Case Study: Optics Assembly For Biomedical Industry

Learn more about how we worked with a customer in the optics industry to manufacture complex components with serialized inspection requirements.

Component Application: These precision-machined components are part of a complex optics assembly used in biomedical and laboratory applications.

Customer Problem: These parts required tight tolerances between features machined at different angles and operations to ensure the alignment of critical components within the assembly. Additionally, all components were machined from corrosion-resistant stainless steel or exotic alloys specific to the optics industry.

Due to the devices' application in the bio-medical industry, our customer required a manufacturer that could supply extensive documentation, including part serialization, 100% inspection of all components, and complete process traceability. Lastly, our customer required a vendor that could provide rapid prototyping services for initial test units while also building processes to handle their production demands as their volume scaled.

LHM Solution: We developed manufacturing processes utilizing our 5-axis machining equipment to meet our customer's quality and delivery requirements. By utilizing 5-axis machining, we could supply production-quality parts at prototyping speeds by minimizing the need for complex fixtures traditionally required for parts of this nature.

Combining our extensive experience working with difficult alloys and our top-quality manufacturing equipment, including a Hermle C250 5-axis machining center, we were able to manufacture parts with exceptional surface quality and dimensional accuracy.

We also could offer 100% traceability of components by following processes in our quality management system, modeled off the ISO 13485:2016 Medical Standard. Once components were manufactured, we leveraged our temperature-controlled quality lab with CMM measuring capabilities to verify all required specifications before shipment. Over 600 critical inspection dimensions were measured and documented per assembly to ensure component compliance and provide our customer's engineering team with critical tolerance stack-up and design insight.