Image courtesy of iStockphoto Innovative measurements to protect patients Developing measurement techniques for small-scale medical components. A large medical device company supplying over 50 countries approached NPL Huddersfield to perform measurement verification on a small component. NPL's highly skilled staff quickly developed an ingenious measurement strategy to measure the part to the required tolerance. The challenge A customer came to NPL Huddersfield with an injection-moulded blood vial that needed to be independently verified to comply with safety regulations. The measurements NPL needed to make were safety-critical as the vial is used during patient blood sampling, where poor measurement could lead to the vial leaking and pose health risks or contamination of the blood sample.

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