Product Development
With over 150 years of cumulative medical device design experience, we have developed products ranging from intravenous infusion devices to cardiovascular implants. We have created a variety of disposable and resposable devices, reusable instrumentation, and capital equipment.
Often starting with just an idea or a clinical issue in need of an engineering solution, our prototypes come complete from a team that understands medical needs and market conditions.
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Our team combines innovative design, experience-based intuition, and market knowledge to produce solutions that work as intended, on time and in budget.
We have proven experience managing critical milestones as part of venture start-ups.
Flex fully appreciates expenditure limits and investor demands on cost controls. Every team member takes budgets very seriously and is experienced at succeeding with strict time and cost constraints.
Our Design Specialty Areas
Cardiovascular Surgery
General Surgery
Orthopedics
Critical Care Medicine
Interventional Cardiology
Urology
Gastroenterology
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Vascular Surgery
Diagnostic Imaging
Plastic Surgery
Why outsource with Flex?
On demand engineering: Utilize a dedicated engineering team when you need it.
Flex can work in parallel or independently
Explore alternate concepts and solutions
Save on cost of recruiting and managing new engineers to explore new product ideas
Prototyping Capabilities
State of the art machine shop with lathes, mini-lathes, CNC mills, and laser cutting equipment.
Precision micro-machining
Extensive material selection including Titanium, Stainless Steel, Aluminum, PEEK, Acetal, Ultem, and more.
Thin sheet thermoforming
Thin film welding
Microfluidic chips
Nitinol forming and shape setting
FDM and SLA 3D printing
Silicone molding
Dip molding
Textiles / wearables
Small scale injection molding
Miniature sheet metal
Tube bending and forming
Metrology
Mechanical testing and verification
Finite element analysis
