Overcoming the Medical Device Miniaturization Wall

Motors and motion control components continue to shrink. The miniaturization trend allows manufacturers to install motors and motion control into smaller and smaller form factors. When components come down to size, signals travel shorter distances within devices, which leads to faster performance speeds. This is particularly important in medical devices and applications. Yet users need to learn the architecture of miniaturization in order to make it effective. There is a wide range of miniature components for medical devices. (Image source: maxon motors) Design News is offering a free webinar on the topic, The Miniaturization of Medical Devices, on Thursday, May 28 at 2:00 PM Eastern. The one-hour webinar will be presented by Jim Beretta, president of Customer Attraction. Jim will be joined by Aaron Johnson, VP of marketing and customer strategy at Accumold, and David Henderson, CEO of New Scale Technologies. During the webinar, the presenters will explain developments in the miniaturization of medical devices, and they will also assess when miniaturization is feisible and when it reaches beyond the capabilities of micro archetecture. The Architecture of Motor, Sensing, Drive and Control, Electronics, and Mechatronic Miniaturization For miniature devices to work effectively, micro motion module architecture must be aligned to the overall product requirements. Henderson noted the requirements of a procedure and the capabilities of micro components do not always line up. &acir...
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