| Injected molded plastic parts, such as artificial | | | | cardiovascular medical products, such as leads |
| knee and hip joints, specially engineered small- to | | | | that connect to life-saving devices such as |
| medium-sized medical parts, and plastic injected | | | | implantable defibrillators and pacemakers, says the |
| syringes, pill containers and breathing apparatus | | | | intricacy of modern machine tools makes all its |
| devices are all essential to modern medicine and | | | | work possible. The small, detailed shapes with |
| personal health care. Implant devices such as | | | | exceptional finishes demanded by modern health |
| artificial hip joints are frequently made from | | | | industry consumers simply could not be made |
| strong, tough but hard to machine titanium and | | | | without the work performed by modern CNC |
| cobalt chrome stainless steel. | | | | machine tools. |
| Much of this technological improvement simply | | | | Health care and orthopedic health professionals |
| would not have been possible without the machine | | | | recognize that technologically progressive |
| tool advancements that have occurred to help | | | | equipment and methods are vital to making |
| generate these medical applications. And many of | | | | continued advancements toward superior health |
| those industries and jobs are located in the | | | | care in the United States. Prioritizing the |
| heartland of America, according to applications | | | | investment in machine tool technology will yield |
| engineers at Makino, a global provider of advanced | | | | even greater health care benefits and options to |
| machine tool technology. | | | | an aging American population that continues to |
| This is an area of future manufacturing growth. | | | | grow. |
| One major designer and developer of | | | | |