Medical Device Designer Engineers are often faced with tough choices. Sourced components are key to enabling their designs, dimensions must be defined and the materials selected. Often the component specifications frame what can be easily known and practically measured. It is…
Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality. W.Edwards Deming Precision matters. Costs from variation are seldom well understood. They live below the radar. They compound as they move along the the assembly system and through the supply chain. Adaptations to…
At Microcatheter Components we have big heart for babies and children. We commit ourselves to supporting those technology leaders who pursue new medical device solutions for the pediatric market. Our capabilities serve this market well. Precision, miniaturization, multilayer capability –…
Three layers. Total wall thickness less than .003 inches (.075mm). Outside diameter, .030 inches (.75mm). This multilayer atraumatic tip is comprised of a bright 40% barium sulfate filled 25D nylon copolymer and a virgin inner layer. This is an just one…
There are medical device applications for which optimal mechanical properties are critical to performance. Balloon tubing is a good example. Balloon tubing must be manufactured with optimized elongation and tensile yield properties in order to achieve balloon performance and production…
Hard to believe that Microsoft was once a company of two people – Bill Gates and Paul Allen. We all know THAT success story. Yet, perhaps we will have a similar success story that – over the next several years…
The increase in minimally invasive neurointerventional procedures in a growing “baby boomer” population means microcatheters will continue to be critical for angiography, neurothrombectomy, balloon angioplasty and delivery of stents, coils and liquid embolics. Delivery of neurointerventional devices through critical pathways…
