Little by little, I’m learning about the medical device industry. With my EE background, I’m finding that it’s not as hard as I expected to pick up the terminology. While I don’t expect to be performing surgery any time soon, neither are the readers of this space. They do, however, make the products that are used by the surgeons in many cases.

My medical-device education got a boost yesterday when I visited the folks at Micro. If you’re not familiar with Micro, and I admit I wasn’t before the meeting, they are a full service contract manufacturer that specializes in medical assembly and precision metal stamping, amongst other things.

It was pretty remarkable hearing some of their success stories, such as how they saved one of their customers time and money using an advanced metal injection molding (MIM) process. They do almost all of the manufacturing of their products from their New Jersey location, and are sticklers for quality control.

Combine this technology with the embedded software I discovered today for improving product traceability, my medical is advancing quite nicely.

Rich Nass