If a person is only as good as their word; then it would stand to reason that a medical tubing supplier is only as good as their tubes, right?
Medical tubing suppliers around the country offer their customers a wide range of services in manufacturing custom tubing. However, what makes one medical tubing supplier stand out for the competition? After all, not all Medical Tubing Suppliers are created equal.
It’s not a trick question, but a real one that design engineers should consider when they are shopping around for the best medical tubing supplier to meet their custom tubing needs.
One such defining competency is a medical tubing suppliers expertise in a particular configuration of tubing, for instance, do they specialize in small diameter custom tubing?
Why this is important may not be immediately evident, but if you consider that while technology keeps advancing, the components installed in the equipment are designed to more exacting specifications i.e., precision small diameter tubing. OK-what does that translate into for the design engineers and the medical tubing suppliers?
Well, take thin wall tubing for example used in a sensitive piece of medical equipment, chances are its tolerances need to be tighter but it still needs to retain its mechanical characteristics of being flexible, durable, etc.; but the thermoplastic initially selected may be challenged in being extruded for this new small diameter custom tubing’s specifications.
But who would have the expertise to make that discernment for their customers? One would venture a guess and state that it would take the design and manufacturing insight of an experienced medical tubing supplier who specializes in small diameter tubing. Wouldn’t it?