Mike Kucza

Insightful episode on the #MedExPodcast with Steve Maxson and VitaTek CEO Jason Scherer. Thanks for your support Steve! #startups #gamechanger #future #medtech #medicaldevices #productlaunch #prototyping #innovation #engineering #researchanddevelopment #contractmanufacturing

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What happens if you don't have a hand in the game? Steve Bell and I discuss some of the challenges in the large format robotic space that is occurring in the current centers of care. What if you are a large strategic miss the current vintage of soft tissue platforms because the one you are betting on is no longer relevant to where the market has gone? Or you are years out from getting through the FDA? No matter what you tell the investment community. Should the large strategics be betting on a single platform or should they have a fleet of solutions in their portfolio that address case complexity and specific sites of care? Once the current platforms like Moon Surgical, Distalmotion, an CMR Surgical are no longer available, how does a strategic wait 5-10 years to have the market get away from them? Steve and I also discuss recent talent changes in certain robotic companies as well as other dynamics that are shifting the landscape. Full session in Comments

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Mr Boojangles top questions to ask contract manufacturers. Medical Device Contract Manufacturers all claim they design and mfg in house. Top questions to ask your contract mfg. 1) Die Molds in house? Order from China and then upcharge me? Lead time? Mold flow analysis in house? 2) FDA regulatory on staff? Meet them weekly? 3) Is your team in the operating room weekly? Last time in the OR? 4) Sterilization in house? If no, who can I call to get sterilization validation lead times? 5) Office on site and work in your mfg clean room? Work on my product weekly, can we have weekly meetings? Can I use your QMS? Will you distribute my product to hospitals? 6) Can you provide weekly prototypes? Animation video? Investor one pager? Business plan? 7) Hydrophilic coating in house? Reformulation in house? Less than $900 per liter? Manufacture in house? Lead time less than 3 months? 8) Will you do marketing, social media, website? 9) Will you hire a medical sales team? Run the team? Hit quota? Sales strategy? Why not? Ask the questions! VitaTek RD/Rapid Prototyping/Weekly in house Hydrophilic Coating in house Regulatory in house Die Mold Tooling in house Contract Manufacturing in house Sterilization in house Marketing in house Sales Team in house www.vitatek.io Medical Device Development Manufacturing Everything In House #prototyping #rapidprototyping #contractmanufacturing #manufacturing #medical #medicaldevices #sterilization #medicaldevicemanufacturing #researchanddevelopment #researchdevelopment #equity #privateequity #capital #hydrophilic #coatings #diemolds #meddevice #doctors

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𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐥 Your champ 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐇 𝐒𝐘𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐌. Does your Fetzer valve lower post-operative pain? Maybe it gets patients out a day early? Let's say it's $1000 a day in cost to a hospital... Your surgeon does 150 cases a year? Treat yourself to a Fresca. (but report it if you buy one for your surgeon as well -Advamed and all that) You've just saved $150,000 in Cost of Care for that clinical pathway. And $1000 per Episode of Care. And have your Champ and fellow end users to describe the product this way: 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐳𝐞𝐫 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭-𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬, 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐮𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲. 𝐀𝐭 $𝟏𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝟏𝟓𝟎 𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐞𝐭𝐳𝐞𝐫 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐛𝐲 $𝟏𝟓𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲. Business? Meet Clinical. Clinical? Meet Business. Sure pays for a lot of Fresca. We teach this a much more in our free Video Series: How to Coach Your Champion Sign up here... https://lnkd.in/eBidxffd

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⚙️Freeform Injection Molding (FIM)⚙️ Time to market! Cost benefit of FIM is lead time reduction to design freeze. FIM allows the use of production choice materials or various material considerations to optimize the final design, reducing downstream design changes. SPT VILECON raising the bar!

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What are the applications for Permanent Mold Casting? Permanent mold castings are used to produce heavier and thicker walled components such as: transmission housings, intake manifolds, and lower-stress suspension parts. This casting process is also widely used in manufacturing parts for machinery, pump and gearbox housings, machine bases, boat engine parts, and structural components. Permanent mold cast products are renowned for their high quality and consistent production performance and reliability. The quality of permanent mold casting products is driven by several factors that can be carefully moderated, such as: surface finish, dimensional accuracy, reduced porosity, enhanced mechanical properties, and repeatability. Good dimensional accuracy and tight tolerances can be achieved in the process—as long as tooling is precise and process conditions well-controlled. The control of the cooling process also helps minimize porosity, resulting in components with improved mechanical properties and structural integrity, compared with sand casting. When well-operated, the method ensures consistent quality from one casting to the next across large batches, with uniformity and low defect rates. https://lnkd.in/gTjNtMxW

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Take a listen to Dr Calvin J. Rushing, DPM, FACFAS talk about the intraoperative benefits of the Metalogix Revolution system!

