Vapor Degreasing: A New Answer for Critical Cleaning Vapor degreasing is a proven, water-free cleaning technology that delivers fast, consistent results while reducing the risks of bioburden on the components. Jay Tourigny, MicroCare VP and a specialist in critical cleaning, explains the process
Vapor Degreasing for Medical Devices — How It Works MicroCare™ Medical delivers the high performance cleaning for medical devices using a process called “vapor degreasing.” This water-free process is a superior choice for medical devices because the process easily cleans parts of any size and geometry. Cleaning is fast and gentle, and the parts come out clean, dry and cool to the touch. Perhaps … Continued
Swellex and Duraglide Demonstrations This video was captured at the MD&M Show. It features MicroCare VP Jay Tourigny explaining two important processes: (a) reducing friction between the components in medical devices, and (b) speeding assembly time of medical devices that use silicone tubing or polyurethane tubing. A good introductory video to these two product groups and the benefits they … Continued
Silicone Swelling Technology Speeds Assembly of Medical Devices It can be time-consuming to insert silicone tubing over barbed fittings during the assembly of medical devices. This process can be simplified and made easier — in some cases, dramatically — with modern silicone tube swelling chemistry. Jay Tourigny, MicroCare Vice President, explains.
MicroCare Medical Leads the Way on Worker Safety and Regulatory Compliance MicroCare Medical and our Critical Cleaning Lab lead the way on worker safety regulations and company compliance with all the changing rules. Still using smelly, old-style solvents? Or wasteful, high-pressure aerosol sprays? Are your solvent REACH and F-Gas compliant? Struggling with VOCs in today’s low-VOC world? Or slow, expensive and energy-hungry aqueous cleaners? It’s time … Continued
Lab & Analytical Services from MicroCare It’s very difficult for a company to fine-tune their critical cleaning processes without the skilled guidance and expertise of an analytical lab. The Cleaning Lab at MicroCare is a resource available to every MicroCare customer. With Dr. Wells Cunningham at the helm and a team of cleaning experts running the equipment and analyzing the results, … Continued
Four Distinctive Products to Improve Your Medical Devices MicroCare Medical is completely and exclusively focused on the needs of the medical device industry. Our products help these companies make their products faster, at lower cost, and with higher levels of performance. To this end, MicroCare Medical has four distinct product offerings (product groups, really) that can be used in different ways to help … Continued
Duraglide™ PTFE Lubricant Coatings Improve the Performance of Medical Devices Friction between the components in medical devices will degrade the performance of those devices. Jay Tourigny, MicroCare VP, explains the method and the results of improved non-silicone lubricants on medical devices.
Duraglide™ Dry Lubricant Features and Benefits; a Video Demo The ready-to-use Duraglide™ Dry Lubricant works extremely well on high-speed, high-volume mechanical assembly operations. In this product, PTFE particles are suspended in an nonflammable carrier fluid. Together, they produce a smooth, even coating that minimizes friction between moving parts and reduce actuation forces by 25% – 30%. Duraglide™ Dry Lubricants are ISO 10993 certified medical-grade … Continued
Duraglide™ Dry Film Lubricants Prevent Problems with Stacked Tolerances on Medical Devices “Stacked tolerances” is a term that describes a production problem in the engineering of medical devices when the cumulative effects of allowable variation aggregate towards a single vector or dimension. Normally, variances are expected to “average out” towards a design ideal. However, it is common — especially with injection-molded parts — to see tolerances gradually … Continued
