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Before molten resin can fill the part cavity, it must first wind its way from the sprue (the inlet of the mold) to the gate(s). In between those two...
How “The World’s Factory” Protects Your Intellectual Property
Protecting intellectual property has always posed challenges, in large part because IP deals with something intangible: the thinking behind...
A good contract manufacturer fills the gaps in their partners’ skills, capacity or capabilities. In other words, they deliver what you pay for. A...
Dealing with Disruptions and Global Material Shortages
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) sensors are the backbone of connected (IoT) medical devices. Their mechanical workings detect physical stimuli...
A supply chain contains too many moving parts for entirely smooth sailing. Inevitably, your carefully laid out plans will get jostled by unexpected...
How to Avoid Costly Mistakes By ensuring Your Design is both Consumer and Production-Ready.
If you are unhappy with your contract manufacturer’s (CM) initial performance, there are ways you can help bring them up to par. But what do you do...
Design and Manufacturing Partnerships for a Circular Economy
It turns out that your perfect design is not so perfect after all. Frail microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are damaged during assembly, rendering...
Finished products only emerge from supply chains because other things go in. A single discontinued component causes bottlenecks and a ripple of...
Why is it so difficult to find the right contract manufacturer? After all, you are spoiled for choice, with hundreds of thousands of companies of...
Some causes of unplanned downtime are as old as manufacturing itself, while others are very recent. Some of these causes impact highly regulated...
While far more than just trendy jargon, “Design for Excellence” (DfX) fulfills two common buzzword criteria:
Worth nearly $450 billion in 2019, the global medical device market is expected to break the $670 billion mark by 2027. In spite of such healthy...
Your contract manufacturing partner can have a dramatic effect on the success (or failure) of your project. While an end-to-end CM can come in at any...
Due to their durability, reliability, efficiency and availability in standardized sizes and mounting options, stepper motors are widely used in...
By converting electrical energy into motion, electrical motors literally keep our modern world turning. From compressors to ceiling fans, vacuum...
Market trends are driving significant consolidation within the medical device industry. OEMs are collaborating with suppliers that can provide...
Designing Medical Devices that Alleviate Healthcare Worker Shortages.
In its 2020 report, Risk, Resilience and Rebalancing in Global Value Chains, McKinsey Global Institute includes a graph plotting different types of...
Core-outs are sections of a plastic part where a thick section of solid material has been replaced by a square, rectangle, or hexagonal section. This...
Out of the three normal states of matter—solid, liquid, and gas—pumps can move the last two and pressurize the last one.
In the highly competitive industry of medical devices, outsourcing is almost required to stay ahead. Its benefits are evident — multidisciplinary...
Although many of the tests required by safety certifications like UL or CSA are performed at outside testing laboratories, some can (and need to) be...
5 Things Manufacturers Overlook When Deciding Between In-House Production and Outsourcing
Communication plays a critical role in any partnership. As you consider the conversations with your contract manufacturing (CM) partner, how can you...
Injection molding isn’t just for thermoplastics. The same process, with a few minor tweaks, can also be applied to synthetic rubbers.
Choosing the proper plastic for your injection molded component can be challenging. There are hundreds of raw resins to consider, and you must decide...
When OEMs and contract manufactures skip this step, an opportunity is lost to combine engineering and manufacturing expertise to detect manufacturing...
In injection molding, there are two critical “material” choices that need to be made: which plastic material to make the product out of, and which...
Gates can be a standard part of the injection molding process. They are normally formed as molten plastic flows from the machine’s nozzle tip into a...
A lot of OEMs (particularly smaller ones) use cable assemblies in their products built in-house and usually do the assembly by hand with the help of...
Although we immediately think of electronics when printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs) are mentioned, good PCBA design is in fact a...
Keeping the walls of your injection molded plastic part the same thickness is important for maintaining good cosmetics and structural integrity.
Late last year, the FDA released its list of ten guiding principles for good machine learning practice (GLMP) in medical devices. That’s the good...
Let’s first talk about linear motors, that can be thought of as conventional rotating motors whose stator has been unrolled, and laid out flat.
When it comes to choosing a contract manufacturer (CM) is bigger is better or do you prefer the personal touch small CMs provide? Whatever your...
Medical and Cosmetic Applications of Light Therapy
A Strategic Power Tool for Long-Term Improvement.
How to Tell When Your Contract Manufacturer is “The One”
How Tiny Microelectromechanical Systems are Sparking Innovations in a Big Way
Injection molding is a great way to produce a large number of plastic components at high speed and a reasonable cost. What OEMs often overlook.
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