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Medical Device Manufacturers Hit Major Hurdles—Can Contract Manufacturers Help?
"MICRO’s customers increasingly want to consolidate supply chains, so full-service suppliers who can support product and process development, component manufacturing, and assembly will have a...
Orthopedics Moves Toward Minimally Invasive
With articulating instruments, contract manufacturers must understand the nature of these tools to effectively design functional, high-quality components, keeping in mind the number of times a tube...
Ramping Up Manufacturing For Single-Use Surgical Instruments: What You Need to Know
Medical device manufacturers want to know that they can get disposables manufactured without sacrificing cost or quality. With advances in technology and materials like high-grade stainless steel,...
Designing Medical Devices for Manufacturability: How and Why You Should
A lot of things can go wrong if design engineers don't take manufacturability into consideration. Not taking manufacturability into consideration during the design process tends to drive...
Metal Injection Molding and Metal 3D Printing: Alternatives to Machining
Medical device manufacturers can utilize a variety of methods for producing parts, medical devices, and instruments, including complex ones for surgical procedures such as laparoscopic minimally...
Tubing Capabilities to Improve Efficiency and Quality in Medical Device Manufacturing
Stainless steel tubing is a primary support feature of single-use handheld surgical devices. Medical device original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and their contract manufacturer organization (CMO)...
MICRO Expands Full-Service Medical Contract Manufacturing Operations with New Costa Rica Facility
SOMERSET, NJ, April 13, 2021 – Today, MICRO, a full-service contract manufacturing organization specializing in precision components, sub-assemblies, and complete devices for minimally invasive...
How Robotics Improve Medical Device Manufacturing — Especially During the Pandemic
The advent of Industry 4.0 and most recently the COVID-19 pandemic have put robots to work in medical device manufacturing. MICRO’s Steven Jacobsen, manager of process development...
Design for Manufacturability: Optimizing MIM in Medical Device Manufacturing
MICRO’s Executive Vice President Steve Santoro was a keynote speaker at this week’s MIM2021: International Conference on Injection Molding of Metals, Ceramics and Carbides, held virtually February...