Medical Device

Whether you assemble an entire, complex device for a surgical procedure, or just one of its parts, Crane Engineering’s Materials and Process Engineering team can be of assistance. The SEM/EDS, FT-IR, and metallurgical testing techniques can confirm the material composition and structural properties of your device. The chemistry lab’s GC/MS can analyze extracts of your polymeric materials for organic and ionic compounds like plasticizers, residual monomers, or leachable ions. Or perhaps you have a need to reverse engineer the material in a competitor’s product or identify a foreign material on customer returns. Crane Engineering will use the techniques listed above and more to be sure you have the answers you are looking for.

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  Identification of a coating layer on a comparable guidewire product.

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  Cross-section of a composite section of tubing using a metallographic stereoscope. The thickness of the constituent component can be measured using image processing software.

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  SEM micrograph of a cardiovascular stent. The integration of the engergy dispersive x-ray detector with the SEM allows element analysis to be preformed any region of the stent surface.