Tweezers and Cutters

Medical devices are crucial when it comes to diagnosing, preventing, monitoring, and treating diseases that affect an individual’s quality of life. The demand for devices and innovative products is on the rise with the move towards advanced and personalized treatment.

Not only are the devices themselves significant but everything that goes on behind the scenes in the manufacturing process is just as critical. If the tools didn’t exist that are used during this process, then the quality of these devices would be sorely lacking. One of these tools, which is a very simple one, is tweezers.

What is Medical Device Manufacturing?

Medical device manufacturing encompasses all aspects when it comes to producing a medical device. This includes the design, the actual production of the medical device, ongoing improvements, and the packaging and sterilization of the device for shipment.

There are many types of tools that are used in the medical device manufacturing process. These also include precision tools such as tweezers.

What is a Precision Tweezer?

A precision tweezer found in a lab or other environment is used to grip and manipulate delicate and small objects. They are typically made out of plastic or stainless steel, titanium, or other metals.

Plastic tweezers are often used in cleanrooms and controlled environments since they are packaged in sterile individual packs. Metal tweezers are often used in lab environments where it is essential to have tools that are resistant to corrosion, chemicals, and where greater durability may be required.

Tweezers come in a variety of sizes, styles, and designs. Some have tips that are flat, angled, curved, rounded, blunt, pointed, or have silicone or foam tips and handles for extra grip. There are some tweezers with self-locking pins to keep the tips aligned and some with a coating such as PTFE to prevent scratching, contamination, or damage to delicate samples.

Why Do You Need Tweezers in Medical Device Manufacturing?

Used Under Magnification. Under magnification, tweezers are needed for handling microscope filter discs, coverslips, dissection, and the handling of biological samples.

Manipulating Items. A common use for tweezers is to manipulate delicate or small objects in the manufacturing of medical devices. They can also be used in manufacturing such as engineering and electronics for handling small components.

Working in a Cleanroom. Tweezers are necessary in controlled environments such as cleanrooms in order to avoid any direct handling of an item and to ensure cleanliness and sterility.

Top Tweezers Used for Medical Device Manufacturing

5-SA-R/3C-SA-R- Ergo-Tweezers are ideal for working in cleanrooms, while providing operators comfort when using for prolonged periods.

00-SA – Heavy duty tweezers to pull and bend stainless steel wire. This is used with fine tools like the 3-M tweezer but to pull material rather than to manipulate.

3C-CO - Straight very fine pointed tweezer is made of a cobalt alloy, which is temperature resistant to 932°F and corrosion resistant. The radius tips eliminate marring and scratching.

3C-TA - Titanium alloy tweezers are designed for high temp applications (806°F/430°C) and feature zero magnetic retentiveness. Great for SS use.

M-5 - Miniature tweezer used under magnification for manipulating items like stainless steel wire and Nitinol wire. The smaller size increases handling.

M-3 - Miniature tweezer used under magnification for manipulating items like stainless steel wire and Nitinol wire. The smaller size increases handling.

53C-SA - Features a special anti-crush device that makes the tweezers collapse when there is too much pressure applied, thus protecting delicate parts. Great for minimizing pressure marks on the item the operator is handling.

7SA - Used under magnification for manipulating items like stainless steel wire and Nitinol wire. Due to the shape, this tool reduces hand fatigue.

51-SA - Used under magnification for manipulating items like stainless steel wire and Nitinol wire. Due to the shape, this tool reduces hand fatigue.

Where to purchase Excelta Tweezers Used for Medical Device Manufacturing:

As one of the top leaders in Medical Device Manufacturing hand tools and tweezers, Lab Pro acknowledges that every application is different. We  work from your specifications to produce any tool to meet your needs and  specifications. Our experienced designers can determine what you need and create the tool that is customized for your unique requirements.

If you require a single tool to cater to special parts under specific and unique conditions, or an abundance of custom tools to place or extract parts, cut, or crimp, Lab Pro has Custom Design Services that will meet your needs. Contact info@labproinc.com or 888-4-LABPRO (888-452-2776) to learn more.