Norman Noble Inc., Highland Heights, Ohio, introduces Noble SynchroFlash, a new machining capability that synchronizes Swiss turning & milling and laser machining into a single highly efficient and cost-effective operation for producing medical devices of exotic materials. Noble SynchroFlash machining provides cost savings, faster production, better quality, and higher yields versus competing manufacturing methods, which require multiple, separate processes. SynchroFlash is currently available for medical device OEMs.
Manufacturing parts designed for Swiss turning and laser machining previously required secondary manufacturing steps and equipment. The same parts, as well as parts that were previously too expensive to manufacture, can now be made in a single, validated machine.
SynchroFlash achieves its extraordinary efficiencies by eliminating the start-stop-start nature of producing parts on separate equipment. It ultimately reduces the amount of handling, time, and part fixturing required to manufacture parts designed for Swiss machining that also have features requiring laser machining.
“SynchroFlash broadens the options for medical design engineers for manufacturing individual parts that previously may have been cost- or time-prohibitive,” said Chris Noble, vice president and chief operating officer of Norman Noble. “The addition of this machining capability aligns with Norman Noble’s focus on providing our OEM customers the newest manufacturing technologies with the highest level of quality and lowest total cost.”
The company specializes in micromachining of exotic materials to very complex geometries with dimensional tolerances to +/-0.0001 inch. Its micromachining and finishing capabilities enable it to prototype, validate, and manufacture the newest medical device, component, and implant designs.
