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Greg Berrevoets, a New Product Development Engineer at Lowell, wrote this article entitled “Tolerance Stackups in Complex Medical Device Assemblies” shows that the cost associated with performing a proper stackup is much more attractive than the cost associated with revisions and missed product launches.

Jim Stertz, Quality/Technology Director at Lowell, co-wrote this piece on Material Identification and Control using X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF).

Jim Stertz, Quality/Technology Director at Lowell, wrote this piece on automating the PMM/CMM using a Motoman robot and configuring the entire system in-house.

This article, entitled “Achieve Higher Mechanical Precision with Profile Tolerancing” appeared in Quality Magazine. Dr. Hetland of the International Institute of GD&T and Dan Goldman of Honeywell in the most comprehensive article yet, address profile tolerancing and its advantages over linear tolerancing. Solid models and test data provided by Lowell.

Lowell’s custom tooling process was featured in the March issue of Manufacturing Engineering Magazine published by the Society of Manufacturing Engineering (SME). The article entitled “Improving Medical Devices at Lowell” outlined our process from tool design and fabrication to production.

Lowell’s automated manufacturing process was featured in the Medical Manufacturing 2014 issue of Manufacturing Engineering Magazine published by the Society of Manufacturing Engineering (SME). The article entitled “Medical Manufacturing without the Manual” outlined how we use our Mazak i150 cell to reduce overall labor cost.

Critical feature confirmation (CFC) is a leading-edge method to figure out which device features are critical and which aren’t.