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Source: Engineering 360
Blood, plasma and water droplets beading on a liquid-repellent surface.
Source: Colorado State University
A titanium surface that’s extremely repellent to blood could form the basis for surgical implants which reduce the risk of rejection by the body.
Read more: Implant Material Repels Blood by the Engineering 360 News Desk
Titanium Used on Medical Implants Read More »
Leading companies in the aerospace, automotive, commercial heat treating, medical, and metal injection molding industries received shipment of 25 furnaces during the last three months of 2016 from Ipsen, one of North America’s leading suppliers of industrial heat treating furnaces. Furnaces were received at heat treat facilities in six counties and 13 U.S. states and ranged in design from custom-built debinding and sintering furnace to a horizontal vacuum furnace (MetalMaster®) with 20,000-pound (9,072 kg) load capacity.
Newly received units also included an atmosphere washer and loader and several TITAN® vacuum furnaces equipped with PdMetrics® predictive maintenance software designed to optimize equipment performance and minimize downtime. Other vacuum furnaces received included horizontal and vertical MetalMaster furnaces, TITAN DS (debinding and sintering) furnaces, a VerticalTurbo, a TITAN LT (low-temperature), a horizontal TurboTreater® and an HEQ (horizontal external quench) from the VFS® product line.
The company’s global ICS (Ipsen Customer Service) Team facilitated system installations, as well as provided expert training, startup assistance and 360° support throughout the entire life span of the equipment for any brand.
Source: Today’s Medical Developments
Already extensively used in aerospace, semiaustenitic stainless steel 17-7 PH is finding new applications in the medical industry. The material is most often used in sheet and strip form, with springs, clips, and bellows being widely produced. The high alloy content of 17-7 provides excellent corrosion resistance, an attractive attribute to the medical industry.
Read more to find out how this material behaves after annealing at 1,950°F…….
Enhanced Properties for Bright 17-7 PH Stainless Steel Read More »
Source: Rice University News and Media
“Titanium is the leading material for artificial knee and hip joints because it’s strong, wear-resistant, and nontoxic, but an unexpected discovery by Rice University physicists shows that the gold standard for artificial joints can be improved with the addition of some actual gold.”
Read More: Titanium + Gold = New Gold Standard for Artificial Joints by Jade Boyd and Co-Authors Pulickel Ajayan, Sruthi Radhakrishnan and Chandra Sekhar Tiwary, all of Rice; Tiglet Besara, Yan Xin, Ke Han and Theo Siegrist, all of Florida State; Fevzi Ozaydin and Hong Liang, both of Texas A&M; and Sendurai Mani of MD Anderson
Titanium + Gold = New Gold Standard for Artificial Joints Read More »
Thermal Product Solutions (TPS), a global manufacturer of thermal-processing equipment, announced the shipment of a Blue M Ultra-Temp Standard Convection Oven to the Orthodontics industry. The convection oven will be used for a metal injection molding debind process at temperatures of 390°F and 1050°F.
The Blue M oven work chamber is 48” W x 24” D x 36” H and has a maximum temperature rating of 1300°F. The customer’s parts will be placed on ceramic trays then run through the debind cycle that usually lasts 14 to 16-hour cycle. The process off gasses some non-hazardous fumes that condense into a form of wax. The parts are loaded into the oven via a lift truck.
The oven has a powered exhaust with VFD for pulling out non-hazardous fumes coming from the products during the de-binding process. The VFD will enable the customer to adjust the exhaust motor speed to reduce or increase the exhaust flow rate.
Unique features of these Blue M ovens include:
Orthodontic Industry Purchases Blue M Convection Oven from TPS Read More »
Source: Power Transmission Engineering June 2016
“For suppliers, the other way to get involved is obviously through getting audited for accreditation. If you’re interested in an audit, the process is fairly straightforward. Once in contact with MedAccred, a supplier details their products and figures out what categories they should be applying for.”
Find out what medical options are available to the heat treating world by reading: Bringing Nadcap to the Medical Industry
Heat Treat Basics: Bringing Nadcap to the Medical Industry Read More »
Source: Dental Materials –
Elgiloy is the trade name of a cobalt–chromium–nickel superalloy that is offered for orthodontic use as wire. Despite some years of use, there is very little information in the dental literature on its mechanical properties, and especially on the effect of the hardening heat treatment (HT), that may be used after forming, on the tensile strength (TS) in relation to the four ‘tempers’ that are available.
Effect of Heat Treatment on the Tensile Strength of ‘Elgiloy’ Orthodontic Wire Read More »
Source: Today’s Medical Developments –
Many physical ailments would go untended if it weren’t for the metals and heat treatments used to repair us. Cobalt chrome alloys, titanium, stainless steel – these and a host of proprietary metals are used in knee and hip joint replacement, fusion cages that relieve pressure on ailing discs, pacemakers and pumps, and the screws and hardware that hold it all together.
Read More: Metal Medical Miracles – Sandvik Coromant
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To meet Schafer Gear Works’ growing demand for high-precision commercial aviation shafts and gears, the company recently moved its Fort Wayne, Ind., operations to its larger production facility in South Bend, Ind. “Acquisition of new, state-of-the-art equipment at our South Bend plant and the ability to better leverage our gear manufacturing expertise led to the transfer,” said Paresh Shah, operations manager for the South Bend facility. The transition was seamless and the plant now produces precision-critical shafts and small-diameter gears with tolerances to 0.0004” and microfinishes to 16 RMS.
Shah said moving the small-diameter gear production 90 miles west to Schafer Gear Works South Bend will improve design and manufacturing efficiencies as well as customer support. By centralizing the facility’s small- and medium-diameter gear engineering, production and quality control expertise, the company is expanding its presence in the aerospace and automotive industries as well as with medical instruments, light and heavy industrial products, recreation vehicles, and material handling companies. Its efforts to reduce tool costs and downtime keep pricing competitive and delivery among the fastest in the gear-making industry. Because of the South Bend facility’s continuous equipment improvements and stringent quality standards, it has earned ISO 9001-2008 and AS9100 certification.
Schafer Gear Works manufactures one of the widest ranges of custom-engineered, precision-cut gears for off-highway markets. In addition to the small-diameter gears and precision components, the South Bend plant produces 1.5- to 10-inch diameter spur, internal and helical gears as well as shafts.
Source: Fastener-World.com
Heat Treatment of Medical Device Fasteners Read More »