Accelerating Medical Device Prototyping and Production

Get to market faster and streamline your supply chain with rapid prototyping and on-demand production of medical components

How Do Medical Companies Use ?

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Full Product Life Cycle
Whether you need prototype parts in one day of full-service production, you can partner with us across your entire product life cycle for speed, quality, and cost-efficiency in every project.
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Rapid Prototyping
Take advantage of DFM feedback in our instant quotes to make adjustments to part design before any actual manufacturing begins, then navigate quickly through prototyping with ease.
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On-Going Production
You’ll find complete program management at Protolabs with a team of manufacturing experts who will help optimize your project around cost, quantity, and quality.
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Short-Term Production
Tap into our production capabilities for short-term needs like jigs, fixtures, and industrial components, or managing inventory and financial costs towards the end of the product life cycle.
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Short-Term Production
Tap into our production capabilities for short-term needs like jigs, fixtures, and industrial components, or managing inventory and financial costs towards the end of the product life cycle.

We are the fastest and most comprehensive digital manufacturer in the industry with more than 25 years of experience developing products for innovative medical companies around the world.

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96%

of Fortune 500 Medical Companies Served

750 Million

Parts Manufactured

300,000

Customers Served

Full Production Support Team

We have a team of manufacturing experts working behind the scenes to fulfill your production order—we manage the entire process and keep you updated along the way.

Manufacturing Services for Medical Products

Injection Molding

Get affordable, high-quality molded parts and bridge tooling within days. With our free moldability consultation, the design and molding process is rapidly accelerated to save you time and money.

Your Trusted Partner in Medical Product

Development

Speed, quality, and technical expertise are built into our entire process. Partnering with us helps ensure your design is optimized, your development timeline is accelerated, and that you’re supported from prototyping through end-use production.

Quality Measures for the Medical Industry

Our industry-standard procedures and certifications guarantee quality and regulatory compliance.

CMM inspection reportFirst Article Inspection (FAI)
Dimensional Inspection Report (DIR)PPAP
Material Certificates + Certificate of AnalysisConflict Minerals Reporting
REACH + RoHS CertificatesProp65
Industry Certifications: ISO 9001 and AS 9100 Certificate of Conformance (CoC)
Industry Certifications (Protolabs Network): ISO 13485, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, and ISO TS16949  

Materials for Medical Applications

High-temp Plastics

PEEK and PEI (Ultem) offer high-temperature resistance, creep resistance, and are suited for applications that require sterilization.

Medical-grade Silicone Rubber

Dow Corning’s QP1-250 has excellent thermal, chemical, and electrical resistance. It’s also bio-compatible so can be used in applications that require skin contact.

Advanced Photopolymers

Tough Black and ceramic-filled are production-grade materials available through our Hybrid Photosynthesis (HPS) technology, ideal for late-stage prototyping or end-use devices.

Family and Multi-Cavity Molding

MicroFine™ (green­ and gray) is a proprietary material developed by Protolabs to build complex 3D-printed parts with micro-sized features as small as 0.0025 in.

Secondary Operations

Watershed (ABS-like) and Accura 60 (PC-like) are clear materials can be used for microfluidic parts and transparent components like lenses and housings.

Quality and Inspections

Between machined and 3D-printed metals along with sheet metal, there are more than 20 metal material options available for medical components, and other applications.

Common Medical Applications

We have several capabilities within our manufacturing services catered to the medical industry. Here are a few applications we frequently see.

Parker Hannifin Brings Robotic Exoskeleton to Life with Protolabs

Engineers at motion and control tech leader, Parker Hannifin, needed to accelerate development speed and reduce design risk of their robotic exoskeleton. A combination of digital manufacturing technologies and automated quoting enabled a high iterative design process without sacrificing time to market.

Get an online quote and injection molding design analysis today.