EuroWire July 2020

Products

Nested Series springs: on-demand CAD access

engineers need access to this data and it had to be available on day one as part of the new product launch.” As an “advocate for digital customer experience” in the manufacturing industry, Smalley has provided engineers with access to digital product data and 3D CAD models for more than ten years. Adam Beck, director of marketing at Cadenas Partsolutions, commented, “Smalley is always working to streamline the process and nd faster ways to get data to their engineering customers. This forward-thinking approach is why so many engineers love to work with Smalley and return again and again.” Smalley is an ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 company, delivering products certi ed to IATF 16949, AS9100 and ISO 13485. Smalley www.smalley.com

Smalley has accelerated access to the Nested Series of springs by standardising the product line and providing instant access via the online product con gurator built by Cadenas Partsolutions. Formerly a custom product, engineers can now con gure and download the springs on-demand at the company’s website. While better known for its spiral retaining rings and space-saving wave-springs, Smalley has been producing the nested springs as a custom product for nearly 30 years. “Introducing a standard line of nested springs gives customers the ability to streamline production while meeting their high force requirements,” said R&D engineer Dan Frank. Online access will give engineers the ability to con gure and preview the Smalley part they need. Once the con guration has been determined, it can be downloaded in the engineer’s preferred CAD format to test its t within the design. “CAD is the most popular tool on our website,” said Brendan Briscoe, marketing supervisor at Smalley. “We know that

Cadenas Partsolutions www.partsolutions.com

Small components play large role in medical equipment Several companies within the Lesjöfors Group have many years of experience supplying the medical industry. The medical range of European Springs & Pressings (ESP) in the UK includes springs used in the mouthpieces of ventilators, catheter clips to syringe drivers, patient beds and trolley systems, instrumentation and electrical components for medical technologies including de brillators. ESP manufactures a large range of springs and pressings, using advanced, high-volume machinery. At peak, the machines can manufacture ve million springs per hour, and speci c production lines have been repurposed and upscaled to manage orders. Managing director Stuart McSheehy commented, “We have developed tooling and manufactured medical components for the healthcare sector for decades but today’s climate and subsequent increase in demand has highlighted the market share with which we and our customers operate in. Normally validation as a new supplier takes months of trials before volume production but in this very abnormal period we’ve been fast-tracking processes to suit our customers.”

Other spring solutions for the medical industry from Lesjöfors include medical springs for implants and applications such as pacemakers; improved needle protection for catheters; customised wire forms for garment lifting; and springs in healthcare monitoring equipment that sends data from the patient’s home. The Lesjöfors companies that supply components for the healthcare technology and medicine industries meet the highest demands of cleanliness in products and manufacturing environment, and deliveries are assured by sales and production facilities in many countries worldwide. Lesjöfors Group www.lesjoforsab.com

▲ Companies in the Lesjöfors Group can supply components to the medical industry

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July 2020