Innovation Centers

Our Innovation Centers are designed to allow customers to take advantage of a full suite of offerings that improve time-to-market and ensure device success. Our Innovation Centers offer rapid response for pricing and lead-time and are uniquely positioned to move quickly from prototype to production with great flexibility.

Orthopedic Innovation Center – Warsaw, Indiana

• Dedicated 14,000 square feet additive manufacturing production and prototyping center, functioning as part of a comprehensive, end-to-end medical device commercialization pipeline.
• Extensive experience post machining additive manufactured spinal implants and other medical devices
• Extensive validation including horizontal/vertical tensile, porosity, chemical composition, dimensional accuracy, and parameter variance

Advanced Surgical Innovation Center – Southington, Connecticut

• Dedicated 4,000 square feet of manufacturing and operational space offering new enterprise innovation, rapid prototyping, process and equipment development, production, and assembly to support the drug delivery and advanced surgery markets
• Team of experts to support design for manufacturability to get you production ready faster to meet market demand
• Innovative team can develop new technology and part processes to support unique manufacturing approaches to help save on product cost and lead-time
• Production site support for OpEX, short orders, tooling and equipment training

Orthopedic Innovation Center Capabilities

• CNC machining centers dedicated to prototype manufacturing
• Metal additive manufacturing machines dedicated to running titanium and 17-4 stainless steel
• Large-scale Stratasys allows 3D-printing of plastic parts using biocompatible materials such as PC-ISO
• Advanced manufacturing production and prototyping plastic additive machine set up to run a variety of plastics
• Onsite engineering and programming for all aspects of manufacturing with decades of machining experience in the medical industry, including additive manufacturing
• Onsite metrology lab
• Verification and validation
• Flexibility to expand capacity and material options

Advanced Surgical Innovation Center Capabilities

• Entire facility dedicated to prototyping, equipment and process development needs
• Full toolroom including Wire EDM, CNC Mills, CNC Lathes, Grinding and heat-treating capabilities
• Onsite engineering and programming for all aspects of manufacturing with decades of machining and metal forming experience in the medical industry
• Onsite metrology lab including optical comparators, programmable vision systems, and all necessary hand tools
• Production equipment capabilities including wire EDM, CNC milling, CNC turning, cold-coiling, wire-forming, flat-stock forming, laser welding & cutting, plastic 3D printing, and post process cleaning
• Inventoried raw materials including:
• Flat stock 301SS, 302/304SS, BeCu Full to ½ Hard temper
• Round stock music wire, 301, 302/304, 17-4 Full , ½ Hard and annealed temper
• Hypodermic tube stock 304SS, Full Hard standard gauge sizes