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Halblech,
Precision Saw wins Medical Design Excellence Award
Bihler cited for its role as supplier
Halblech 09.04.2007 – Bihler Weissenbach today announced that the Precision Saw of Stryker Instruments has received a 2007 Medical Design Excellence Award. As expert supplier of Stryker Instruments, Bihler Weissenbach also enjoys the winning status of this premier awards program for the medical technology community.
Asking Bihler Weissenbach to build a tooling for the manufacture of the top and bottom part of a Precision Saw, Stryker Instruments confronted the tool expert at the EUROBLECH 2004 in Hanover. In the following months Bihler Weissenbach developed a tooling which consists of three modules. In order to change between the two parts only some punches of the second module have to be exchanged. The first and third module remain the same. The tooling is mounted in the 60 t press of a Bihler COMBITEC CC1, which was installed at Bihler Weissenbach for the manufacture of the parts. Following the manufacturing process the top and bottom parts are manually inserted into racks and refined. In a subsequent process they are hardened. At Stryker Ireland the surface is polished and in Switzerland the final assembly (laser welding) is carried out.
The Medical Design Excellence Awards competition is organized and presented by Canon Communications LLC (Los Angeles) and is the only awards program that exclusively recognizes contributions and advances in the design of medical products. Entries are evaluated on the basis of their design and engineering features, including innovative use of materials, user-related functions that improve healthcare delivery and change traditional medical attitudes or practices, features that provide enhanced benefits to the patient, and the ability of the product development team to overcome design and engineering challanges so that the product meets its clinical objectives.
"We are honored to be recognized by the MDEA judges," said Martin Niklas, managing director at Bihler Weissenbach. "The Precision Saw is now being used in several healthcare clinics and offers decisive advantages for operations."
Asking Bihler Weissenbach to build a tooling for the manufacture of the top and bottom part of a Precision Saw, Stryker Instruments confronted the tool expert at the EUROBLECH 2004 in Hanover. In the following months Bihler Weissenbach developed a tooling which consists of three modules. In order to change between the two parts only some punches of the second module have to be exchanged. The first and third module remain the same. The tooling is mounted in the 60 t press of a Bihler COMBITEC CC1, which was installed at Bihler Weissenbach for the manufacture of the parts. Following the manufacturing process the top and bottom parts are manually inserted into racks and refined. In a subsequent process they are hardened. At Stryker Ireland the surface is polished and in Switzerland the final assembly (laser welding) is carried out.
The Medical Design Excellence Awards competition is organized and presented by Canon Communications LLC (Los Angeles) and is the only awards program that exclusively recognizes contributions and advances in the design of medical products. Entries are evaluated on the basis of their design and engineering features, including innovative use of materials, user-related functions that improve healthcare delivery and change traditional medical attitudes or practices, features that provide enhanced benefits to the patient, and the ability of the product development team to overcome design and engineering challanges so that the product meets its clinical objectives.
"We are honored to be recognized by the MDEA judges," said Martin Niklas, managing director at Bihler Weissenbach. "The Precision Saw is now being used in several healthcare clinics and offers decisive advantages for operations."