Oxnard, Calif. – Sept. 14, 2010 – The launch of IntriMed
Technologies and the opening of IntriMed’s first state-of-the-industry
Innovation Center in Oxnard, Calif. were announced today by IntriPlex
Technologies, a global leader in the design and manufacture of ultra-precise
components for the data storage and healthcare industries. Founded on a 23 year
heritage of engineering innovation, IntriMed (www.intrimed.com) focuses
exclusively on delivering outsourcing solutions to the medical device manufacturing
industry, and delivers on three value pillars – ongoing innovation, deep
collaboration, and engineering and operational excellence.
As with any industry, the medical device industry continues
to evolve and adapt to ever-changing market dynamics. Faced with healthcare
reform, a new medical device tax, rapid technology advancement and more
stringent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversight, original equipment
manufacturers (OEMs) are increasingly looking towards strategic, long-term
outsourcing partnerships as a means to temper these changes and achieve their
revenue, cost and competitive objectives more rapidly.
Leveraging design innovation and manufacturing excellence
that has resulted in 44 product and process patents and over 9 billion precision
components, IntriMed is well-positioned to help medical device OEMs address
these challenges. IntriMed provides deep engineering expertise to support
product development from initial concept through volume production and
assembly, and taps into OEM objectives to create highly-specialized design and
process solutions that result in reduced costs, faster times to market,
decreased failure rates and competitive differentiation.
IntriMed’s new Innovation
Center will support the
company’s full range of services, including product design and development, rapid
prototyping, advanced tooling, precision manufacturing, secondary processing
and cleaning, custom metrology and final assembly.
“Medical device manufacturers are adjusting to a ‘new
normal’ of doing more with less,” said Larry J. Czapla, IntriMed’s president,
“but for us this is pretty familiar ground. We’ve managed to help manufacturers
in the disk drive industry save millions of dollars and stay ahead of a huge
technology curve by laying the foundation for manufacturing success early on.
From the outset, we work closely with the development team to create a tailored
approach to design and manufacturing, and to help them achieve new levels of
quality, technology and cost-effectiveness.”
IntriMed’s team of executives holds extensive leadership
experience at the world’s top medical device companies. The executive team
includes Larry J. Czapla, President; Lawney Falloon, Chief Executive Officer;
Damon Brink, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, Engineering;
Larry Ellis, Chief Financial Officer; Andrew Lux, Ph.D., Senior Vice President,
Operations and Manufacturing; and Howard R. Baker, Vice President, Business
Development and Commercial Operations.
For more information about IntriMed Technologies, please
visit www.intrimed.com.
About IntriMed Technologies
IntriMed Technologies designs, manufactures and assembles ultra-precision
mechanical components critical to medical device functionality. We draw on more
than 23 years of experience helping manufacturers do more with less – providing
innovative product and process design, meticulous quality systems, and highly
scalable, fully compliant manufacturing capabilities. The result is truly
differentiated medical devices produced more cost effectively.
Think “embedded engineering”: leveraging our considerable
resources so our customers can better focus theirs. To learn more, visit
intrimed.com.