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Top Products and Services of the Year: Reader's Choice

Top Products and Services of the Year: Reader's Choice This feature comprises the top 80 products and the top 20 literature items from the past year. Surgical Drape Adhesives Single- or double-coated systems Flexible, conformable surgical drape adhesive systems are offered by a...

Top Products and Services of the Year: Reader's Choice (continued)

Top Products and Services of the Year: Reader's Choice (continued) EDM Dictionary Contains 350 definitions A 44-page illustrated pocket dictionary contains 350 definitions of terms pertaining to EDM. The booklet can help EDM personnel of all levels, from students and apprentices to...

Top Products and Services of the Year: Reader's Choice (continued)

Top Products and Services of the Year: Reader's Choice (continued) PVA Sponge Durable, biocompatible, and hydrophilic An ultrapure, chemical-resistant sponge is made from a patented polyvinyl acetal polymer that is durable, biocompatible, and highly hydrophilic. Available in a range of...

Top Products and Services of the Year: Reader's Choice (continued)

Top Products and Services of the Year: Reader's Choice (continued) Silicone Adhesive Adheres to skin, metals, glass A pressure-sensitive silicone adhesive available in various solvents adheres to skin, metals, glass, paper, fabric, plastics, silicone, and organic rubber. MED-1355 retains...

Motor Provides Steady Power to X-Ray Viewing Device

Motor Provides Steady Power to X-Ray Viewing Device Enables diagnosticians to view multiple films as a series In order to make diagnoses from x-ray film, doctors need to use a tool known as an x-ray viewer. An x-ray filmchanger system is essential to a film viewer because without it,...

MPMN October 1997: Products Featured on the Cover

MPMN October 1997: Products Featured on the Cover Brushless dc motors offer long life and high performance A line of dc motors offers brushless longevity and slotless performance with brush manufacturability. To accommodate a variety of applications, the Elcom II motors can be configured...

Editor's Page

Editor's Page Medical Design Awards Program Debuts In July 1985, the first product tabloid created specifically for medical device designers and manufacturers was launched. In that 12-year span, Medical Product Manufacturing News has grown alongside the industry, publishing information on...

PDM Software Tracks Product Development Process

Software PDM Software Tracks Product Development Process Helps device manufacturers meet design control requirements Workgroup Technology Corp. (Lexington, MA) has developed a tool that provides medical device manufacturers with complete product data management ( PDM ) capabilities, enabling them...

Research Defines User and Customer Needs

R&D and Design Play Important Role in Development of New Biopsy Forceps Developing a medical device is challenging enough when the product category has been pioneered by others. However, being the first to market with an innovative product is fraught with risks equal to the potential benefits...

SPOTLIGHT ON PRINTING & LABELING

SPOTLIGHT ON PRINTING & LABELING Laser marking systems Three product lines of laser marking systems mark virtually all medical products, including tubing, syringes and syringe caps, surgical or dental tools, IV bags, and implants. The systems permanently mark clean date and batch codes, bar...

A Preview of Coming Attractions

Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry Magazine MDDI Article Index An MD&DI October 1997 Column One of the occupational hazards of being a monthly magazine editor is developing a skewed sense of time. Even as your hands are working on the issue of the moment, your head is...

Easing the Transition into China's Market

Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry Magazine MDDI Article Index An MD&DI October 1997 Column To the Editor: I thought the article in the July MD&DI , " China's New Business Climate Warms Up ," was excellent. My company does medical device manufacturing in China...

Managing A Small Company through Big Changes

Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry Magazine MDDI Article Index An MD&DI October 1997 Column An interview with Edward F. Voboril, chairman and chief executive officer of Wilson Greatbatch Ltd. (Clarence, NY). Small companies struggle against the tide of...

Finding the Right Off-the-Shelf Requirements Management Tool

Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry Magazine MDDI Article Index An MD&DI October 1997 Column DESIGNER'S TOOLBOX Six programs help design engineers with requirements tracking, modeling, analysis, and other tasks necessary for design control. Using a requirements...

Industry and FDA Spar Over Labeling

Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry Magazine MDDI Article Index An MD&DI October 1997 Column WASHINGTON WRAP-UP For the medical device industry, FDA's new labeling initiative is just another case of treating devices like drugs. For FDA, it's just a modest attempt to...