Educational Resources

Read white papers, technical tips, how-tos, and success stories of how we've partnered with customers to achieve their goals.

Complex Extrusions

Quick-turn development to production of complex medical extrusions.

3P Playbook

Learn how Viant’s best-in-class 3P deployment can help you boost efficiency, speed time to market, and save costs.

It’s All About Speed to Market

From manufacturing transfers to new product introductions, Viant can help accelerate your time to market.

ViaLaunch™ New Product Introduction & Transfer Process

Looking for a partner for a legacy product manufacturing transfer or a new product introduction? Trust Viant to leverage complex project experience to drive speed to market and program success.

Lean Product Launch: 3 Ways 3P Events Can Reduce Waste, Risk and Time to Market

For more than a decade, Viant teams have been leveraging Lean Product Launch techniques to improve product quality, lower cost, and speed time to market. 3P is a tool that has been particularly effective for our customers.

Motion Preservation Spinal Disc Implants

With over 10 years of experience and more than 170,000 spinal disc implants made, trust Viant’s Orthopedic Implant and Coatings Center of Excellence for your motion preservation spinal implant program.

Site Tour: Wheeling, Illinois

Virtual tour of our complex machining and tube fabrication site, including a Center of Excellence for Arthroscopy/ENT shavers & burrs, in Wheeling, Illinois

Site Tour: Suzhou, China

Virtual tour of our thermoplastic injection molding & assembly facility in Suzhou, China

Top 3 Benefits of Working with an Integrated Tubing Supplier

The tube is the foundation of many medical devices. Is your tubing supplier taking a holistic approach that will help you avoid costly missteps?

Site Tour: D&D West

Virtual tour of our Design & Development Center – West in Fremont, CA

What’s next for nitinol tubing?

A novel technique for mechanically joining nitinol to other metal tubing could reduce cost and mitigate risk.

Could Lean Product Development Get You to Market Faster?

Every manufacturing engineer is familiar with The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production. First published in 1990, this classic book was the first to detail the Toyota Production System from which the principles of Lean Production were derived. The authors predicted that Lean Production would become the gold standard not only in the auto industry, but in every industry worldwide, including healthcare.

Innovative Design & End-to-End Capabilities Help Reduce Complexity & Boost Efficiency for Orthopedic Instrument System

A large, market-leading orthopedics company turned to Viant for help in developing instruments for a high-profile, integrated joint replacement system.

Lean Product Launch with 3P Event Reduces Risk & Compresses Timeline for Energy-Based Device

A small startup had a prototype for a system to treat the symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and was looking for a partner to help it take the next step.

Lean Product Development Dramatically Accelerates Time to Market for Laparoscopic Device

Large surgical technology company needed to accelerate market release of novel flexible monopolar scissors for new laparoscopic surgical system.

Design, Manufacturing & Supply Chain Expertise Fuels Stability and Growth of Arthroscopic Product Line

A large supplier of orthopedic devices obtained an established arthroscopic product line as part of an acquisition.

Design Collaboration & Quick-Turn Tube Fabrication Enable Faster Design Freeze for Surgical Device

A large surgical technology company was facing a competitive threat and needed to rapidly re-engineer one of its market-leading devices to lower the cost of use.

Novel Articulating Tissue Sealer Design Gains First-to-Market Advantage

A large surgical device company was planning to commercialize a first-of-its-kind articulating vessel sealer to strengthen its portfolio in the advanced energy device segment of the laparoscopic surgery market.

Advanced Energy Device Engineered with Ultra-Precise Tubing Tolerances for Superior Performance

A global surgical technology company needed an external partner to help develop and manufacture tubing for an advanced energy device with measurably better performance than other leading devices.

Key Component for Stent Delivery System Gets Innovative Solution

A leading, multinational medical technology company was seeking a strategic partner to develop and manufacture a key component of its next-generation, catheter-based stent delivery system: a tapered tip flexible enough to pass through the tortuous vessel.

Bridge Tooling Solution Allows Early Delivery of Complex Surgical Device

A leading multinational medical device company turned to Viant for a large tooling/injection-molding project: manufacturing all the plastic parts for a single-use device for minimally invasive surgery. The success of the entire program hinged on the technical feasibility of manufacturing one particularly complex plastic part.