The Design for Manufacturability (DFM) process is a key engineering practice employed by MRPC to ensure ease of manufacturing, improve quality, reduce costs and reduce time-to-market for medical devices.

Involving MRPC early in the design process helps identify opportunities or challenges throughout the manufacturing process before product launch. This allows for the best and most robust design at the outset of manufacturing launch, including support for prototyping, medical molding, sub-assembly, and assembly, all grounded in proven Design for Manufacturability principles.

MRPC provides a team complete with design, quality, tooling, processing and assembly knowledge.

This expertise will ensure delivery of world-class, robust products. Professionals from our supply chain, operations, and finance teams are also intimately involved in the process. Finally, MRPC engineers are on the cutting edge of new technology. We consistently evaluate and employ new technologies to improve manufacturing capabilities, including advancements in design for manufacturability strategies, and offer unique solutions to our customers’ most challenging products, including material selection support.

MRPC understands that speed to market is critical to our clients, and prototyping technologies are one way that we can help get your medical product to market sooner.

Prototyping medical devices is a crucial step to determine that a device is manufacturable, and that the medical device design meets the specified requirements. Prototyping also offers the opportunity to try different medical device manufacturing processes, and materials, before moving on to production.

Rapid prototyping has been a part of MRPC’s DNA for more than a decade. It offers our clients numerous benefits including:

  1. Reduced time to launch
  2. Accelerated quality approval
  3. Quicker part iteration process
  4. Reduction in technical risks
  5. Faster design samples and quoting process
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Medical Device Prototyping - 3D Printing

In addition to traditional prototyping processes, we offer rapid prototyping via a 3D printing machine. 3D printing enables us to create parts that can be used to check form, fit, and in some cases function.

Leveraging 3D printing for medical device prototyping also allows us to quickly create fixtures for assembly and inspection needs. We can determine fixture effectiveness before committing time and money to machined and fabricated fixturing, thereby supporting efficient Design for Manufacturability workflows.