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• Medical Device Design: The Benefits Of Partnering Early With An Expert Textile Supplier

  Ideally, device engineers should partner with a textile component supplier as soon as possible during the earliest stages of product development. But how can a device manufacturer pinpoint the right textile partner?

• Streamline Medical Device Design By Engaging Early With An Expert Textile Component Supplier

  Different considerations often apply to raw material selection, prototyping, and scale-up, and medical device manufacturers can be at a loss for where to start.

• Choosing Wisely: Optimizing Medical Textiles To Enhance Cardiovascular Devices

  New technologies and fabric modifications must be developed to meet both well-understood and emerging needs in the cardiovascular device space.

• Textile-Engineered Tissue Scaffolds Offer Advances In Hollow Organ Regenerations

  Biomedical textile engineering affords critical innovations in scaffold design, particularly where structural repeatability, spatial geometry, and engineering strength support the cellular processes in a consistent fashion. These factors illustrate the important impact that the convergence of a traditional installed base of engineering techniques–combined with new materials—offer for successful advances in regenerative medicine.

• Implantable Fabrics Revolutionize Neurovascular Devices

  In the neurovascular device segment, development is focused on minute, precision devices delivered via micro-catheters. The overarching challenge is to create components that maximize performance within a minimal deliverable profile. That’s where biomedical textiles come in.

• Biomedical Textiles Advance Development Of Orthopedic Implants

  Medical device manufacturers are expanding their portfolios with biologically based products for the repair of musculoskeletal defects ranging from bone grafting and fusion, motion-preserving spinal repair, to cartilage repair and ligament and tendon tears. 

• Function And Form: Designing Implantable Medical Textiles For Today's Heart Valves And Beyond

  Learn how fabrics can be used in heart valves now and in the future, and explore design considerations during product development.

• Global Medical Device Company (Orthopedics) Case Study

  In this case study, Secant Group creates braided and woven fabrics for a textile-based component in a minimally invasive orthopedic device.

• Neurovascular Device Case Study

  Secant Group’s textile braiding and engineering expertise accelerates prototyping process for new neurovascular device in this case study. 

• Cardiovascular Device Manufacturer Avoids Product Shortage With Woven Textile Component Solution

  Medical textile supplier successfully reverse-engineers a woven textile component based on the original sample to help medical equipment manufacturer avoid sales disruption.

• Sketch To Scale: The Importance Of Relationship-Building At The Prototyping Stage

  We review what items a device manufacturer and supplier should align on and what essential assets a manufacturer should look for in a supplier team.

• Ensuring Business Continuity: The Fundamental Components Of A Secure Supply Chain

  This article discusses best practices on how medical component suppliers can mitigate risks for critical raw materials, change management, operational consistency, and manufacturing assets.