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😖 Pockets, walls, bosses, complex detailing, holes, slots, threads and more. These are key considerations when designing for machining 🙂. 💡 This page is dedicated to helping you understand the key principles of part design for CNC machining. https://lnkd.in/edYJQ4U9

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Have you thought of shortening your exam times? Here's how you can be more cost-effective with your time: https://lnkd.in/gVTpTV5J #eyecare #optometrist #PrivatePracticeTips #VeteranOwned #MadeInAmerica #biobased #BiobasedProducts #EcoFriendly #ecolens

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VDMIS 2024 R2.0 CMM Software: Smart Programming for 3D Curve Measurement Utilizing the PH20's Advanced Five Axis Motion. The first part uses head touch measurement, while the second part employs five-axis motion and conventional CMM touch.

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Micro injection molding is what I LOVE! See this TRIPLE overmolded accessory. This one was a challenge, but they run so smooth! Penny for scale. #injectionmolding #cncmachining #machinist

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Intuitive is doing it again. If you are in medical device, you are currently witnessing the first medtech company who is positioning themselves as a lifestyle brand. Intuitive Returning from SAGES this past week, it is clear that the team at Intuitive is executing on playbooks that were written by Apple and Steve Jobs and taken even further by Tesla and Elon Musk. If you attended SAGES, you saw it first hand and may not have realized it. Now that it is called out, you know. The new form factor of D5, the clear attention to the industrial design factors, the finishes.......seems Apple-like. Go to the Intuitive LinkedIn page and view their postings from the last week: - Dave Rosa's "What is Belief?" pic - The video from SAGES of "Transforming Surgery Together Again" - The Intuitive gamer headset on a customer The Intuitive website alongside the Tesla and Apple websites, have very similar vibes. Creating a visceral connection and taking a product to the level of a surgeons lifestyle creates legions of deep connections for the products to follow. You become part of a family, tribe, a community, a subculture. And now that I showed you, you will see it everywhere :) Well done Intuitive.

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This instrument can really help to get you out of some tough situations. A “must have” for each operatory as it can be used for multiple applications including root removal, tunneling, grasping of soft tissue, removal of points, files, and reamers. #ATitan #ATitanInstruments #Dentist #Dentistry #DentalIndustry #DentistTools #DentistInstruments #DentalInstruments #DentalProducts #TeethCare #HealthyTeeth #HealthyMouth #DentalHygiene #GeneralDentistry #DentalTools #DentalStudent #dental #dentalcare

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The Troubleshooter: How to Fix Part and Runner Sticking in Injection Molding Processes The causes of — and solutions to — some sticky situations commonly encountered by plastics processors are outlined.

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SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, FORGING AHEAD. "I've got a FEVER, and the only prescription is more cowbell" Some may recognize this citation from a SNL (Saturday Night Live) skit with the actors Will Ferrel and Christopher Walken. Was it also a metaphor about the physical characteristics of alloys in musical instruments, and their accurate elemental composition? Observing this nice cross picture closely, there seems to be spots with different levels of radiation (color clue). Would this come from an inhomogeneous distribution, or perhaps a change in elemental composition? Our human reflexes are geared towards not touching intensely glowing pieces. Would you say the cross on the top is the hotter one? But what happens when the glow is absent? Like in the classic restaurant behavior following the meal serving with the note: "watch it, your plate is very hot". But of course we still mindlessly reposition it... In an indirect spinoff, there are scientific instrumentation developments that are aimed at obtaining "more cowbell". Many are "light decomposition" tricks. Hence my saying: "Spectroscopy Rules!" The goal is always to extract more information about the material being processed (before, during, and after). Would you say that even cowbells' properties are influenced by a few factors, including their elemental composition? All this "Jazz" has made me wonder: How are cowbells made and tested?

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Ending nickel-and-diming for IFU access in medical device development. All in-house 🇺🇸 #Prototype #MedicalDevice #SpeedToMarket #rapidprototyping #contractmanufacturing #manufacturing #sterilization #researchanddevelopment

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In answer to the question 'Why 6 o'clock?': Because your precision matters. It is a very intuitive and obvious reason.

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