Balloon Catheter Equipment and Expertise
Machine Solutions provides the complete equipment solutions needed to manufacture the world's finest balloon catheters. From concept to production, our equipment can meet all customer product specifications and production needs. This includes machinery for balloon molding, balloon bonding, balloon folding, necking, cutting, coating, testing, mold production, and more.
Machine Solutions is proud to be your one-stop shop for all balloon catheter manufacturing processes. Our equipment experts are ready to provide engineers with the best solution to meet their process needs.
Balloon fold
MSI's revolutionary folding methods and equipment are used to manufacture most of the approved balloon catheters on the market today. The patented Wavepleat™ design reduces cycle time and minimizes fold diameter by optimizing the curvature of the balloon material. Equipped with automated machines to maximize throughput or handle drug-eluting balloons. All of our equipment uses best-in-class materials, ensuring quality control and reproducible results through data capture and web capabilities.
Balloon forming
Drug-coated balloon folds
MSI's Drug Eluting Balloon Pleating and Folding Device is the industry's first and only system specifically designed to handle DEB/DCB products. The FFS1075S extends industry-proven balloon folding technology with the addition of an integrated PTFE membrane that protects the balloon coating from damage and eliminates the potential for cross-contamination that can occur with traditional folding/folding methods.
Features:
Reduced folding profile and sheath force
Protects drug coatings from damage and cross-contamination
Reduce cycle time and operator handling
remove wrinkles
Creates folds of equal length for even deployment
Vertical Balloon Forming
The vertical orientation provides a small footprint for optimal utilization of production floor space during balloon molding. Customers can start with a single machine and then increase the machine capacity as needed. The machine is equipped with PLC control, PC with touch screen and BW-TEC HMI. All process parameters for individual products can be stored in individual recipes.
Automated catheter manufacturing workstation
"Workcell" is an automated platform designed to improve the quality, speed and cost of multiple balloon catheter and stent delivery production processes. The conduits are oriented vertically to significantly reduce the required footprint. It is estimated that the standard configuration of these machines will require more than 25 linear meters of manufacturing space. Workcell can compress all these processes into a 2 square meter machine.
Work unit features:
One operator can run multiple production processes
Parallel processes run concurrently to optimize takt time and production yield
Vertical product handling reduces equipment footprint
Integrated QA without compromising takt time
Automated product handling improves finished product consistency
Custom configurations to meet the needs of your unique process
Marker band swaging with automatic positioning
MSI's automatic marking tape swaging equipment automatically positions and swages marking tapes within tight manufacturing tolerances. For high volume PTCA and PTA length product manufacturing, pick and place loading options allow
For continuous automated processing. Profile-driven swaging machines include an integrated PLC control system with a touchscreen interface for easy process development and quick product changeovers.
Features:
Eliminates need for operator to manually load swage and positioning belts
Improve product positioning repeatability (±0.15mm accuracy product and distance dependent)
Supports quick and easy changes to different product sizes
Woven various marker tape materials
clean room ready
No lubrication or gaskets required
MSI provides functional and software checklists to support verification activities
Protect the thermal catheter balloon
The Beahm Balloon Bonder 520-B utilizes the proven split-molding technique as the system protects the heat sensitive catheter balloon during the welding and bonding process by encapsulating the balloon in a pneumatic cavity immediately adjacent to the weld area. The device further enhances protection as the die is retracted during assembly and unloading. The 520-B Balloon Bonder is also ideal for protecting heat-sensitive materials such as electrical components and coils in non-balloon catheters.