Presenting and Exhibiting: Booth 3110
Touted as “The Midwest’s Largest Annual End-to-End Design and Manufacturing Event”, Advanced Manufacturing Minneapolis brings together Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M), Automation Technology Expo (ATX), Design & Manufacturing (D&M), MinnPack, and Plastec. This 5-in-1 event offers the latest trends and technologies shaping the future in advanced design and manufacturing across medtech, packaging, automation, plastics, and design.
Isometric’s Senior Vice President, Brent Hahn, will be giving a presentation, Recent Innovations in High Aspect Ratio Catheter Tips and Cannulas at the Tech Theater on Wednesday, October 16 at 2:00PM CDT.
ABSTRACT: To make catheters and drug delivery devices smaller, smarter, and more portable – overall scale, feature sizes and wall thicknesses must be reduced without compromising quality, functionality, and manufacturability. Recent advances in sub-micron machining techniques have led to completely interchangeable high-cavitation tooling-the enabling technology to extremely high aspect ratio catheter tips and cannulas. Aspect ratios as high as 400:1 (length to thickness ratio) are now possible even in difficult-to-process materials such as PEEK, FEP, and silicone.
For decades, existing technology to create thin and high aspect ratio catheter tips and cannulas consisted of extruding, tip forming, stretching, and trimming in complex multi-station automation. Micro molding them in one single step is a key driver for lowering the cost of goods in high volume applications such as drug delivery devices, wearables, and self-diagnostics. This presentation will illustrate the latest innovations in manufacturing technologies to scale previously thought-to-be-impossible catheter tips and cannulas.
