SME Forms Bioengineering Tech Group

摘要

Manufacturing engineers have been employed for decades to manufacture medical devices, working with biomedical product design engineers and physicians. In 1973, I was a tool and mold designer for a small medical company that molded and extruded medical-grade silicone rubber. We manufactured disks to be placed in the cages of human heart-valve assemblies, blood-puncture sites, blood-tubing sets with plastic luer fittings, implantable cannula blood-connecting tubes for kidney dialysis machines, and kidney-dialysis filters that used medical-grade PVC tubing. The company also manufactured battery-operated portable blood-infusion roller pumps and blood-bypass pumps to be used in heart surgery. Originally, the company manufactured hydrocephalus valves, which relieve excessive fluid within the cranium.