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This medical kit assembly provides a semi-standard platform for precision medical assembly, installation and testing. The MedFlex Cell was designed to be configurable for a variety of healthcare device assemblies. From assembling catheter manufacturing equipment to leak testing medical hoses, this versatile cell will increase your manufacturing and assembly productivity by automating several steps.
What Are the Benefits of Automation in the Healthcare Industry?
Still not sure if automation is the right cure for your manufacturing headaches? Watch or read our case study about a Cincinnati-based medical device manufacturer that used automation to fast track their medical device assembly.
Medical Industry Automation Articles
Medical Device Production: Using Automation to Optimize Manufacturing
Successful medical device production results from great designs with early supplier involvement and integrated manufacturing operations. In this article, we discuss how to use automation to optimize medical device manufacturing to make the process efficient, repeatable and traceable. Optimize Medical Device Production Optimization is essential to a successful medical device assembly operation. It can come…
Induction Heated Nut Insertion: Information and Applications
Bonding plastic materials presents an interesting challenge to medical device manufacturers, especially in today’s world of miniaturization, weight-reduction, lifespan extension and ultra-fast times to market. Traditional methods of fusing and gluing plastics together struggle to support modern functional and cost expectations. At the same time, many manufacturers may resist investing in advanced solutions given current…
Use Robotic Manufacturing to End your Labor Shortage Woes
Robotic manufacturing is one of the oldest and most well-known applications of modern industrial automation. There are an estimated three million industrial robots in use today. Using more programmable robots in manufacturing may be a viable solution to the current labor shortage woes. Programmable robots increase efficiency, reduce injury risk and can be used for a…
Case Study: A Case for Automation in Medical Device Assembly
Automation Fast-Tracks Assembly for Medical Device Manufacturer Challenge A Cincinnati-based medical device manufacturer of minimally invasive wearable injectors was in a bind: The company’s senior manufacturing engineer needed a process for joining three small metal tube spikes to the plastic device. The joining technique had to be repeatable and efficient, and it required verification at…
Medical Device Automation: New Trends For 2021
Effective leak testing is literally a matter of life or death in the medical device industry. Medical devices separate body fluids or deliver precise dosage of medicines. Given the stringent needs for accuracy, medical device manufacturers need to develop processes that are foolproof to ensure that each and every medical device performs precisely as intended.…
Manufacturing Labor Shortage: Three Ways to Identify Areas to Automate
In today’s economy, American industrial manufacturing is at a pivotal crossroads. Consumer demand for manufactured products has increased steadily over the past 10 years, yet the manufacturing labor shortage has also increased over that same time. We have more things to make, and fewer people available or interested in making them. To some, this manufacturing…