Medicine

Medical engineering is one of the most promising industries in the industrialised countries. Characterised by innovative technologies, this industry contributes to an improved healthcare worldwide.

Medical device do not only save lives and improve quality of life thanks to innovative products. Due to the ever growing cost pressure, hospitals and doctor’s surgeries tend to use more new technologies to promote their increase in productivity. Often, the technology is highly sensitive which is why production requirements are accordingly high.

Böllhoff - Your expert in fastenings and assembly technology for the medical engineering industry

Global competition in the medical engineering industry results in high costs and innovation pressure. Therefore, it is innovative ability and technical potential that are the basis for medical engineering manufacturers’ and suppliers’ chances of success.

The acceleration of technical progress as well as the satisfaction of customers needs lead to an ever advancing technologisation and to a growing variety of versions. As a provider of complete solutions and systems, Böllhoff offers products and services for all areas of the medical engineering value-added chain.

During their partnership, with the ECOTECH service, Böllhoff has already realised several project of application engineering in cooperation with Fresenius. Special tapping screws are for example used in different components of the devices to reduce the number of different parts as well as assembly times and costs at the same time increasing process reliability.

+ ECOTECH - Application engineering support

With the ECOSIT® procurement system, Böllhoff regulary supplies the numerous unloading points in the customer’s production with most different DIN parts, parts as per drawing, fastening technologies of our own production as well as with other C-parts. In practice, the customers’ process costs were considerably reduced.

+ ECOSIT® - Procurement systems

The Böllhoff supply system at B. Braun is provided with „SmartBin® technology“. The items to be stored and managed are filled into containers and boxes at the customer’s premesis. Each of these boxes is placed on electronic scales whose weight is daily checked online by Böllhoff, to ascertain the current on-site stock at B. Braun. As soon as the calculated stock in a box drops below the defined replacement limit, the items are automatically ordered and supplied. With SmartBin®, B. Braun has reduced storage area, storage costs as well as procurement costs and moreover benefits from the multiple evaluation options.

+ SmartBin® - Digital procurement