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Trends In Medical Device Contract Manufacturing — What Medtech OEMs Need To Know

The global medical device outsourcing market, worth an estimated $52B in 2019, is projected to grow at an 11.4 percent CAGR through 2025, outperforming overall medical device industry growth. Consequently, the organizational, business, and competency models of outsourcing organizations, as well as the types of client-vendor engagement, are evolving to define novel paradigms.

How To Drive Powerful CAPAs With Lean Six Sigma
Corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs) are an important and integral part of any quality system for a life sciences company. And yet, strangely, CAPAs rank among the top reasons why companies get 483s and warning letters from the FDA. This article explains how Lean Six Sigma tools and techniques can be applied to improve the CAPA process.
Implications Of COVID-19: EU MDR Implementation Update
Learn how the EU 2020/561 Article 59 update, progress on guidance documents, formation of Expert Panels, and more affect your company.
Paclitaxel-Coated Medical Device Markets Recovering After Difficult Year
Despite recent positive evidence validating the use of paclitaxel in the peripheries, sales of devices that incorporate paclitaxel remain low. However, a turnaround appears to be on the horizon.

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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS

Improving Health Outcomes With Personalized Apps
Advances in sensors, smartphones, communications, and analytics give developers new tools to build creative and powerful applications that promise to improve health outcomes and reduce healthcare costs.

Micro-MIM Succeeds At Making Precise Micro Metal Parts

As component sizes for medical devices shrink to micron size, conventional machining may not be the most efficient or consistent method for manufacturing. Learn why Micro-MIM is preferred for components with tight tolerances at high volumes.

Plan For Success With Sustaining Engineering In Medical Device Development And Manufacturing

Sustaining engineering enables the developer to plan ahead, getting the development and design of the device done right the first time, and smoothing the transition to manufacturing. KMC's executive director of engineering, Scott Leon, weighs in on the subject.

How To Uncover The Hidden Value Of Culture In Supplier Selection

The business pain of switching suppliers, both in terms of costs and revalidation time, heightens the importance of making the right decision the first time.

Taking Micromolding To the Next Level

Micromolding requires a high level of intimacy and attention to detail to be successful over the long run, so it’s important to work with micromolder with the capability, scalability, and sustainability to get a product from the design stage all the way to high-quality mass production.

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SOLUTIONS

Medical Micromolding

The margin for error when it comes to critical components for medical device manufacturing is zero. That's why Accumold ensures robust production processes, extremely tight requirements, and part-to-part consistency.

SCHOTT® Luminous Diffusers For More Effective Light-Based Therapies

SCHOTT offers a series of high-performance glass-based diffusers designed to radiate laser light extremely homogeneously and efficiently (more than 80%) for more effective medical treatments. They are offered with various diffuser geometries, including cylindrical, front emitting, spherical, and other special shapes.

Caplugs Custom Medical Molding

Caplugs has been a global leader in plastic molding with six different molding processes and thousands of material options. The in-house team of engineers works with customers throughout their comprehensive process to design a unique solution process from creating concepts and rapid prototyping to packaging and inventory management.

MiniSlide™ Motorized With Hybrid Stepper Actuator

AMETEK offers the MiniSlide™ motorized with a size 8 hybrid stepper actuator motor ideally suited for use in small lab and automation equipment. With a compact size and stable platform, this motorized slide is easy to integrate and reduces the design efforts for engineers.

Detergent 8: Low-Foaming Ion-Free Detergent

Detergent 8 is concentrated to save you money, biodegradable, and readily disposable. Its penetrating wetting power saves you time. It’s free rinsing to give you reliable results and no interfering residues.

Diagnostic Products Manufacturing

Carclo Technical Plastics provides contract manufacturing, injection molding, packaging, and other related contract services including microfluidics, optics, filters, etc. for the diagnostics and single use laboratory markets.

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FEATURED SUPPLIERS

Alconox, Inc.

With more than 60 years of experience in formulation of quality aqueous cleaners, Alconox Inc. understands the cleaning needs of the medical device manufacturing industry including stringent FDA regulations and GMP compliance.

PTI - Packaging Technologies & Inspection, Inspection Technologies

PTI Packaging and Inspection Systems

Packaging Technologies & Inspection (PTI) is a leading manufacturer of inspection technologies for the pharmaceutical industry that are non-destructive, non-invasive and require no sample preparation.

MED DEVICE ONLINE CONTENT COLLECTIONS

This ebook is a collection of articles from the Data Integrity In The Life Sciences series, the purpose of which is to highlight contemporary insights and relationships to key quality systems in order to elevate the most important topics and advance improvements in the collective quality culture.

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