Biomaterials Testing / No. 3 / January 2010  Enabling more elegant orthopaedic device development Build certainty into your dynamic testing with MTS Force Transducers Meet all of your biomechanical testing needs with Bionix® solutions   Advanced testing technology allows large medical device manufacturers to better mitigate risk and get new products to market faster.   Enabling more elegant orthopaedic device development   The orthopaedic device industry has expanded rapidly over the past 20 years, driven primarily by the innovation of entrepreneurial medical professionals. But as more large medical device manufacturers acquire these entrepreneurs’ designs, it has become apparent that the entrepreneurial model is not fully suited to meet their demands. Specifically, the model does not sufficiently reduce risk during development, nor does it get products to market as quickly as needed. In response to these pressures, large manufacturers have increasingly followed the example of the aerospace and automotive industries, choosing to augment the innovative entrepreneurial model with a more elegant and structured device development path. Luther Johnson, MTS Senior Product Manager, and Steve Trout, MTS Senior Application Engineer, discuss this “elegant” new path, which allows manufacturers to conduct meaningful testing earlier and more frequently during development, helping them better mitigate risk and perfect their designs more quickly. Read full story     Build certainty into your dynamic testing with MTS Force Transducers   Gaining meaningful materials test data requires precise measurement and control of the loads and motions being applied to test specimens. For dynamic testing of materials under load, displacement or strain control, this critical measurement function is best performed by highly accurate MTS Force Transducers (load cells) for servohydraulic systems. Read full story     Meet all of your biomechanical testing needs with Bionix® solutions   No matter what materials or what part of the musculoskeletal system your work involves, you’ll find the ideal solution to match in the comprehensive family of Bionix® dynamic and universal test systems and accessories. Bionix solutions can help you accurately and efficiently test a wide variety of Biomedical components and materials, including bone, soft tissue, dental elements, plastics, stainless steel, titanium, ceramics, shape memory alloys and wires. Read full story   MD&M West 2010 Feb 9-11, 2010 Anaheim, CA   Orthopaedic Research Society 2009 (ORS) Mar 6-9, 2010 New Orleans, LA   MEDTEC Europe 2010 Mar 23-25, 2010 Stuttgart, Germany   MTS Announces First Quarter 2010 Earnings Release and Conference Call      MTS Declares Quarterly Dividend     MTS Reports 2009 Fourth Quarter Financial Results  View Past Editions / Editorial Feedback / Privacy Policy © 2004-2010 MTS Systems Corporation. All rights reserved. Logos, names, designs, titles, words, or phrases appearing on this page may constitute trademarks, servicemarks, or tradenames of MTS Systems Corporation and may be registered in various jurisdictions.