Medical Metrology as a Part of the Whole

Article from manufactoring engineering, MARCH 2012 issue

Compared to many other industries, medical device manufacturing has unique concerns about patient welfare, with lingering thoughts of liability. "These concerns drive extreme process control" explains Frank Powell, product manager for and measurement equipment. “We have installed systems that use a 2-D bar code on each part to relate gaging data, what operation it was measured on, what the measurements were, and even which machine it was made on and who was the operator at the time,” he says...

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