Medical Device Manufacturing (MDM)

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Medical Devices

Medical Devices

Laser Precision

Advances in minimally-invasive procedures and robotic surgery are driving developments in MDM that often require increasingly miniaturized devices and/or device details. Laser machines offer both the precision and process versatility to support small batches with frequent changes as well as high volume automated runs of identical parts. And whether you’re cutting, welding, drilling, or marking in MDM, whatever the materials, our complete range of laser technologies means we have the optimum solution for your needs.

Medical Device Products

StarCut Tube SL

StarCut Tube

StarCut Tube Lasers are fully-automated, multi-axis CNC precision laser cutting machines for tubes and flat materials, including medical devices.

ExactCut 430

ExactCut 430 is a precision laser cutting system for automated processing of thin and thick metals and alloys, brittle materials like sapphire, PCD, and ceramics.

ExactMark 210 TL

ExactMark Laser Marking Systems

ExactMark laser marking systems include a motorized z-axis for automatic focusing as well as a range of optional motion axes and laser types.

PowerLine E Series

PowerLine

PowerLine Series lasers are ideal for system builders and production line integration for 3D marking, on-the-fly marking, engraving, and mark serialization.

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Manual Welding Systems

Explore manual and semi-automated tools that make the benefits of high-precision laser welding readily accessible.

AP 530

Fully automated laser system for marking and surface texturing of medical devices in both tubular and free-form shapes.

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Product Applications

Cutting Stents

Use our machines to cut any medical devices based on tubular blanks: from stents to TAVR valve scaffolds.

Cutting Insulin Pens

Cutting Insulin Pens

Choose fiber laser options for economic, precision cutting of temperature-sensitive materials (e.g., nitinol).

Laser Black Marking

Laser Black Marking

Produce corrosion-resistant black marks (e.g., for UDI, fiducials) using machines with picosecond lasers.

UV Plastics Marking

UV Plastics Marking

Create high-contrast marks in colored, transparent, and white plastics, without any thermal surface damage.

Welding Endoscopes

Welding Endoscopes

Get the optimum solution you need – from manual welding prototypes, up to fully automated CNC production.

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Laser Machines for Medical Device Manufacturing – XL Precision Technologies

XL Precision Technologies, a leader in medical device and component manufacturing, builds on strong growth by investing in more laser machines, including Coherent StarCut Tube cutting machines and Select manual welders.

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White Paper: Welding Thin Wires of Dissimilar Metals

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SVM Automatik

“Coherent built a laser marking engine that would deliver the required performance and reliability, meet cost targets, and interface with the rest of the marking system.""

— Teddy Schultz, Sales Director, Masentia A/S

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10 Manual Laser Welding Highlights - Performance Series

Performance Series Manual Welders enable you to make micron-level precision spot and seam welds on metal quickly and easily. Three different free-standing models offer various sized working chambers, numerous laser options, and even the capability for motorized part rotation.

StarCut Tube Stent Cutting System - Lab Tour with Roland Wölzlein

Take a glimpse into our StarCut Tube lab and production area and find out more about these fully-automated, multi-axis CNC machines for tubes and flat materials, including medical devices such as catheter shafts, stents, hypotubes, PTCA devices, TAVR, etc.

StarCut Tube SL High-Precision Laser Tube Cutting Machine

The laser cutting system StarCut Tube SL provides highest accuracy, superior reliability, and high performance when cutting complex medical devices such as stents, aortic valve replacements, or hypotubes.

Automated Processing of Hypotubes

The Coherent StarCut Tube offers maximum processing flexibility, and a small footprint.

Laser Black Marking White Paper

Picosecond lasers, which have already proven themselves in a variety of other demanding marking applications, appear poised to deliver the best solution for medical marking, and continued improvements in their reliability, performance and ease of use promise to make them more economically attractive as well.

Welding Thin Wires of Dissimilar Metals White Paper

Learn how to successfully accomplish the welding of wires as thin as 25.4 µm (0.001”) from nitinol and stainless steel in medical device manufacturing.

Laser Polymer Welding: Designing for Success

Laser welding enables precision joining of polymer parts, and is a cost-effective method over a wide range of production volumes.

Insulin Pen Marking — Anatomy of a Solution

Several marks must be placed around the circumference of this part with high spatial accuracy in order to ensure correct dosing.

Semi-Automated System Improves Medical Device Welding

Use of the Coherent Manual Welder at Microtech, Welding has increased their throughput, and the company now runs multiple systems in production.

Laser-Powered Tube Cutting Machine Creates Stents and More

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.”

Contract Manufacturer Profits from Versatile, Laser-Based Tube Cutting System

StarCut Tube delivers high precision, ease-of-use, and reliability, making it a cost-effective production tool for Micrometric Ltd.

Customer Success Stories

NIT

NIT, the only supplier of nitinol in Taiwan, brought precision laser cutting in-house to ensure high quality and fast turnaround for their contract manufacturing business.

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StarCut Tube meets our requirements for precision, stability, versatility, and ease of use/automation. It enables us to deliver parts with exceptional precision and edge quality.

Yi-An Chen VGM, Nitinol Innovative Technology (NIT), Kaohsiung, Taiwan

XL Precision

A leader in medical device and component manufacturing builds on strong growth by investing in more laser machines.

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The StarCut Tube is a great match for our growth strategy in multiple ways. It can deliver very high dimensional precision and fine cut quality, with both fiber and femtosecond lasers.

Tom Graham Managing Director, XL Precision Technologies Ltd

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