The ATS (Applied Technical Services) Family of Companies provides mechanical testing capabilities at our medical device testing laboratories. We help these manufacturers ensure quality, functionality, and safety in their products through our expertise in performing various testing methods.
Why Medical Device Testing Laboratories Are Necessary
Medical device testing laboratories serve a crucial role in the development of medical devices. They assist manufacturers in ensuring that their product’s performance adheres to strict standards and regulations. Furthermore, these joint efforts prevent faulty equipment from entering the market and potentially causing harm to patients.
Medical Device Testing We Offer:
Axial compression testing applies a force to compress a specimen. This testing method provides yield and ultimate strength and represents a large portion of fatigue testing since it closely replicates stresses the materials must survive throughout their service lives.
Fatigue testing applies cyclic loading to a structure or coupon. This test identifies a sample’s lifespan, location, and susceptibility.
Instrument and life cycle testing adds mechanical functions onto a unit inside a moderated environment. This test shows the failures, weaknesses, and strengths of the sample.
Lot verification testing confirms whether each lot of product meets the minimum safety and quality requirements before it hits the market.
Non-standard testing encompasses various types of testing. It applies to all new or unusual devices with no accepted testing standard.
Shear testing applies parallel stresses to a sample to cause sliding failure. This test determines the shear strength of a material.
Torsion testing twists a sample around its axis to acquire information such as maximum torque, shear modulus, and torsional shear stress. It can also locate a material’s breaking angle or two materials’ interfaces.
Tensile testing determines the force required to break a composite or stretch the specimen to its breaking point. It provides information on the metallic material’s tensile strength, yield strength, and ductility.
Wear and simulation testing evaluates the performance of a device in everyday conditions to determine if it will fulfill its functions correctly. This test allows manufacturers to improve and optimize their designs before large-scale manufacturing and implantation.
Dedicated Screw Testing
Driving torque testing evaluates the force it takes a screw to penetrate a known substrate. Manufacturers use the data from testing to optimize designs and not overload the bone. Pull-out testing identifies the resistance a screw shows against being pulled out of its substrate.Medical device testing laboratories frequently perform this test immediately after a driving torque test. Sheer, fatigue, and level testing evaluate the amount of force a screw must withstand while levering or moving due to a rod or plate.
Custom Testing
Our Family of Companies works on numerous projects with no set testing standard every year. Our labs possess the experience needed to understand what regulatory agencies around the world find acceptable. We retain a deep knowledge of test designs to meet our client’s needs. Partnering together, we can navigate the testing process—whether novel or cutting-edge designs. From inspection to realization, we conduct countless types of testing, and we center everything we do around the goal of approval.
Our Medical Device Testing Laboratories
From spinal to extremity, the Family of Companies covers a wide range of medical device testing. We specialize in mechanical testing backed by our state-of-the-art medical device testing laboratories. Our operation runs for 24-hours a day. We employ a team of highly skilled scientists and technicians to assist clients in executing their test plans.
Our Family of Companies
Our Family of Companies possesses the proper tools to respond to a fast-paced product development industry. We guarantee our clients high-quality medical device testing services with reliable results, professional reporting, and rapid response times. Above everything else, our medical device testing services support fast product development in a wildly competitive industry.
We Provide:
- Additive manufactured and component testing
- Comprehensive and proven solutions
- Custom testing procedures
- Extensions of client’s team, providing timely execution and expert guidance
- Regulatory-ready test reports
- Expertise in titanium subject matter
- Trusted Reputation
- 20 + years of experience
Industry-Recognized Certification
We are an ISO/IEC 17025:2017 Test Laboratory Accreditation Certificate #2142-01-A2LA holder through the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA). We are a qualified and capable company that performs testing and evaluations for medical devices. We help manufacturers comply with completed medical devices’ ISO/ASTM guidelines. All lab technicians must undergo extensive training to abide by our Quality Management System (QMS) and confidential document handling procedures. We uphold organization-wide confidentiality with every one of our employees.
Contact Us
With the Applied Technical Services (ATS) Family of Companies, you are not just testing; you are actively working toward getting your medical device on the market as quickly as possible. We invite you to tour our medical device testing laboratories and see our operations directly.
