Medical Device Industry

Qualify the usability and fitness-for-purpose of your medical devices

Conform to industry standards and achieve regulatory compliance e.g. AAMI, ASTM, EN, FDA, ISO.

Do you know the precise force or torque required to?

• Actuate your syringe plunger
• Insert and extract your hypodermic needle
• Remove your inhaler's cap
• Calibrate your infusion pump
• Peel open your devices' packaging

Our test solutions for medical testing applications include:

•  3-point bend testing of needles
• Actuation force testing of metered dose inhalers and pen injectors
• Actuation force / torque and tactile feedback of electrical and electronic controls
• Adhesive / peel testing of
  • Adhesive dressings and tapes
  • Hydrocolloids
  • Seals on sterile packaging
• Calibration of syringe pump occlusion monitoring
• Hearing aid component testing
• Mechanical assessment and failure analysis of surgical implants
•  Sharpness, insertion, extraction and penetration force testing of:
  • Needles
  • Scalpel blades
•  Syringe plunger actuation and "travel" force assessment
•  Tear strength of tapes and medical grade paper
•  Tensile and materials strength testing of:
  • Bandages and dressings
  • Condoms
  • Dental materials
  • Joint strength on connectors
  • Medical tubing and guidewires used in catheters and cannulation of vessels
  • Needle hubs on lancets, syringes and winged infusion sets
  • Medical pouches and infusion solution bags
  • Prostheses
  • Springs
  • Surgical gloves and masks
  • Suture material
•  Torque testing of:
  • Hub-luer connectors and valves
  • Caps on drug delivery devices such as inhalers and pen injectors