The Essential Resource for the Medical Design Engineering Community
Test Kit
April 18, 2006 6:57 am | Raven Biological Laboratories | Product Releases | CommentsProPact is a peracetic acid culture test kit for use in the Steris System 1 sterilization process. ProPact involves an improved, more distinctive color change from purple to yellow and offers results in only 24 hours (improved from 48 hours).
More Needs To Be Done To Accelerate Device Reviews - von Eschenbach
April 18, 2006 6:38 am | News | Product Releases | CommentsActing FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach said the agency needs to go beyond the "incremental" improvements it has made in speeding up the review of device premarket applications under the Medical Device User Fee & Modernization Act (MDUFMA).
Motors Guide
April 17, 2006 7:00 am | News | Product Releases | CommentsDanaher Motion has introduced a new guide to Portescap Miniature Specialty Motors. The guide highlights the Portescap family of brushless DC motors, brushed DC coreless motors, and stepper motors, as well as its digital linear actuators, gearheads, and encoders.
FDA Compliance Kit
April 17, 2006 7:00 am | News | Product Releases | CommentsMedical device companies today struggle with the continual need for design innovation and faster time-to-market, while under pressure to comply with strict FDA regulations.
Fasteners Reference Card
April 17, 2006 7:00 am | News | Product Releases | CommentsTo help design engineers determine the proper installation torque for the fasteners in their product designs, Archetype Joint LCC is offering a free Torque & Tool Reference Card. This handy 4 3/4 x 3 1/2 in. reference card provides reference on installation torque values for fasteners 1/4 to 5/8 in.
The Open Prosthetics Project Shares Free Designs
April 17, 2006 7:00 am | News | Product Releases | CommentsThe Open Prosthetics Project has adopted the Alibre Design 3D parametric modeler as the CAD standard for industry-wide collaboration. On the project’s website, medical product designers can post new ideas for prosthetic devices as CAD files, which are then available to the public free of charge.
Plastics Search Engine (2965)
April 17, 2006 7:00 am | News | Product Releases | CommentsIDES Inc. has launched their vertical search engine for the plastics industry. In one simple search, IDES gives users free access to articles, technical documents, and websites.
Online Sensor Configurator
April 17, 2006 7:00 am | News | Product Releases | CommentsMinco, a designer and manufacturer of critical components for critical applications, offers the “Sensor Configurator”—a configuration tool that allows customers to specify, price, and order Minco sensors, instruments, and assemblies online in one easy process.
Online Cylinder Sizing
April 17, 2006 7:00 am | News | Product Releases | CommentsBimba Manufacturing offers a powerful, web-based Sizing and Selection module for designing-in Bimba products. The user-friendly software allows engineers to find the right part for the job, test it to different application variables, and easily generate a model number for ordering.
3D Fluid Power Device Models
April 17, 2006 7:00 am | News | Product Releases | CommentsBeswick Engineering designs and manufactures high-performance miniature fluid power devices and its web site now offers 3D models for download. Many customers have transitioned from 2D drawings to 3D models to shorten their design cycle.
Fluid Sensing Website
April 17, 2006 7:00 am | News | Product Releases | CommentsGems Sensors & Controls has opened a web site dedicated to addressing the fluid sensing and control needs of medical equipment design engineers.
Thick-Gauge Lidstock
April 6, 2006 7:32 am | Ampac Flexibles | Product Releases | CommentsThe Flexi 6864 is a polyester/foil/heat-seal coated polyethylene for physically demanding applications such as orthopedic parts, cardio kits, diagnostics, and other heavier medical device/sterile medical disposable items.
Bi-Solvent Cleaning System
April 6, 2006 7:32 am | Product Releases | Comments3M and Forward Technology have cooperated to optimize a cleaning process that employs Novec 7200 engineered fluid and methyl soyate. Both are clean air solvent certified by the South Coast Air Quality Management District of California.
Display
April 6, 2006 7:32 am | Data Image USA | Product Releases | CommentsThis 3.5 in., QVGA, full color TFT with white LED backlight is ideal for handheld portable instruments, automated instrumentation, medical devices, and many more applications. The display is an 8 Bit x RGB (24 Bit) input via serial, parallel, CCIR601, or CCIR656.
Micro Continuous Coiler
April 6, 2006 7:32 am | Kinefac Corporation | Product Releases | CommentsRecognizing the growing need for a high-speed, economical process to make catheter casings, biopsy coils, and similar long, small diameter, round wire coils for the medical device industry, this version of the Micro-Coiler deflection coiling machines, the Micro Continuous Coiler, is offered.
