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Your Source For Vendor Qualification

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Verify Your Supply Chain Vendors

It’s a global parts market.  As a leading precision manufacturer, you have hundreds of suppliers (in the United States and beyond) to choose from for your outsourced parts.  But in a competitive and high-stakes industry, in which tolerances can be as minute as a few ten-thousandths of an inch, it’s critical that supply-chain parts be faithful to model and print.

The supply chain is a cost-effective source of small or simple parts, but quality assurance is an ongoing challenge.  Trial-and-error verification of every new supplier is an expensive proposition.

So how can you be confident in your stream of supply chain parts, without breaking the bank and wasting valuable time?
Fast & Economical

Avail yourself of fast, modern, and economical Computer Aided Inspection (CAI) by a credentialed, independent and impartial third party.  Level 3 Inspection is an ISO 9000, AS 9100 and AAAM 44.9 certified engineering and inspection firm, and is among the world’s most competent practitioners of White Light Scanning (WLS)-based CAI.
In addition to contract inspection solutions, we also offer custom-configured systems.  Learn about our SmartInspectionStation™ (SiS™) by watching our YouTube video.
Objective Data, Smartly Managed

By coupling accurate and comprehensive surface scans with intelligent postprocessing, we can provide an objective, clear, and easy-to-understand index of part data, helping you choose quickly and easily from between part suppliers. And by tracing, tracking and trending the data over time, we’ll help you sustain a reliable supply of reliable parts – inexpensively!
Call 561.775.7911 today to schedule a discussion of application parameters and configuration criteria with an L3I engineer.
Copyright © 2011 Level 3 Inspection Midwest LLC, All rights reserved.

A New Paradigm in Orthopedic Cutting Tool Inspection

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Top Cutting Tool Performance

Given the rise of global supply chain competition, along with the projected annual growth rate of 8-10% in the worldwide medical device industry market, U.S. medical device manufacturers must continue their course of innovation.  Best practices, though crystallized, must constantly be reevaluated and revised where appropriate.

With literally hundreds of suppliers across the United States capable of producing spinal and TJR instrumentation, competition for lucrative OEM contracts is fierce.  Implant success depends on a number of factors – among which are the size, depth, and position of the hole in the bone.

So how can you make sure that your broaches and reamers will perform to an exceptional standard?

FORM before FIT

Cutting tool quality is critical and can depend on accuracy and truth-to-form of only a few thousandths of an inch.  Nonstandard or unanticipated wear patterns can have catastrophic consequences.  You as a manufacturer deserve the peace of mind of knowing the full geometry of your tooling – and not merely a few key dimensions.
Gain the Confidence of the Entire Geometry

Overseas suppliers have demonstrated a great willingness to apply inspection methods based on geometric form, and some are beginning to pull ahead of American manufacturers.  Why risk losing the best supplier contracts to other manufacturers by taking a trial-and-error approach to tooling development?
A Call to Action

Given the precarious situation in which the medical device industry finds itself – opportunity in exploding overseas markets coupled with threats from overseas competitors – there’s never been a more critical time to reexamine cherished misconceptions about what constitutes a reasonable standard of speed and quality in tooling development.  First movers will dominate share in their product category – perhaps permanently.  Let’s work together that they may continue to be fellow Americans.
Learn about the SmartInspectionStation™ (SiS™) by watching our SmartInspectionStation™ YouTube video.

Call 561.775.7911 today to schedule a discussion of application parameters and configuration criteria with an L3I engineer.
Copyright © 2011 Level 3 Inspection Midwest LLC, All rights reserved.
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