Design & Development Case Studies & White Papers
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Keys To Successful Design For Manufacturability
6/3/2020
A product’s manufacturability is influenced by the materials used, requested tolerances, part geometry, process control limitations, and more. A successful DFM process considers each of these factors from the start.
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NovaPure® Components: A Proactive Approach To Reducing Particulate Risk
5/6/2020
A biotechnology company that manufactures injectable large molecules was seeking to evaluate elastomeric components that would help them to attain the highest quality standards for their manufacturing lines. The company took a proactive approach to meeting and exceeding regulatory guidelines concerning the cleanliness of their lifechanging medicines and were keen to learn how a supplier’s tight packaging specifications could help them with their approach.
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Medical Device Design & Manufacturing Challenges: 2020 And Beyond
3/9/2020
Medical device manufacturers and designers must overcome various challenges to succeed in an expanding global marketplace, challenged along the way by aspects of design, research, validation, and bringing their devices to a competitive market in a cost-effective manner.
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Turning To Integrated Driver Electronics For BLDCs
2/28/2020
Despite advantages, brushless DC motors (BLDCs) have presented their own challenges in terms of technology, design, and capabilities. Typically, complex and bulky cabling has been required between motor and amplifier to attach discrete logic components “outside” the motor frame. With the latest advances in driver electronics that now can be integrated directly into brushless motor designs, BLDCs are evolving rapidly to become faster, smaller, more versatile, more controllable and more cost-effective.
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Reasons For Turning To Slotless Technology
2/28/2020
Brushless motors have gained greater acceptance in industry for a wider range of applications previously dominated by brush commutated products. At the same time, manufacturers have further sought to challenge conventional wisdom by improving brushless motor design.
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Brush DC Motors Turning More Advanced
2/28/2020
Motor designs have incorporated new components in new ways to help extend motor life, and new or improved materials have been tapped to promote motor quality and output. Current and future brush commutated DC motors continue to move in highly advanced directions.
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Customization To Suppress Electromagnetic Interference In DC Motors
2/28/2020
A variety of active and passive approaches can be adopted to reduce electromagnetic interference (EMI) in systems that rely on precision motion control. The challenges are to maintain system integrity and DC motor performance without adding significant cost or weight to a subassembly.
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Cartridge Brush Design For DC Motors And Gearmotors
2/28/2020
The traditional method for mounting copper or silver graphite brushes in brush commutated DC motor and gearmotor assemblies has been to solder the brushes onto standard cantilever springs to enable the required constant contact with the commutator. However, this conventional spring design carries inherent drawbacks that can be overcome by housing the brushes within a specially designed cartridge and utilizing torsion springs to ensure desired even force over the life of a motor.
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Prototype Tooling Can Help Avoid Product Launch Delays And Cost Overruns
11/19/2019
The process for launching a product with an injection-molded component has continuously developed over decades. Prototype tooling plays an important role in this process.
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3-D Printing Creates Big Innovation From Tiny Parts For Medtech Firm
11/5/2019
Many new health care technologies have advanced over the past decade to enable doctors to perform more procedures in their offices over hospital only settings. However, hysteroscopy — used to identify or treat problems of the uterus — has been slower to respond to this shift.