IMPROVE MEDICAL AND HEALTHCARE DEVICES MANUFACTURING AND PRODUCTION EFFICIENCIES
Enhance patient outcomes.
When it comes to saving or enhancing lives, continuous breakthrough innovation is paramount. The faster you can get your device to clinical trials, or your model into the surgery, the better the outcome for all.
We have been helping the medical industry to develop innovative devices since 2003. Our broad spectrum of services and technologies support a wide range of materials specifically designed for medical sector.
We’ve helped our medical innovation customers to innovate, develop, test, improve and produce high quality parts. We’ve supported them through concept visualization and design iterations. We’ve given them the tools needed for quick decision-making. We’ve helped them shorten product development cycles. We’ve helped them to find production solutions. We’ve been flexible and kept costs down. And we’ve made sure they’re happy. Time and again.
Additive Manufacturing for Medical & Healthcare
Tool-free solutions for end-use parts
Additive manufacturing enables medical practitioners and product innovators to deliver customised healthcare solutions faster and more cost-effectively. We offer a range additive manufacturing technologies and medically approved materials to help you develop the products and processes required to improve patients’ lives. We have helped our medical innovation customers to create precise replicas of patient anatomy for surgical preparation; to personalise prostheses components; and to manufacture devices, models and equipment in low volumes.
Our revolutionary additive manufacturing technologies, Digital Light Synthesis™ and Multi Jet Fusion open up endless exciting production and customisation opportunities. Parts possess all the qualities of injection moulded plastics without the tooling costs. Materials are all biocompatible and the layering and resolution are so good you can even print wires in 1:72 scale!
Prototyping to production
Meet product challenges at any scale. The additive manufacturing process drastically reduces prototyping time with an ‘on-deck’ facility for revising designs in no time.
Production
Print end-use parts with consistent isotropic and mechanical properties. Multiple parts provide scale economics. A wide variety of biocompatible materials, including rubbers, flexible polyurethanes and rigid nylons.
Applications
Manufacture patient-specific parts for prosthetics; medical equipment components; single use surgical instrument parts including handles and grips, and drug contact devices such as inhalers and pill dispensers.
Rapid Technologies for Medical & Healthcare
Highly accurate, finely detailed, customised models, prototypes and end-use parts
Shorten production times for revolutionary ideas and enhance quality with a suite of rapid validation prototyping and testing services, including 3D printing, vacuum casting, reaction injection moulding and silicone casting. Our experienced technicians and model makers deliver highly accurate, production-representative parts produced quickly and cost-effectively using low-cost tooling capabilities.
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Form and functionality
A fast, cost-effective method of producing low numbers of highly detailed, highly accurate thermoplastic, silicone and polyurethane components and products with similar properties to injection moulded or cast parts.
Production
From one offs to low numbers of prototypes. Our model makers can add essentials such as mechanisms and electrics.
Applications
Turn around low number production runs of large, strong, flexible, lightweight parts quickly and cost-effectively. Typical applications include housings, casings, lenses and filter systems. Parts can be flexible or rigid. We offer a wide range of materials, many of which can be coloured.
CNC Technologies for Medical & Healthcare
Lower costs and assure quality with end-to-end supply chain management, and faster tooling and part production times.
Our CNC machining capabilities allow you to flex your designs, produce prototypes quickly, develop tools for manufacture and achieve outstanding quality at the manufacturing stage.
- Test parts and devices with engineering-grade materials the same strength, weight and feel as the end-product. Test variations of part designs in parallel
- Use CNC machining as a cost-effective option for production volumes of fewer than 300
- Flex your supply chain and reduce warehousing costs with on-demand production of component parts
- Improve manufacturing efficiencies and ensure repeatable accuracy with custom gauges, jigs and fixtures
Design support
For gauges, jigs and fixtures. Working together to ensure creative and functional elements align with repeatability, and quality is assured at the point of manufacture.
Production
3 and 5 axis milling and turning to create prototypes and component parts. Lower inventory spending and meet quality and delivery targets with contract manufacturing.
Tooling
Our large-gantry, state-of-the-art CNC machines provide facility for production of assembly, RIM, vac, press, and hammer form tools as well as specialist dies and moulds.