A guide to 3M materials science and technology solutions for medical device designers and manufacturers

Less is more.3M MedTech.

3M MedTechWhat we can do changes what you can doWe are the team that bring 3M Science to MedTech manufacturers, enabling innovations in health care. With our deep materials science understanding and our application engineering know-how, 3M can help you design more innovative devices, improve your manufacturing processes and help your company achieve their sustainability objectives.

Areas of Expertise:

Design & Build

Manufacturing Processes

Sterilization

Worker Health & Safety

Design & BuildSuperior Product Design3M helps MedTech manufacturers design and build more reliable, innovative and feature-rich medical devices. We provide a range of materials and technologies including stick-to-skin adhesives for wearable devices and diagnostic films for microfluidic applications. We’ll help you find the right materials for your product and get your design to market, no matter what development stage you’re in.

• Wide variety of stick to skin adhesives - tailored to multiple application needs from wearables to wound care to diabetes management

• Biocompatibility for all skin adhesives - reducing risk of clinical test failures

• Low gumming adhesives to significantly reduce machine down time and material usage

• For specific custom die-cutting needs 3M can introduce Converting companies to your R&D teams

Stick-to-Skin Adhesives

‘Go-to’ Products 3M™ Single Coated Medical Adhesives 3M™ Double Coated Medical Adhesives

Manufacturing ProcessesEnabling Continuous ImprovementOur abrasives, sustainable solvents and membranes are used for improving quality and efficiency in a wide variety of critical manufacturing processes such as grinding & finishing, vapour degreasing and debubbling of final coatings in the orthopedic, vascular, hospital & homecare, opthalmic and contract manufacturing sectors.

Grinding and Finishing 3M Abrasives are suitable for a range of precision metal and ceramic components including cutting tools, implants and hypotubes. Benefits include:

• Reduced grinding cycle times

• Reduced dressing (wheel consumption) drives down the cost per unit (CPU) for our customers and provides a cleaner and safer working environment

• Reduced levels of bond yielding virtually burn free grinding

Debubbling/DegassingAir bubbles in the solution used in coating processes may cause product defects. 3M™ Liqui-Cel™ Membrane Contactors offer a safe, simple and cost effective solution. Benefits include:

• In-line removal of bubbles in coating processes with elegant simplicity (no moving parts) - doesn’t interrupt the existing process

• Reduced risk of introducing contaminants during debubbling process

Precision Cleaning and Vapour Degreasing3M™ Novec™ Engineered Fluids are ideal for the ultrasonic cleaning of precision metal and plastic medical parts with effective removal of oils, waxes and greases. Benefits include:

• Shorter cleaning cycle times with reduced power consumption and elimination of need for waste water treatment compared to alternative aqueous systems

• Smaller equipment footprint enables cellular manufacturing

‘Go-to’ Products 3M™ Superabrasive Wheels 3M™ Cubitron™ II Abrasives3M™ Scotch-Brite™ Abrasives

‘Go-to’ Products 3M™ Novec™ Engineered Fluids

‘Go-to’ Products 3M™ Liqui-Cel™ Membrane Contactors

Sterilization Safeguarding your device3M is the name you can trust in sterilization assurance and monitoring. From EO sterilizers with customisable cycle parameters to biological indicators with super-fast release times, our portfolio is designed to give you more control over your medical device sterilization process.

• Fully compliant Ethylene Oxide sterilization system that allows easy, economical and efficient access to in-house sterilization to optimise your supply chain

• Allows device makers the ability to improve throughput and efficiency

• Programmable (processes) allowing fast and easy design of sterilization cycles specific to the device to be sterilized

• Decrease cycle time and validation time

• Simplify final lot release and adapt to varying demands on production

• Full range of monitoring products provide reliable, compliant solutions to meet manufacturing and validation requirements

• Suitable for both R&D and Production environments

Sterilization and Monitoring

‘Go-to’ Products 3M™ Steri-Vac™ Sterilizer/ Aerator GSX Series 3M™ Attest™ Super Rapid Readout Biological Indicators

Worker Health & SafetyProtection you need mostAt 3M we understand that the MedTech industry requires consistent and high levels of worker protection. We strive to deliver comfortable, well-designed Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) that offers your workers the most effective protection available.

Personal Protective Equipment

• With 3M™ Peltor™ Communications Solutions, you can protect your workforce from noise-induced hearing loss while increasing productivity

• The 3M range of monitor badges assist in worker safety by offering a simple but highly effective method of testing personal exposure levels to gas and vapours

• 3M™ SecureFit™ Protective Eyewear features our innovative Pressure Diffusion Temple Technology which helps to enhance comfort and fit and compatibility

‘Go-to’ Products 3M™ SecureFit™ Eyewear3M™ Peltor™ Communications

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