Precision joining solutions for assembling medical devices that meet the exacting demands of the medical industries.
Emerson offers an array of Branson plastic welding solutions, including ultrasonic and laser welding, to improve the efficiency, quality, and output of compliant medical devices. Fast-cycling and automation-friendly, our solutions join plastics without the added complexity and cost of fasteners, adhesives, or snap-fit joint designs. From cost-efficient welding solutions for PPE, syringes and infection control products to high-purity bonding for IV bags, dialysis filters, or critical care items
Every day, millions of patients await the results of laboratory, point-of-care, and at-home diagnostic tests, trusting in the availability, purity and precision of test articles used to capture, contain, and process diagnostic samples. While our laser welding solutions enable production of critical high-volume, high-purity fluid-handling components, our ultrasonic solutions are used to produce test strips, collection swabs, and complete, sealed test packages.
Longer lifespans mean aging populations and greater need for affordable renal dialysis. Our laser, ultrasonic, PulseStaking and infrared welding technologies provide joining and sealing solutions for hemodialysis filters, dry powder and fluid cartridges, tubing connections, and process flow-control components. These technologies are also critical for building and assembling the plastic manifolds, filters, tubing and flow controls that make affordable, at-home peritoneal dialysis possible.
Medically precise, yet portable, pocket-sized inhalers bring fast relief to asthma, COPD, and allergy patients. These inhalers, as well as CPAP nebulizers used for sleep apnea, rely on lightweight, ultrasonically welded plastic assemblies to dose and deliver aerosols, medications, or conditioned air supplies to relieve patient symptoms. Medical manufacturers can rely on Branson joining technologies to deliver those assemblies with validated and traceable quality data.
High-volume production of high-purity drug delivery devices, including IV fluid and medication bags, infusion kits, syringe filters, ports, and tube connections are vital to storing, protecting and delivering drugs, fluids, blood and blood products to millions of patients daily. Many products rely on ultrasonic welds and particulate-free laser welds and seals. New “safe” syringe designs rely on ultrasonically welded safety caps to actuate after injections to prevent accidental needle sticks.
Our technologies bond the plastic housings, handles, and covers of electrosurgical pencils, surgical robots, and flexible scopes. These not only make them easy to grip, but also to sterilize, since there are no fasteners or surface holes to conceal contaminants. Laser welds join high-purity connections used for cardiopulmonary bypass lines and filters, while ultrasonic welds join the plastics essential to surgical trocars, staplers, and wound drainage bags and bottles.
Combining exceptional speed with high quality, automated ultrasonic welders cut, seam, and “stitch” medical-grade nonwoven fabrics into a range of personal protective equipment from high-performance filtering respirators to medical-surgical masks, gowns and drapes. With a different mix of nonwoven materials, ultrasonic welds produce absorbent, personal hygiene, and infection control products with strong, hermetic seals and consistent quality.
Emerson aftermarket services offer evaluation, technical and emergency support, spare parts, preventive maintenance, and calibration for the life cycle of Branson equipment.
Speed is crucial, quick diagnosis is a critical first step to getting effective treatment and most importantly prevent the disease from spreading. In vitro tests can be performed anywhere a Patients Point of Care is delivered, in laboratories, health care facilities or even in your home.
Customers often face a challenge to have the most up to date and current information of their Plant assets. Very often, movement of assets in the plant or across factories in a different geographical location means, we can lose sight of the asset information or the current information may be outdated. Knowing the health of your assets and its lifecycle is an important factor for the maintenance and OPEX planning in every organization.
A proactive maintenance and calibration plan of your equipment and processes minimizes the risk and uncertainties of measurement, optimizing equipment effectiveness, all while minimizing downstream delays and defects.
Speed is crucial, quick diagnosis is a critical first step to getting effective treatment and most importantly prevent the disease from spreading. In vitro tests can be performed anywhere a Patients Point of Care is delivered, in laboratories, health care facilities or even in your home.
Customers often face a challenge to have the most up to date and current information of their Plant assets. Very often, movement of assets in the plant or across factories in a different geographical location means, we can lose sight of the asset information or the current information may be outdated. Knowing the health of your assets and its lifecycle is an important factor for the maintenance and OPEX planning in every organization.
A proactive maintenance and calibration plan of your equipment and processes minimizes the risk and uncertainties of measurement, optimizing equipment effectiveness, all while minimizing downstream delays and defects.
Case Study
The move toward polypropylene and polyethylene in medical devices requires new manufacturing and assembly solutions such as ultrasonic and laser welding
Case Study
A food safety manufacturer needed its testing device to perform safely while providing 100% contamination protection. Using ultrasonic welding, Branson created a strong bond to keep contamination out, allowing the product to launch quickly to industry approval and recognition.
Case Study
When heat sealing couldn’t successfully seal a microfiltration membrane used in bioscience research, Branson helped optimize the ultrasonic tooling and assembly process. See how we created a consistent seal that could withstand high-volume production demands.
