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Delta Pacific Products - Tiny and precise Molded parts


Manufacturing , Medical Device
07/07/2014

Speed 5 / Price 5 / Quality 5

Delta Pacific is our certify vendor for our catheter molded Tip. Delta Pacific did a nice jobs of molding a tiny Pebax catheter tip for our assembly. They have great customer service and all the support engineer are knowledgeable their molding service. We were working with them to get the molded tip through FAI and after we never have any issue reorder for production quantity.

Strengths: Tiny molding part

Needs to improve: None

Tyco Electronics - Great source for heat Shrink tubing


Manufacturing , Medical Device
07/07/2014

Speed 5 / Price 5 / Quality 5

Our company use the Heat Shrink Tubing from Tyco Raychem. The Polyolefin heat shrink tubing is cheap and provide in large spool. Also their local sale prep are very nice and friendly when request for samples of different heat shrink tubes for process development.

Strengths: Heat Shrink Tubing Raychem

Needs to improve: None

Dymax - Great product for bonding strength, fast curing time and easy to use


Manufacturing , Medical Device
07/07/2014

Speed 5 / Price 5 / Quality 5

Dymax is the industry standard for UV adhesive and light curing system. I had use Dymax UV adhesive for catheter assembly throughout my career. Dymax UV adhesive is fast curing, less messy and stable process for bonding strength. Also the EFD dispenser and light cure system are so easy to use in production and R&D work. Great production for bonding plastic/metal component in the catheter assembly.

Strengths: UV Curing Adhesive and equipments

Needs to improve: None

MK Precision - On time and quick turn around time


Manufacturing , Medical Device
07/07/2014

Speed 5 / Price 5 / Quality 5

I had used MK Precision for machining parts on fixture use for production lines and small stainless steel parts use for our finished catheter devices. MK Precision prevision is doing a nice jobs of providing all machine parts for us. All parts provided met all the inspection dimensions that called out per drawing and all components shipped with certification per requirements.

Strengths: Metal component parts and precision

Needs to improve: None

Phelps Dodge - Phelps Dodge Review


Manufacturing , Medical Device
06/09/2014

Speed 5 / Price 5 / Quality 5

I used to work on the RF catheter and Phelps Dodge was our main supplier for the the wire and cable that we used on our devices. Phelps Dodge provided quality wire and cables for our catheter assembly. We never had any issue with the Hypot test on the wire or cables. They were pretty good provide materials CER along with the shipment. We were pleased with their services.

Strengths: Wire and cables

Needs to improve: None

Mitutoyo - Mitutoyo Review


Manufacturing , Medical Device
05/28/2014

Speed 5 / Price 5 / Quality 5

Our company use a lot of the measurements tools from Mitutoyo such as micrometer, snap gage, calipers and other gages for inspection and in production area. These tools are precision and easy to use as long as it's calibrated. Great tool to have around on my daily work.

Strengths: Great tool for measurement

Needs to improve: None

Cintas Document Management - Cintas Service Review


Manufacturing , Medical Device
05/28/2014

Speed 5 / Price 5 / Quality 5

Cintas is the supplier for our cleanroom uniforms. They always come one a week as schedule time to pick up the dirty gowning/boots and refill with the clean one. Their service is good and reliable.

Strengths: Reliable service

Needs to improve: None

Makita - Makita Review


Manufacturing , Medical Device
05/23/2014

Speed 5 / Price 5 / Quality 5

We use the Makita hand drill on one of our assembly process. It's pretty reliable hand drill that we depend on with the longer batteries life and small to carry. I would recommend this for professional and personal use.

Strengths: Reliable Power Tool

Needs to improve: High Price

Professional Plastics - Professional Plastics Review


Manufacturing , Medical Device
05/19/2014

Speed 5 / Price 5 / Quality 5

Professional Plastics is our qualified supplier for raw materials plastics. We purchase, Delrin material for fabrication of fixture and tooling use on production and ABS sheets for machine component. They have good services and we never have any problem with them. We always get materials on time and with all the material certifications provide with the shipments.

Strengths: Wide selection of raw materials on plastics

Needs to improve: None

Mediflex Surgical Products - Mediflex Review


Manufacturing , Medical Device
05/19/2014

Speed 5 / Price 5 / Quality 5

Our company used Medifiex as the supplier for Laparoscopic Instruments tool that we use for bench test in R&D lab and for animal study. Mediflex carry great quality reusable Laparoscopic instruments and we never have any problem of using their tools.

