Steve Rozow, Co-founder and General ManagerMach Medical, an orthopedic medical device contract manufacturer, addresses these requirements with its innovative solutions. The company focuses on helping OEMs reduce inventory and shorten time to market through order execution or capability enhancement rather than M&A activity. It has developed a highly flexible and scalable manufacturing platform and incorporated a higher degree of automation into it for improved efficiency.
Mach Medical addresses the high inventory requirement problem with its proprietary High-Velocity Manufacturing process. This process enables it to manufacture implants with a three-week production lead time and in order quantities as low as a single unit.
“We have the capability to manufacture according to clients’ quantity and timeline requirements in a highly economical way. We’ve accomplished this feat by finding ways to drive machine set-up time to virtually zero and by accelerating inspection and documentation activity through automation,” says Steve Rozow, co-founder and general manager, Mach Medical.
Simultaneously, to tackle the time to market problem and automate most of the work associated with the manufacturing engineering transfer process, Mach Medical collaborates with Siemens and Microsoft. This collaboration has empowered it to conduct detailed engineering transfer work (detailed CNC programming and QMS documentation) for one part in a part family, and the work for other parts is automatically done by its system. Mach Medical has the capability to save up to 12 months or more in situations involving casting or forging tooling development processes.
To up its ante, Mach Medical uses OsteoSync Ti, a highperformance, lower-cost porous ingrowth material from its sister company, SITES Medical. Relative to 3D printing, the material is more scalable and facilitates very stable and predictable manufacturing processes.
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We have the capability to manufacture according to clients’ quantity and timeline requirements in a highly economical way. We’ve accomplished this feat by finding ways to drive machine set-up time to virtually zero and by accelerating inspection and documentation activity through automation
“With our three week lead times and no MOQs capability, we demonstrate warehouse inventory savings ranging from 77 percent to 84 percent when it comes to spine and knee implants,” says David Anderson, co-founder and marketing lead, Mach Medical. “Taken a step further, with some templating on the part of the surgeon, we make only the implants for a given surgery and supply them on time, eliminating the need to maintain a huge surgical facility inventory as well. In essence, we are doing just-in-time manufacturing.”
In another example, the company has leveraged its High Velocity Engineering Transfer capability to complete all CNC machine programming and DHF/QMS documentation as well as deliver alphalaunch quantities of trauma/reconstructive plate implants (24 SKUs) within a four-week period for an extremities-focused OEM.
One of the biggest contributors to the company’s success is its culture. At Mach Medical, each team member has a personal stake in its overall success. This shared ownership fuels a passion and commitment to excellence that transforms projects into something truly remarkable. Also, its leadership team has spent decades in the industry. Their extensive expertise plays a vital role in providing customers with an unparalleled level of service and results.
