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Title: ASTM-F42 and Its Impact on Additive Manufacturing in Medical Devices and Implants (YOU Must be AN SME member to view this content.)
Presenter: Shane Collins, Technical Director, Powder Bed Fusion Consulting
Synopsis: This webinar reviews the ASTM-F42 standard and its impact on additive manufacturing in medical devices and implants. Attendees will get a general idea of the standards being developed and the benefits it would have for manufacturers and consumers. In addition, the webinar will review the projected timeline for establishment of different standards, specialized standards for medical applications of AM components or use of medical CAD for design and fabrication of implantable components. It will also attempt to address how the standards are eventually intended to impact the FDA approval and reimbursement process. |
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Title: Laser Micromachining 101 (YOU Must be AN SME member to view this content.)
Presenter: Ronald Schaeffer, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, PhotoMachining Inc.
Synopsis: This webinar is a comprehensive look at laser technology as applied to precision micromachining. A brief background discussion on laser history, technology and definition of important terms are presented. Available laser sources are compared and contrasted including CO2, excimer, Nd:YAG, fiber and short pulse lasers. IR and UV material/photon interaction, basic optical components and system integration are also crucial to getting good processing results and these are all examined in detail. Real applications from the medical, microelectronics, aerospace and other fields are also presented. |
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Title: The Silent Industrial Revolution: Additive Layer Manufacturing and its Transition into Nanomanufacturing
Presenter: Boris Fritz, Engineer Senior Technical Specialist, Northrop Grumman Corporation Air Combat Systems
Synopsis: Learn more about the rapidly changing, relatively new field of 3-D printing/rapid prototyping/additive manufacturing and how it is being used at Northrop Grumman. You'll learn about some of NGC's in-house equipment and how it is used for tooling, assembly fit checks, unique applications and first-flight articles. You'll also find out about the remarkable future of this technology and its transition into manomanufacturing. You've heard about nanotechnology, but here's your chance to learn a unique approach to this technology from an additive manufacturing perspective that you won’t find in books, or anywhere else for that matter! |
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Title: Remote Scanning – Applications & Technologies (YOU Must be AN SME member to view this content.)
Presenter: Redmond P. Aylward, President, and Mustafa Coskun, Product Manager, Cambridge Technology Inc.
Synopsis: During this webinar, the following will be discussed: galvo scanning, three-axis scanning, z-axis focusing and methods, and material processing applications of remote scanning. |
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Title: Three-Dimensional Surface Measurement Improves Precision Component Design and Production (YOU Must be AN SME member to view this content.)
Presenter: Erik Novak, Director of Technology Development, Bruker Nano Surfaces Division
Synopsis: This webinar outlines the generation and correlation of 2-D and 3-D results, as well as the challenges and opportunities associated with migration to 3-D measurements. A variety of examples will be presented illustrating the use of 3-D metrology for both design and high-volume process control. |
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Title: Laser Plastic Welding (YOU Must be AN SME member to view this content.)
Presenter: Josh Brown, Marketing Development Representative, LPKF Laser & Electronics, Plastics Welding Division, and Sean Flowers, Applications Engineer, Edison Welding Institute
Synopsis: Laser plastic welding has been around for decades, but with an ever increasing demand for smaller, more intricate and sensitive devices, laser plastic welding is growing to become a major player in plastics joining methods. Find out what laser plastic welding has to offer and why it is a driving force behind innovative devices in the medical and automotive industries. |
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Title: Direct Digital Manufacturing of a Forearm Crutch Grip (YOU Must be AN SME member to view this content.)
Presenter: Adam McLaughlin, Jordan Tye, Lisabet Sizer and Mark Damplo, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Synopsis: In this presentation, Adam McLaughlin, Jordan Tye, Lisabet Sizer and Mark Damplo from the University of Massachusetts Lowell explain the process by which they came up with, prototyped and developed a forearm crutch grip using the direct digital manufacturing (DDM) process. The crutch features a custom handgrip, specially made to fit the user's hand, integrated iPod controls to allow for easier walking while listening to music and an integrated flashlight. Their design won first place in the 2011 Design for Direct Digital Manufacturing Competition. |
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Title: Laser Heat Treating — Hardening of Metals (YOU Must be AN SME member to view this content.)
Presenter: David Krattley, Vice President of Sales, Laser Equipment Division, Preco Inc.
Synopsis: During this webinar, attendees learn about laser heat treating (hardening) and how it compares to competing non-laser processes, which materials are well suited for laser heat treatment (hardening), and special optics and techniques for implementing this technology. An overview of the equipment required for laser heat treating (hardening) is also provided. |
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Title: 3D Metrology Hardware Review (YOU Must be AN SME member to view this content.)
Presenter: Angelo Beraldin, Senior Researcher, National Research Council of Canada, and Louis-Jérôme Doyon, Sales Manager, Americas, InnovMetric Software
Synopsis: This presentation is a summary of the main metrology hardware devices from an unbiased point of view. Starting with a quick overview of the well-known tactile technologies, the webinar then concentrates on the basics of the more recent noncontact technologies. The pros and cons of each noncontact technology are presented. Finally, the presentation will look at differentiators that should be evaluated before acquiring a device, and highlights will include the importance of benchmarking the different products. |
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Title: Industrial Computed Tomography – CT Scanning (YOU Must be AN SME member to view this content.)
