Ian Bolland caught up with Heiko Haller, enterprise improvement supervisor, medical from ZwickRoell, to elucidate the corporate’s providing to the medical gadget manufacturing sector forward of Med-Tech Innovation Expo.
ZwickRoell might be showcasing its testing equipment that may assist medical producers take a look at for high quality parts and supplies.
A big a part of the ZwickRoell medical product providing could be present in its potential to check the suitability of drug supply gadgets.
Its remedy programs merchandise embody autoinjectors, auto injector spring simulation, insulin pens and pen injectors, prefilled syringes, testing on syringe programs, break resistance of injection needles, and extra.
Additionally amongst its providing is the corporate’s Horizontal Testing machine. This, together with glide power testing, can be utilized for high quality and properties testing on catheters.
Explaining the method, Haller stated: “We simulate this in a water path. It’s like a shower and we warmth it as much as physique temperature and we simulate the power that a health care provider brings to a catheter when it’s being inserted.
“We simulate when the physician clamps the catheter and pushes it into the physique and involves a place the place he re-clamps it.”
Checking the power that the fabric brings is a crucial component, as Haller highlighted that lot of analysis and improvement firms to make use of supplies to test the friction a cloth could possess.
The drug supply portfolio additionally stretched to testing blister packaging – establishing how a lot power is required for a pill to be eliminated for consumption.
Orthopaedics is one other space the place ZwickRoell’s equipment can have an effect on the medical gadget market.
The equipment within the firm’s portfolio permits it to check synthetic hip joints, spinal implants, intervertebral physique fusion gadgets, knee implants, bone plates and bone screws.
“All the pieces imaginable is used on a affected person wants a high quality take a look at. And high quality testing on this specific sector is so, so essential.”
Haller acknowledged that if a product fails a take a look at that it won’t essentially be the product itself, which is why there are every day checks on the ZwickRoell equipment to make sure every thing is as much as commonplace.
With ZwickRoell serving many markets in addition to medical gadgets, Haller commented the place he thinks the market is at for medical gadget testing.
“Requirements are rising, the necessities for testing is rising, and high quality is increasingly essential.
“If an implant breaks and a silicone runs out, for instance, this can be a high quality challenge and. It might probably take a life on the finish. We’ve this machine to keep away from such fails, which may affect the well being of the affected person.”
ZwickRoell might be exhibiting at Med-Tech Innovation Expo on 7-8 June on Stand B18. To register for FREE, go to www.med-techexpo.com.
