TE Connectivity, a provider of connectors and sensors, has expanded its rapid prototyping capabilities into two existing U.S. facilities to help medical device manufacturers get their devices on the market faster.
The new PROPELUS Prototype Centers in Plymouth, Minnesota, and Wilsonville, Oregon, bring advanced engineering capabilities to existing manufacturing sites, including quick prototypes, 3D printing, polymer extrusion and material testing. They join TE’s existing PROPELUS Prototype Centers, in Galway, Ireland, and Bangalore, India.
The new locations enable easier in-person collaboration between American customers and TE’s engineers to develop medical products that help enable customer devices like interventional catheters and surgical robotics.
Since the first PROPELUS Prototype Center opened in Galway in 2022, TE has worked with medical equipment manufacturers in structural heart, electrophysiology and other critical cardiovascular therapies to develop multiple devices. TE has co-created with many of these customers, moving their product concepts through to high-volume manufacturing. The PROPELUS program expanded earlier this year to Bangalore, where the team supports the Galway center through modeling, simulation and process development critical to prototype design and manufacturing decisions.
