Finding Better Ways to Heal and to Manufacture
Medical device manufacturer, Pioneer
Surgical, has built a reputation for
innovation and responsiveness with help
from highly skilled people and powerful
CAMWorks® software
Medical device manufacturer, Pioneer
Surgical, has built a reputation for
innovation and responsiveness with help
from highly skilled people and powerful
CAMWorks® software
Discontent can be a powerful thing. It was
for Dr. Matthew Songer. Twenty years ago
it spurred him to create Pioneer Surgical
(www.pioneersurgical.com), a medical
device manufacturing company based in
Marquette, MI. Songer, an orthopedic
surgeon, wasn’t satisfied with some of the
orthopedic devices available to him at the
time. As he saw it, one of their key
drawbacks was the use of monofilament
wire to attach devices to bone. Exposed to
real life stresses, the wire would
occasionally slide, or loosen, or even
break, all of which was bad news for the
patient. For Songer, ‘occasionally’ was just
too often.
THE CLIENT
Company: Pioneer Surgical’s
Headquarters: Alachua, FL, USA
Industry: Medical Equipment
THE OBJECTIVE
For
one thing, prototyping is a major aspect of
our operations, much more so than in
most other types of manufacturing.
THE SOLUTION
provides
an array of tools to simplify and automate
even complex programming tasks,
speeding design and programming
changes. Like a great many other firms,
Pioneer employs the popular SolidWorks®
design software, and the fact that
CAMWorks is integrated seamlessly within
SolidWorks yields a number of benefits.
“It really didn’t take us as long as I thought it would take to become proficient,” he continues. Along with the intuitive nature of the software, the training and support received from the CAMWorks distributor played a key role in Pioneer’s relatively rapid ramping up. “I’ve got to give them very high marks,”