INJECTION MOLDING
Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry Magazine | MDDI Article Index Originally published April 1996 Thomas L. Miller Development Chemist, Technical Service and Development Dow Plastics, Midland, MI
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EXTRUSION
Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry Magazine | MDDI Article Index Originally published April 1996 Paul Hendess Senior Process Engineer; Pipe, Profile, and Tubing Systems Davis-Standard Corp., Pawcatuck, CT Plastic extrusion is a steady-state process for converting a...
INSERT MOLDING
Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry Magazine | MDDI Article Index Originally published April 1996 Jim Vance, Jr. President Medical Polymers, Inc., Spencer, IN Insert molding is an injection molding process whereby plastic is injected into a cavity and around an insert...
LIQUID RESIN CASTING
Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry Magazine | MDDI Article Index Originally published April 1996 James E. Snyder Vice President Polymer Design Corp., Rockland, MA Pouring liquid rubber or plastic into molds, then allowing it to cure to solid form, describes the...
PRESSURE FORMING
Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry Magazine | MDDI Article Index Originally published April 1996 Al Scovill Vice President Ray Products, Ontario, CA Although comparatively few companies are familiar with pressure forming, this technique is being used increasingly to produce...
ROTATIONAL MOLDING
Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry Magazine | MDDI Article Index Originally published April 1996 Mike Greer Marketing Manager Spin-Cast Plastics, Inc., South Bend, IN Although the term rotational molding is unfamiliar to many, the products produced by the process are...
REACTION INJECTION MOLDING
Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry Magazine | MDDI Article Index Originally published April 1996 Fred T. Wickis, Jr. Vice President Evergreen Molding, Greenville, SC
Applying Reliability Engineering duringProduct Development
Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry Magazine MDDI Article Index Lee Heydrick and Kenneth A. Jones A familiar term from advertisements for products and services, reliability is the probability that an item will perform as intended, under specific conditions, for a specified...
The Device Industry Looks Up--and to the East
Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry Magazine | MDDI Article Index Originally published March 1996 A lthough grousing about FDA remains prevalent in the medical device industry--I still get the occasional wild-eyed letter flogging MD&DI for featuring interviews with the "...
IPO Market Best in Years, Say Analysts
Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry Magazine | MDDI Article Index Originally published March 1996 Financing Faster FDA review and the force of the managed-care marketplace are contributing to one of the best financing climates for young medical device companies in the last 18 years,...
Supreme Court May Resolve Liability Preemption Dilemma
Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry Magazine | MDDI Article Index Originally published March 1996 Product Liability The most important court case in the recent history of the medical device industry is scheduled to begin this spring. "There are a lot of medical device manufacturers,...
Device Manufacturers Say Yes to EDI
Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry Magazine | MDDI Article Index Originally published March 1996 Manufacturing If electronic data interchange (EDI) is the destination of the future, U.S. device manufacturers are halfway there--sort of. Responding to an informal straw poll of MD...
First FDA Reform, Then a New Agenda
Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry Magazine | MDDI Article Index Originally published March 1996 Henry A. McKinnell, PhD Chairman, Health Industry Manufacturers Association (HIMA) Executive Vice President, Pfizer, Inc. F ew people in the medical device industry could...
WASHINGTON WRAP-UP
Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry Magazine | MDDI Article Index Originally published March 1996 James G. Dickinson W hen it comes to regulatory gray zones, a company's natural tendency to avoid what it considers needless expense can produce a penny-wise, pound-foolish result--a...
FDA Yields on Text Dissemination
Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry Magazine | MDDI Article Index Originally published March 1996 In a major policy move designed to defuse the ticking First Amendment time bomb that threatens its control of product marketing, FDA in December unveiled two draft guidances that offer...