Medical Devices Industry for Rapid Prototyping and Production

Medical devices are known for their complex structure and high requirements for precision and reliability. Tuofa puts higher demands on the workpiece material, processing accuracy and surface finish of medical device parts, which also means that the precision processing capability needs to move to a new level.

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Why Medical Device Companies Choose Tuofa?

Agile Response

Create small batch customization production capacity for medical devices, Tuofa is in action! By operating with rapid prototyping in 1 day and small batch production in 7 days, we respond quickly to the individual needs of doctors and patients.

Multiple Materials

Choose from hundreds of materials including engineering plastics with excellent stability, polymers with high machinability, and high-strength metal materials. In reducing manufacturing costs, physicians and patients can enjoy healthcare services at a lower cost.

Technology Leadership

Use the world's most advanced 3D printers and 5-axis CNC machines to create versatile, appearance-oriented, high-precision medical parts trusted by more than 28% of Fortune 500 medical device companies and medical device engineers and medical device designers.

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Aerospace & aviation equipment consists of millions of precision components with a wide variety of parts and complex designs, and based on the high stability, speed, and safety requirements of the aerospace industry, Toppan has extremely high-quality standards for the design, manufacturing, machining, and assembly of components in all segments.

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What Materials Work Best for Custom Medical Instruments?

Titanium and titanium alloys are mainly used in orthopedic surgery, especially in limb and cranial reconstruction, for the production of various fracture internal fixation devices, artificial joints, skull and dura, artificial heart valves, teeth, dental beds, brackets and crowns.

Cobalt alloys are more suitable for the manufacture of long-term implants with severe in vivo loading conditions, mainly used for the manufacture of artificial hip joints, knee joints, joint fasteners, bone plates, bone nails and bone pins.

Stainless steel is used for fracture avoidance medical devices: knives, scissors, hemostats, needles, artificial joints, internal fracture fixators, orthodontics, artificial heart valves, etc.

Medical precious metals are the general term for gold (An), silver (Ag), platinum (Pt) and their alloys. Because of their excellent electrical conductivity, they are often used to make implantable electrodes or electronic detection devices.

Polyethylene is among the top medical-grade plastics because of its cost-effectiveness, impact resistance, corrosion resistance and robust structural integrity during frequent sterilization cycles, making it suitable for the manufacture of prostheses.

Polypropylene is stress, crack, impact and fatigue resistant and is used in the manufacture of plastic components for medical devices such as disposable syringes, oxygenator membranes, prescription bottles, connectors and knuckle prostheses.

PVC materials are durable, strong and rigid. It is suitable for the manufacture of hemodialysis devices, catheters, cardiac catheters and prosthetic materials.

Polycarbonate has good heat resistance and biocompatibility and is suitable for the manufacture of medical components such as IV connectors for renal dialysis, cardiac surgery.

Medical Parts Applications

Tuofa can supply you with high-quality medical plastic and metal materials. Regardless of the stages of processing, design, and development, the solutions and experience of our medical engineers can bring you efficient, comfortable and safe products and help you achieve higher product benefits.

Bone Plates

Implant Roots

Cardiovascular Stents

Screws

Knife, Scissors

Hemostat, Needle

Manufacturing Capacity of Medical Industry

Most of the medical parts have the characteristics of small batch, multi-species, irregular shape, hard material, high surface finish, etc. These parts need strict precision manufacturing and quality control, such as orthopedic implants (mostly titanium alloy or stainless steel, with joint plates, artificial joints, bone nails, etc.), dental implants, pacemaker parts, etc.

CNC Machining Service

Tolerances down to ±.0008 in ( ± 0.01 mm )

Lead times from 3 business days

● CNC Milling
● CNC Turning
● Surface Treatment

Sheet Metal Fabrication

Tolerances down to ±.004 in ( ± 0.01 mm )

Lead times from 7 business days

● Laser Cutting
● Stamping
● Bending

3D Printing Projects

±0.2% dimensional accuracy with a lower limit down to ±0.0059 in (0.15 mm)

Lead times from 1 business days

● FDM
● SLA
● SLS
● MJF

The medical device industry is growing, and medical device companies continue to look for better manufacturers to enhance their competitive advantage.

Learn more about Tuofa's manufacturing potential for the medical industry.

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How does Tuofa Innovate Medical Technologies?

Tuofa implements product experimentation and development according to your design drawings, design concepts, specific functional or index requirements, and the whole process relies on the professional skills and valuable experience of our medical engineers.

Engineer Support

Tuofa has 2 medical device design engineers with 30 years of experience. In the innovation of medical technologies, we improve the efficiency of R&D and design for your project, while ensuring the stability of the product.

Alternative Solutions

The average price of obtaining a set of surgical instruments is about $3,000, which is quite expensive. Tuofa uses proven 3D printing technology to complete this project and the surgical instruments become more complete and cost effective.

Individual Needs

Low-cost printing of realistic prostheses and orthoses with a high degree of customization to individual requirements.

Medical Implants

Development of new materials suitable for 3D printing, such as biodegradable plastics that can be used for custom medical implants.

People Also Ask

Tuofa's conception of 3D printing medical devices

Since 2006, Toppan has been developing and designing medical parts using the latest 3D printing technology. With the advantage of manufacturing complex structures and low volume customization, we are trying to optimize the design and manufacturing of some surgical instruments. Many surgical instruments integrate multiple parts that are assembled together by screws or using welding.

If these surgical instruments are manufactured through 3D printing technology, it is possible to optimize the design of surgical instruments, reduce the number of assembled parts, or even design these instruments as a monolithic, functionally integrated instrument, and then manufacture these structurally complex products through 3D printers .

The future development direction of metal medical materials

1, physicians and patients want to use the best metal medical materials, long-term use of safety and reliability is the basic requirements for medical metal materials. Therefore, the future development of metal medical materials is still to continuously improve the use of safety, reliability and biocompatibility.

2, the establishment of a systematic basic database on the toxicity of metal elements to the human body, the use of big data research and analysis of the correlation between the toxicity of metal elements inside and outside the human body, as well as the implantation of metal materials and the human body molecular level research. Using molecular biology techniques to study the impact of metal elements on human tissue from the molecular level, so as to further understand the impact of metal medical materials on the human body.

3, the future of metal medical materials to further expand the type, the use of cost to further reduce. Although in the past few decades, metal medical materials have been developed rapidly, however, in the clinical use is still a limited number of. Therefore, research and development of high corrosion resistance, high wear resistance, high fatigue strength and high toughness raw body alloy is still important.

4, the metal medical materials currently being used, the use of new technologies such as 3D printing and new processes to complete the custom printing of medical devices. The reality is that the patient's condition is different and the surgery to be performed by the doctor is different, each surgery has its uniqueness, customized printing for this different situation will provide convenience for doctors and patients, and more conducive to the success of the surgery.

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