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Highly dynamic motion systems for stent processing
The production of microtubes for stents, catheters, or biopsy cannulas requires laser cutting processes that guarantee both the highest precision and high throughput. This places high demands on the motion technology: only when the drive, control, and mechanics are perfectly coordinated can fine cuts be achieved in short cycle times.
Automated Servo Control Optimization for High-Precision Laser Processing Applications
High-precision laser processing is essential for manufacturing critical components in diverse applications ranging from medical device and electronics production to semiconductor fabrication. Cost-effective, high-quality production requires equipment with exceptional precision and dynamics. Even when using advanced controls and precision components, optimizing motion systems for laser beam guidance remains a challenge. Fully optimizing precision machines normally requires a large time investment and detailed knowledge of underlying control principles and algorithms.
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Optimizing Motion Systems for the High-Precision, High-Throughput Laser Cutting of Cylindrical Medical Products
One of the most universal challenges in precision engineering and machine design involves making tradeoffs and design compromises. This is especially true in cylindrical medical product manufacturing. Engineers, managers and business leaders regularly have to choose between making parts quickly – but with errors that lead to extensive post-processing scrap rates – and making highly precise parts in lower volumes at higher costs.Â
Precision Meets Speed: Optimizing Motion Systems for Cylindrical Medical Device Manufacturing
Manufacturing cylindrical medical devices such as stents and hypotubes demands extreme precision, repeatability, and cost-efficiency—challenges that are increasingly being addressed through advanced robotics and automation. This session will delve into how to achieve both precision and speed simultaneously as well as identify some of the most pervasive error sources along with effective strategies to mitigate them and minimize the tradeoffs between achieving micron-level precision and high-process throughput. Attendees will learn design guidelines and best practices for effectively choosing precision motion systems and suppliers including several nuances that must be considered to achieve high part reproducibility and high throughput.
Micrometer-scale precision: Error budgeting for high-throughput laser drilling systems
How can you determine and mitigate total system errors to design a machine that achieves both production throughput and process quality objectives simultaneously for via drilling with lasers?
New Horizons in Cardiac Stent Manufacturing
Since the early 1990s, a procedure to widen cardiology patients’ blocked or narrowed arteries—percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)—has used metal stents. These bare metal stents have proven to be particularly useful in addressing elastic compression that reduced efficacy of traditional balloon devices for maintaining desired arterial widening.
Precision Laser Material Processing: The Definitive Guide
In modern manufacturing, where demands for miniaturization, complexity and…
