Custom Medical Wire Baskets

For a recent project, a medical implant manufacturer needed a basket for precision cleaning and passivating of Glenoid Spheres for shoulder implants at the end of the manufacturing process. The outer surface of the spheres are highly polished and must be protected from potential scratching. The parts needed to have guaranteed cradle-to-grave manufacturing lot traceability so the basket design included a latching door so lots can’t be intermixed, and a liquid tight tube on top to protect and carry the lot control documentation through the cleaning process. Machined PEEK plastic trays hold the parts, protecting the critical surfaces from scratches and potential water spotting. Once the parts are loaded on the trays, and the trays are slid into the baskets, the loaded baskets are hung on an automated conveyor into the multi-stage process that ultrasonically cleans, passivates, rinses and dries the parts.