Precision Surface Finishing for Medical Orthopaedic Components
posted 1st December 2023
Discover essential surface finishing techniques vital for advancing medical devices and orthopaedic implants, ensuring high quality and adherence to professional standards. Specifically designed for orthopaedic implants, achieving dimensional precision involves mastering lapping and polishing processes.
Kemet's Process Development Laboratories provide specialised polishing machines for medical implants. Kemet's latest innovation, the KemiSphere II, a bench-top spherical/ball lapper and polisher, capable of achieving roundness better than five microns, featuring a mesmerising mirror finish. This two-stage process is simple, repeatable, budget-friendly, accommodating various materials and joint sizes.
In the manufacturing of tibial trays and hip components, where expenses are frequently influenced by consumables, Kemet emerges as a leader committed to cost reduction.
Beyond its cost-effective approach, Kemet showcases a remarkable proficiency in surface finishing, serving as a driving force for innovation. This proficiency extends to the introduction of novel processes and consumables aimed at augmenting productivity and diminishing the cost per component. Notably, the Kemet Tibial Polishing Cell exemplifies this commitment by efficiently finishing sizable batches of replacement knee components, such as tibial trays.
Exacting attention to intricacies such as sharpness, roughness, alignment, and other critical factors is essential in the realm of medical devices. The relentless pursuit of perfection necessitates precision in measurements, a standard achievable exclusively through the meticulous application of advanced surface finishing techniques.
Kemet also offers a range of products, from ultrasonic cleaning tanks to aqueous cleaning fluids complying with ISO standards, passivation equipment meeting ISO 7 cleanroom standards, and vacuum solvent cleaners reducing solvent loss and process costs. As a global leader in precision surface finishing, Kemet is fully equipped to provide comprehensive support and service for all its polishing systems.
Kemet will be exhibiting at Medical Technology UK 2024, the UK's only event exclusively focused on the design, research, engineering and advancement of medical devices. They will be on the GTMA Pavilion, stand #22.