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At COMPAMED, exhibitors demonstrate how microsystems and miniature components make all the difference. These technologies operate invisibly, yet can be a decisive factor in patients' lives.
Interview Karl-Heinz Fritz, Cicor
Miniaturization of medical devices is key for future developments. When it comes to hearing aids, for example, hearing aids will not just be a pure sound amplifier in future, it will be a health monitoring device.
Established and known manufacturing technologies are very often not suitable anymore for the manufacturing of miniaturized devices. So, we are looking more and more into alternative and new manufacturing techniques that enable, in the long run, the manufacturing of these devices.
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Manufacturers still face technical challenges, but the payoff for medical technology is huge.
Interview Andreas Morschhauser, Fraunhofer ENAS
The challenges in producing on microscale, of course, are things like pollution, contamination, and compatibility of materials on the microscale.
Miniaturization, of course, enables more functional density, and so we can pack more functions into medical devices, enabling, for example, multiplexing, or measurement of multiple parameters in one device. Precision and reliability are the foundation of microtechnology for medical devices.
So if you are measuring a parameter and want to do a judgment or diagnosis on base of that, of course, you need to trust this data.
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For more insights on microtechnology and miniaturization, check out compamed-tradefair.com and next COMPAMED in Düsseldorf.
