Overview
Designing and manufacturing precision steerable catheters for complex anatomies requires smart catheter design. Precision engineering plays a key role in designing highperformance catheters with components such as lasercut hypotubes, reinforced shafts, and integrated pull-wire mechanisms, to meet key steerability, torque response, and deflection control requirements.
VitalPath manufactures custom, highly complex catheter solutions for medical device companies, specializing in meeting customers’ most challenging requirements such as single or multidirectional deflection, pushability, kink resistance, and torque response. VitalPath draws on its extensive experience and technical expertise with in-house laser processes to optimize the entire product life cycle, from concept to reality, accelerating time-to-market in complex catheters for the cardiovascular, electrophysiology, neurovascular, peripheral vascular, and structural heart markets.
Context
In this moderated discussion, panelists discussed key considerations in high-performance catheter design.
Key Takeaways
Design for Manufacturing is a crucial first step in developing a manufacturable product.
In the medical device space, it is critical to do things both quickly and affordably. Any component that VitalPath works on, whether for internal or external customers, is brought through a DFM (Design for Manufacturing) process. DFM offers an important opportunity to determine and resolve potential issues in the manufacturing process, to ensure the most optimal design to maximize the chances of getting the device to market.
The DFM process starts with a thorough review of all requirements, design inputs, and specifications, as well as the customer’s desired outcomes for any known constraints on the device design. This allows the team to make engineering-based decisions about any compromises that need to be made to ensure a product design that can be manufactured without sacrificing key requirements.
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