Medical extrusion providers are increasingly expected to produce complex, close-tolerance tubing that meets the functional design requirements of minimally invasive stent- and catheter ...

Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) has been around since the 1940s, yet it is unappreciated as a way of finding bad designs before parts get made. • Tolerances are a vital part of ...

Companies in nearly every industry save time and money when designers and manufacturers pin down product requirements and production capabilities early in development. Mechanical-tolerance ...

One of the challenges facing precision manufacturers and their medical device manufacturing partners is the increasing feature complexity of tight-tolerance parts. These complex geometries can result ...

How does a design go from the computer screen to something you hold in your hand? Not being able to fully answer this question is a huge risk in manufacturing because . One of the important tools ...

Composite parts never have the same dimensions as the tool on which they are processed. Mechanisms such as tool dimensional change during heat up and residual stress buildup within the part during ...

TROY -- Altair's HyperWorks Partner Alliance announced a new partnership with Troy-based Dimensional Control Systems Inc. The company's product, 3DCS Variation Analyst Multi-CAD, performs tolerance ...

To design a reasonable dimensional tolerance of a transmission shaft, the higher product quality while lower manufacturing cost must be considered. This paper provides a mathematical model and a ...

Photochemical machining is a versatile, cost-effective option for producing complex or tiny components form sheet stock. Edited by Jim Benes, associate editor The photochemical machining process, also ...