Catheter Design and Development
Your Partner from Start to Finish
Fully Customizable
Product Development Process
We fully customize our product development process based on the specific needs of your project. Where others may be bogged down by overly complex and rigid processes, the VitalPath team understands the need to be flexible and responsive to keep timelines on track to meet key milestones.
We use a responsive, problem-solving approach to
Rapid Prototyping
Our expertise, capabilities, and streamlined process allow us to quickly build complex catheter and delivery solutions.
- Custom prototypes—FAST
- Rapid design, build, and test prototype cycles
- Typically, 2–3 runs of 10–20 samples each are needed before design freeze
- In-house component capabilities enable quick turnaround
Our Engineers will act as
An Extension of Your Team
Our experienced engineers have the deep technical knowledge needed to take your challenging concept and deliver a manufacturable device.
We collaborate with you to:
- Improve your design to meet manufacturing capabilities
- Verify manufacturing processes are capable
- Validate repeatability and reliability
- Execute per our mature ISO 13485 quality systems
We offer a wide range of secondary operations in house, saving time and streamlining your supply chain.
Our custom, complex component capabilities include:
- Complex device assemblies
- Braiding & coiling
- Curved & steerable catheters
- Complex extrusions
- Laser welding and cutting
- Wire forming & ablation
- Nitinol forming
Support through ramp
Flexible, high-mix manufacturing
We can handle all your manufacturing needs, from pilot production through volume manufacturing.
Specializing in high-mix manufacturing, we have the flexible people, processes, and systems to meet the challenges of manufacturing scale-up.
Benefits of high-mix manufacturing include:
- Accommodates design changes typical with launching new technology
- Lot-release quality systems speed time to clinical trials and market launch
- Supports customer during growth, as important new technologies may spend years in low-volume production
- Provides a manufacturing pathway supporting all phases of growth
Once we build your shaft or delivery system to your specifications and it performs as intended, we can manufacture your finished device in our FDA-registered facility. Or, we can hand it back to you for the finishing touches, whether that’s loading a stent or adding a handle.
Our production manufacturing services include:
- Process development
- Verification
- Validation
- Scalable QA systems
Contract Manufacturing
Volume Manufacturing and Finished Device Assembly
Over 90% of our work is volume subassembly and finished device production including dock to stock agreements with Tier 1 OEMs.
We assemble complex catheter devices including fine wire assemblies, testing, packaging and labeling.
ISO 13485:2016 Certified
FDA Registered
300+ Employees
3 Minneapolis Locations
ISO 7 & 8 Cleanrooms
Let's Partner
We cannot wait to collaborate with you at our dedicated design center for real time feedback during rapid prototyping, design iterations, testing, and more!
