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Emerging Trends in Medical Plastic Engineering and Manufacturing
This book brings users a practical guide on the state-of-the- art technologies used in plastics for medical devices and healthcare applications, enabling engineers to anticipate new developments and gain a strategic advantage over their competitors
Markus Schönberger (Author), Marc Hoffstetter (Author)
9780323370233, Elsevier Science
Hardback, published 6 January 2016
302 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.3 cm, 0.68 kg
Emerging Trends in Medical Plastic Engineering and Manufacturing gives engineers and materials scientists working in the field detailed insights into upcoming technologies in medical polymers. While plastic manufacturing combines the possibility of mass production and wide design variability, there are still opportunities within the plastic engineering field which have not been fully adopted in the medical industry. In addition, there are numerous additional challenges related to the development of products for this industry, such as ensuring tolerance to disinfection, biocompatibility, selecting compliant additives for processing, and more. This book enables product designers, polymer processing engineers, and manufacturing engineers to take advantage of the numerous upcoming developments in medical plastics, such as autoregulated volume-correction to achieve zero defect production or the development of ‘intelligent’ single use plastic products, and methods for sterile manufacturing which reduce the need for subsequent sterilization processes. Finally, as medical devices get smaller, the book discusses the challenges posed by miniaturization for injection molders, how to respond to these challenges, and the rapidly advancing prototyping technologies.
1. Introduction2. Design of Medical Devices - Now, and Future Trends3. Plastics in Biomedical Engineering4. Special Requirements within the Biomedical Field5. Future Trends for the Manufacturing of Plastic Single Use Products6. Individual Medical Products vs Mass Production
Subject Areas: Materials science [TGM], Plastics & polymers technology [TDCP], Biotechnology [TCB], Biomedical engineering [MQW]
