives
5/31/2012
Over the past few decades, adhesives in one form or another have been replacing many other fastening systems in the assembly of medical devices. And for good reasons! Adhesives come in many different forms, structural,...
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Ten Quality Indicators for Selecting Metal Stamping Suppliers
Kenmode Precision Metal Stamping
5/25/2012
A Guide Designed Specifically for Medical Device Manufacturers
