Medical & Healthcare

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.

A Cleveland manufacturer applies the power and precision of lasers to machine complex medical parts.

Abrasive selection and automation are keys to successful finishing of artificial implants.

Some of the factors to consider when looking into machining medical parts.

A look inside a company that specializes in making tools for cutting bone.

A medical parts maker works to reduce its customers' costs.

Cutting tool considerations for effectively machining titanium medical parts.