Medical device teams often enter development with a design concept, performance requirements, and preliminary material selections already in place. Early collaboration with an experienced manufacturer can reveal opportunities they may not have considered, from alternative materials that improve performance or reduce cost to tooling strategies that accelerate prototyping and testing. This is especially valuable for multi-material applications involving thermoplastics, metal substrates, and silicone, where material compatibility and processing expertise can significantly influence the finished device, and where emerging technologies such as self-bonding and UV-curing silicones can open up new possibilities for device design and manufacturing.

In this episode of Videobites, Brunson Parish, Director of Technology Development at MRPC, explains how earlier manufacturing involvement helps customers refine design concepts, eliminate duplicated effort, and improve speed to market. He also discusses how exploration with thermoplastic and silicone experts helps customers improve device performance, reduce costs, and bring more manufacturable designs to market faster.

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