Medical & Healthcare

Despite economic turmoil, vertical machine tool builders are keeping their customers and themselves in the game with new technology, services and added value.

Shops can be both lean and green by using work cell-based approach to parts washing and environmentally friendly cleaning compounds and technologies.

Innovative technologies and techniques for manufacturing minimally invasive medical technologies.

Boring tools can do more than true holes — they can also help overcome r manufacturing obstacles.

In 2008, Heinz Kaiser AG celebrated its 60th anniversary, a year that also marked a change in the ownership of the company. On Jan. 1, 2008, Chris Kaiser, Karlheinz Kaiser and Gabriela Brasher-Kaiser assumed ownership of the company from their father, Heinz Kaiser, who founded Kaiser AG in 1948.

As the orthopedic implant market grows, manufacturers and shops search for new turning center technology to ensure a competitive edge.

Grooving miniature parts requires a conservative cutting approach and a choice between solid-carbide and insertable tools.

Manufacturers use broaching to make small parts for medical and aerospace applications.

Advanced ceramics' properties make them suitable materials for medical instruments and implants, as well as for parts in medical devices. Making ceramic parts, however, requires manufacturing techniques similar to those used to make P/M parts and may require applying diamond-impregnated tools and wheels.

The role of microabrasive blasting when finishing implantable medical parts.

Builders continue their march toward faster, more precise EDMs. EDM builders continue to advance their machine tools' capabilities and pay special attention to medical-parts manufacturers.

F&F Screw Machine Products continues to to diversify by producing the thread whirling tools applied to produce many medical parts.