Ordered yesterday, needed today

The customer

Connected Consumables is a medical technology company from Dresden that wants to make infusion therapy more digital and therefore safer and faster. The idea: connect data directly with medical disposables. Until now, medical consumables such as tubes and connectors have been plain plastic parts without any connectivity. This creates additional manual work for medical staff and sources of error when administering medication.

Connected Consumables’ patented technology adds data transmission by inductive coupling to the standard Luer connector while remaining fully compatible. The first application is oncology: a connected infusion system – consisting of smart consumables and a multi-input infusion pump – is intended to check whether the right drug is connected, automatically control sequential drug administration according to the therapy plan and document it in real time. In this way, Connected Consumables aims not only to turn simple products into an end-to-end system solution but also to increase patient safety.*

Task: As fast as possible – ideally yesterday

Developing new medical technology means working in short cycles: adapt the design, make parts, test, improve. Every day a component is delayed slows down the entire development. Connected Consumables’ requirement was therefore always the same: precise milled parts, as fast as possible.

Implementation: Short paths, fast production

Connected Consumables requested the milled parts via online-cnc.com, and we had them made and delivered. The cooperation went hand in hand: questions about drawings were clarified directly, and production started without detours. So the parts arrived exactly when the team needed them for the next development step.

Result: More speed for development

Connected Consumables was able to concentrate on what matters: developing a system that is intended to relieve nursing staff and increase patient safety*. For us it is a special motivation to contribute to innovation in medical technology with fast and precise milled parts.

* The infusion system described is under development. It is currently not placed on the market as a medical device and not approved for use on patients. The functions and safety benefits mentioned describe development goals; they have not yet been fully validated and may change. The design shown is not final. The development of the connected infusion system is co-funded by the European Union as part of the A-Cure project.