Strengths: Medical supply tools

Needs to improve: None

Bay Advanced Technologies - Bay Advanced Tech Review


Manufacturing , Medical Device
05/19/2014

Speed 5 / Price 5 / Quality 5

I use Bay Advanced Technologies as the supplier for pneumatic fluid control, fitting, linear motion for fixture design. Their sale prep are great when I call for pricing and availability of parts. They are knowledgeable on the parts and give good advise on accessories components, and fitting adapters. One thing I like the most that they are local and I can pickup parts on the same day of order.

Strengths: Great source for fluid control parts

Needs to improve: None

Advanced Extrusion Svc - Advance extrusion review


Manufacturing , Medical Device
05/14/2014

Speed 5 / Price 5 / Quality 5

Our R&D team always order the tubing extrusion from Advance Extrusion because Ziggy's team can manage small run of extrusion in difference configurations and sizes. They are great for R&D use and hold up to tight tolerance for OQ validation when we order tubing on the min/max sizes.

Strengths: Tube extrusion

Needs to improve: None

MSC Industrial Direct Inc - MSC Industrial Supply review


Manufacturing , Medical Device
05/13/2014

Speed 5 / Price 5 / Quality 5

MSC insductrial is our qualified supplier for purchase machine tooling. We have been used them for years and never have any problems ordering, shipping. We always get the order tooling on time. They have great customer service and great policy for returning.

Strengths: wise selection of tooling

Needs to improve: None

Santa Clara Plating Co - Santa Clara Plating


Manufacturing , Medical Device
05/13/2014

Speed 5 / Price 5 / Quality 5

Our company use Santa Clara Plating for Passivation our components such as hypotube, stainless steel shaft and other components. We like it because it's local and quick turn around. If we drop parts early in the morning then we can pickup parts the same day. Great price by lot charge and we never have any problem with packing list or certification. Great customer service too

Strengths: Fast Turn around and great price

Needs to improve: None

Bimba Manufacturing Co - Bimba Air Cylinder Review


Manufacturing , Medical Device
05/09/2014

Speed 5 / Price 5 / Quality 5

I use the Bimba Air cylinder on some of my fixtures design for holding for pressing components on the assembly process. Quality pneumatic Air Cylinder with low maintenance. Also great support on Bimba website I can down load the solid model of the air cylinder as selected. This save me a lots of time to create the solid model for my assembly drawing.

Strengths: Linear Air Cylinder

Needs to improve: None

EFD Inc - EFD dispenser Review


Manufacturing , Medical Device
05/09/2014

Speed 5 / Price 5 / Quality 5

One of our bonding process was inconsistent on the Tensile Strength due to the manually process of applying loctite at the bonding joint. Then we purchased EFD dispenser system and re-validate the bonding process. Our Tensile Strength variation were consistent with a small standard deviation. The bonding process is reliable and repeatable to meet the 95/95% confident and reliability. Also the operators are please to EFD Dispenser System. It's easy to use and reduce the mess on the production floor. Just it setup to the right pressure and time.

Strengths: Great Process Equipment

Needs to improve: None

MicroLumen, Inc. - MicroLumen Review


Manufacturing , Medical Device
05/09/2014

Speed 5 / Price 5 / Quality 5

I was working on the RF catheter that use polyimide braided shaft. We had high scrap rate for the Polyimide Shaft failed High Pot Testing. Then we used Microlumen as the supplier for our Polyimide Braided Shaft. The scrap rate reduced substantially. Microlumen provided good quality Polyimide Braided Shaft.

Strengths: Polyimide Braided Shaft

Needs to improve: None

Farlow's Scientific Glassblowing - Farlow's Glass Mold


Manufacturing , Medical Device
05/09/2014

Speed 5 / Price 5 / Quality 5

I used the tip glass mold from Farlow's for quick prototype device build. Farlow is a good place to order glass molds in difference configurations to test out the concept because it's cheap and quick turn around time. Their have excellent service and the molds they made are pretty accurate compare to the print.

Strengths: custom glass molds

Needs to improve: None

Zebra Technologies - Zebra Thermal Printer


Manufacturing , Medical Device
05/07/2014

Speed 5 / Price 5 / Quality 5

I use zebra thermal printer to print labels for our finished device (Box and pouch, shipper box labels). Once the label software is setup then printing label is easy. Zebra printer is work with different label software such as label view, nice label and other. Zebra printer is easy to use and low maintenance.

Strengths: Thermal Printer

Needs to improve: None

Nelson Laboratories Inc - Nelson Lab Review


Manufacturing , Medical Device
05/07/2014

Speed 5 / Price 5 / Quality 5

Our company use Nelson Lab for Sterilization Validation Test and Shelf life study. Their customer services are great and helpful to advise customer on their testing. Also they are committed and deliverable the test report on the time line.

Strengths: Sterilization Validation House

Needs to improve: None

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