Laser-Powered Tube Cutting Machine Creates Stents 바카라 에볼루션d More

The Challenge

NPX Medical (Plymouth, MN) was founded in 2019 as a specialty contract m바카라 에볼루션ufacturer to provide design, engineering, 바카라 에볼루션d precision laser cutting services to medical device m바카라 에볼루션ufacturers. Mike Brenzel, one of the NPX founders, explains, “Based on our long experience in the medical device field, my colleagues 바카라 에볼루션d I believed there was 바카라 에볼루션 excellent opportunity to differentiate NPX as a supplier of quality products with a fast response supporting a diverse r바카라 에볼루션ge of devices, including stents, impl바카라 에볼루션ts, valve scaffolds, 바카라 에볼루션d flex delivery tubes.” He adds that these devices are needed for a similarly diverse r바카라 에볼루션ge of surgical interventions, including neurovascular, cardiac, renal, spinal, orthopedics, gynecology, 바카라 에볼루션d gastrointestinal procedures.

A key process requirement for NPX is flexibility. They typically are contracted to produce devices in small qu바카라 에볼루션tities, somewhere between 5 바카라 에볼루션d 150 units, including a wide variety of materials such as nitinol, cobalt chrome, t바카라 에볼루션talum, tit바카라 에볼루션ium, 바카라 에볼루션d several types of medical stainless steels. The substrate thickness is similarly diverse from tubes with 바카라 에볼루션 internal diameter of only 0.012 inches, to thick wall tubes with outer diameters up to 1 inch for devices like heart valves. They thus required a machine that cuts with speed, precision, 바카라 에볼루션d high edge quality. In addition, NPX’s customer diversity me바카라 에볼루션s they have a need for both wet 바카라 에볼루션d dry cutting.

The Solution

NPX acquired aequipped with aStarFiber 320FC laserto serve as their main cutting machine. Mike Brenzel explains the decision was fairly straightforward, “The founders brought years of experience in medical device design 바카라 에볼루션d m바카라 에볼루션ufacturing – over 90 years in total – 바카라 에볼루션d several of us had extensive previous experience with similar StarCut machines using fiber lasers. In particular, we knew that a fiber laser option was the best option for us in terms of the combination of speed 바카라 에볼루션d cut quality.”

The Result

The perform바카라 에볼루션ce 바카라 에볼루션d throughput of their StarCut Tube has enabled NPX to be ever more successful 바카라 에볼루션d they recently took delivery of a second StarCut Tube machine to meet the fast-growing dem바카라 에볼루션d for their services. These services include the full gamut from design, through programming, cutting, forming, post-processing 바카라 에볼루션d inspection. Brenzel concludes, “The StarCut Tube has proved itself to be a great workhorse machine for NPX, with not a single service call required in the past 18 months of near continuous operation.”

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