The medical industry is becoming more remote, allowing for home and distance care. Drug delivery devices, remote monitors, sensors, and wireless connectivity are transforming health solutions with electronic wearable devices. This increased intelligence demands that flexible circuit technology produces 3D structures capable of conforming comfortably to the human body and clothing applications.
We are seeing tier-one suppliers demonstrating new wearable medical technological capabilities.
Flexible Circuits can deliver the versatility and durability that wearable devices need to withstand any environment. Flexible Electronics provide Medical Device compliance tracking through our quality systems, wireless connectivity, power, and comfort. From etched copper to printed silvers, we can deliver cost-effect solutions for Smart Packaging to fit perfectly, function reliably, and report accurately.
Health Solutions
The transformation of the health care industry has led to increased home care and improved hospital infection prevention, transforming the medical sector globally. This transformation has led to vital innovation in drug delivery devices, medical devices, remote monitors, sensors, and wireless connectivity.
Flexible circuits are critical to this transformation of the health care industry, providing flexible, adaptable, and clean solutions.
Sheldahl resides in one of the key markets for the Medical Devices industry in Minnesota. We are leveraging our relationship with our parent company and other medical device companies to deliver flexible circuits used in single-use medical tools, drug delivery, wearable devices for remote monitoring, anti-microbial surfaces, smart packaging, and human-machine interfaces. Since Sheldahl is vertically integrated, we can deliver a Flex circuit to fully assembled and kitted medical devices through our parent company Flex. This one-stop-shop is unique in the Health Care industry.
Due to patients' needs, a good HMI system makes a device simpler (more predictable, more intuitive) to the user as technology transitions to be more sophisticated. This trend allows for easier sterilization and usability in the medical space.
Flexible circuits help deliver an improved patient and doctor experience for HMI by delivering user-friendly touch sensors. Flexible printed circuits are well-designed to fit the user's image of the tasks they need to perform. They enable the ability to give accurate feedback, presenting critical, and detailed visual information back to the user. Their capabilities remove design limitations, opening new possibilities for small and tight spaces, uneven and flat surfaces.
The medical industry is developing less invasive medical devices using smaller, thinner, and longer precision disposable tools. As the tools' size decreases, the need for functionality in the limited size increases, requiring better intelligence and accuracy.
Flexible circuits provide a hard data connection from the handle to the working portion of the tool, producing a lightweight and ergonomic solution for single-use medical devices. This creates a higher quality inspectable and traceable component that decreases concern for product failure. Our vertically integrated process and tooling deliver the precision, reliability, and quality required for the Surgical Environment.
Tracking pharmaceutical and medical device products are essential to ensure traceability, inventory management, date expiration, and quality. This requires the accuracy of the information, which can be hard when only a label is used.
Flexible Printed Circuits enable wireless connectivity, conformability, battery power, and monitoring. From etched copper to printed silvers, FPCs can deliver cost-effective solutions for Smart Packaging to fit perfectly, function reliably, and report accurately.