Presenter: Stephanie Masse, Senior Program Manager, Jesse Garant & Associates
Synopsis: This presentation will provide a basic understanding of industrial CT scanning: what it is, some advantages and how CT scanning can be utilized to improve quality, save time and money. An overview will include the types of scanners and inspection/analysis techniques available. |
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Title: Tissue Reconstruction & Hydrophobic Polymers for Medical Use (YOU Must be AN SME member to view this content.)
Presenter: Paulette Spencer, DDS, PhD, University of Kansas
Synopsis: The demand in the United States for materials that can be used to restore and improve tissue or joint function is staggering. Replacement materials are used in millions of dental-oral-craniofacial procedures, ranging from tooth restorations to major reconstruction of hard and soft tissues. This webinar will focus on efforts to develop new materials that are compatible with the wet oral environment and resistant to the salivary enzymes that degrade polymeric-based biomaterials. |
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Title: Laser Processing in the Medical Industry 101 (YOU Must be AN SME member to view this content.)
Presenter: Geoff Shannon, PhD, Market and Application Development Manager, Miyachi Unitek Corp.
Synopsis: Laser processing has been widely adopted within the medical industry, and utilizing laser technology offers unique capabilities to meet manufacturing challenges. This webinar provides an overview of laser processing for the medical industry, and it will cover the key benefits of the following, including many application examples: microwelding, marking and fine cutting. |
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Title: Atomic Force Microscopy: Enabling Characterization of Biological Structures and Forces at the Nanoscale (YOU Must be AN SME member to view this content.)
Presenter: Andrea Slade, PhD, Veeco Instruments
Synopsis: This webinar will focus on the application of atomic force microscopy (AFM) for nanoscale characterization of biological structures. AFM facilitates high-resolution, 3-D imaging and highly sensitive measurements of interaction forces of biomolecules and biomolecular complexes under near-physiological conditions. As a surface characterization technique, AFM can provide researchers with insights into not only how biomolecules interact with each other but also how their interactions with surfaces, such as a biomaterial, can affect structure and behavior both in situ and without sample modification. |
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Title: Micro Molding with Resorbable Materials
Presenter: Donna Bibber, Micro Engineering Solutions LLC
Synopsis: As implantable and resorbable molded parts approach micro or nano in size, even a toothpick-sized runner is still too large and too costly. Resorbable raw material costs are between $3,000–$22,000/lb. This webinar explores design for manufacturing solutions for micromolding with resorbable polymers and creating net zero material losses in runner and sprue scrap. In addition, it will explore polymer property changes induced by shear stress through near micron-sized gates, humidity control for extremely small shot sizes and integrating macro to microtechnologies to produce near-micron level geometry in precision, micromold components. |
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Title: Micro Molding: Differences Beyond Size to Traditional Molding
Presenter: Carol M.F. Barry, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Synopsis: Micromolding involves more than making things smaller. This webinar will provide an overview of existing micromolding technologies including injection molding, insert molding and two-shot molding. With application for both microparts, and micro and nano features, discussion will focus on process parameters and materials, including effects of wall thickness, improving filling, shot size, processing temperatures and other processing conditions. |
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Title: Scientific Molding High Cavity Hot Runner Systems (YOU Must be AN SME member to view this content.)
Presenter: Terry Schwenk, Process & Design Technologies LLC
Synopsis: In recent years, higher and higher cavity tools have been constructed, and more demand for better-quality parts produced from these tools has a high emphasis on mold balancing. Because the majority of these tools incorporate hot runners, the perception has focused on the hot runner as the direct cause for the in-balanced fill of cavities; hot runner suppliers were therefore scrambling to come up with a better hot runner solution. Fueled by industry awareness that inside corner shear effects cause different melt viscosity in cold runner systems and are direct contributors to in-balance fill has resulted in the conclusion that the hot runner is the root cause of all the balancing issues associated with cavity fill. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Although this phenomenon does exist in cold runner tooling and to some degree in hot runners, it is grossly over exaggerated and is only one of many factors that affect balance fill. |
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Title: Mechanical Factors in Arterial Disease – Aging, Hypertension and Arterial Elasticity (YOU Must be AN SME member to view this content.)
Presenter: Stephen Greenwald, PhD, University of London
Synopsis: This webinar explores the way in which the structure and composition of large arteries near the heart change with age, thus making them stiffer and how this increase in stiffness leads to high blood pressure, the main cause of death in the developed world. It discusses possible biomechanical reasons for blood pressure variability in populations and concludes with a brief description of a new treatment based on manipulating arterial mechanical properties. |
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Title: Multi-Microfluidics Array Printing of High Resolution Construct for Tissue Engineering (YOU Must be AN SME member to view this content.)
Presenter: Jack Zhou, PhD, Drexel University
Synopsis: Electrowetting based microfluidics array printing is a new solid freeform technology that can meet the challenges of high resolution (less than 10 mm) manufacture of hydrogel scaffolds, cell placement, growth factor delivery, and vascularization for soft tissue engineering. The technology of the solid freeform fabrication (SFF) system used in research conducted at Drexel University will be presented. |
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Title: 3D-DOCTOR for Medical Modeling (YOU Must be AN SME member to view this content.)
Presenter: Ted Wu, PhD, Able Software Corp.
Synopsis: Wu provides information on 3D-DOCTOR software and its applications for medical modeling and 3-D image processing, such as re-slicing, registration and image fusion. PDF | Audio |