Contract manufacturing
A hub for medical device success
BMP Medical is a family-owned plastic manufacturing outsourcing hub for OEM medical devices, components and diagnostics, with 43 years of experience helping customers bridge their capability gaps and get products market ready. Sales and programme manager John Faulkner explains how BMP’s capabilities and new facility are helping leading medical device OEMs, start-ups and universities to develop high-quality devices.
How do you help customers in the medical and diagnostic sectors successfully get their solutions to market? John Faulkner: Whether it’s for a new or existing product, our aim is to solve the customer’s problems, and we have a process that we follow to help us determine how to do that. Customers primarily look to us for injection moulding, injection blow moulding, two- shot moulding, and insert moulding. First, we get all the essential information about the device. For new products, we usually work with outside vendors or the customer themselves to get a technical drawing of the part needed. Here, we need to consider many different factors, including what raw material we are using for the device, and crucially, based on its current design, whether it is able to be manufactured. We’ll bring in a local toolmaker for the next stage, which usually involves designing the mould. We work closely with our customers throughout, making sure we have their full approval before moving forward.
If the product already exists – or, as we call it, a transfer tool – we will do an inspection of the tool and gather as much information as possible about the condition of the materials and any current quality issues that the customer is seeing. Once the design of the tool has been set, the toolmaker will complete the work and then send the mould to BMP. We then validate the tool using a scientific moulding method or decoupled process, and perform a full IQ/ OQ/ PQ validation with stage gates at the end of each for customer approval of parts. We get into the production side.
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A plastic moulding machine used by BMP to form plastic parts for various medical devices.
How has your new facility allowed BMP to expand and serve your customers in new ways? Taking the company from a small operation in Gardner, MA to the facility that we now have in Sterling, MA has been quite the change – we went from 30,000ft2 to 80,000ft2
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In Gardner, we housed five machines in a class eight clean room; now in Sterling, we house 20 machines all in a class eight clean room. We have plans to expand this room to carry up to 40 machines. When we moved in, we upgraded the chiller system so that we could handle more machines and have also expanded our warehouse space. Moving to this new facility allowed us to expand our packaging and assembly capabilities as well. The more solutions that we can offer, the better.
How do you work with customers to provide the best injection molding solution for them? There are many different factors we consider when we look at a new project,
but first and foremost, we need to ensure that we can deliver what the customer requires of us. We evaluate each opportunity carefully, and if it’s a good fit for BMP, we focus on the product and how we can best manufacture and/or assemble it. At BMP, we have a range of different machine sizes, from 100t all the way up to 330t on the injection side of things, and we also offer injection blow moulding. This gives us a unique niche in that we can produce both a bottle and cap all in the same facility – which reduces quality issues a customer may face when sourcing from two different vendors. We always want to provide the best solution for our customers, and the nature of the project itself determines how our team will work with the customer to do that. We are proud to be making components and devices that matter, and of the trust and relationships we’ve built with all of our customers. ●
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