Tubular medical device manufacturers (stents, hypotubes, catheters, heart valve components and more) often face several challenges including generating an optimized cutting path, achieving the required part and feature tolerances, handling and managing tube material feedthrough, and minimizing process variability to produce volumes of highly reproducible, defect-free parts – all while under intense pressure to maximize profitability by producing as many parts per hour as possible.

Simply increasing the processing speeds is an obvious but often ineffective solution. As with driving a car, it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain your trajectory and stay in your lane while traversing bends and curves at high speeds. In tubular device manufacturing, excessive processing speed causes following errors that are detrimental to achieving required tolerances and making reproducible, defect-free parts in high volumes.

So, is it possible to achieve high throughput (and attractive profit margins) without sacrificing accuracy and reproducibility? Join our webinar to learn how to optimize a motion system to do exactly that! We will examine key features and attributes of high-precision linear and rotary stages – along with state-of-the-art controller capabilities – to achieve outstanding precision and speed simultaneously. Plus, discover helpful principles and techniques needed to join these devices together so that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Attendees will gain deeper insights into choosing and evaluating the most ideal precision motion equipment and suppliers so they can manufacture greater quantities of highly reproducible parts in less time while still maintaining excellent precision.

Attendees will learn:
1. How precision and throughput in tube-cutting processes is driven by linear and rotary stage design attributes
2. Why it matters how the tubular workpiece is held and manipulated
3. Which features and capabilities to look for in a motion controller to maximize processing speed while minimizing following error
4. The pros and cons of a dedicated, purpose-designed linear-rotary tube-cutting motion platform vs. a system assembled from individual components