Maneuvering through the human anatomy can be a challenging endeavor. Using a quick and iterative process, our engineering teams can design and develop a single-use endoscope with multiple angles and flexibility. Steering options include 1‑way, 2‑way or 4‑way articulation and up to a full 270 degrees of mobility and customized 3D curvature. There is an array of materials that can be implemented to suit the appropriate application. Our engineering teams can help assess those needs and offer unique and effective options.
Biomerics offers the following manufacturing capabilities that can be customized to your endoscopy development plan:
- Design engineering capabilities
- Steerability
- 1‑way, 2‑way, 4‑way, off-axis & pull wires
- Custom 3D curvature
- Coil pipes cables (compression coils)
- Cam/pulley optimization for articulation control
- Manufacturing capabilities
- Reflow shafts
- Laser cut bending sections & shafts
- Injection-molded bending sections
- Braid-reinforced bending sections
- Assembled bending sections
- Pull wires weld or bond
- Compression coils weld or bond
- Working channels (reflow & extruded)
- Braid reinforced
- Coil reinforced
- Non-reinforced
Engage with our catheters and steerables team to discover the possibilities!
Biomerics can integrate a wide range of high- and low-resolution camera configurations including 320x320, 400x400 or 800x800 pixels, with 720p or 1080p resolution. We also have experience with cameras as small as 0.65 mm x 0.65 mm Our engineering teams can help assess your endoscopy optical needs and recommend options based on cost and performance. Our video imaging interfaces include analog, MIPI and LVDS, with up to 60 frames per second.
Biomerics offers the following manufacturing capabilities that can be customized to your endoscopy development plan:
- Design engineering capabilities
- Camera selection as small as 0.65mm x 0.65mm
- IMATEST, imaging targets, qualifying images to ISO standards, image system quality
- Light optimization
- Plastic optical fibers (POF) & LED lighting
- Light diffusion lens
- Micromolding
- Microassembly — distal tip/camera assembly
- Microsoldering
- Steerability — bend section curve designs
With technology continually changing, single-use endoscopes can take advantage of various lighting technologies and their unique benefits, including longer-lasting lights, increased brightness, reduced heat production and lower costs. Biomerics engineers can help you select the correct lighting source for your endoscopy project. Our teams can match the application and process to the best quality components needed in each endoscope. Biomerics has access to a range of high-end lighting technologies and can integrate them into the device’s distal tip or handle, or the VPU.
Biomerics offers the following manufacturing capabilities that can be customized to your endoscopy development plan:
- Design engineering capabilities
- LED lighting (tip, box, handle)
- Light fiber design
- Light controls
- Heat management
- Lens design
- Optics performance
- Manufacturing capabilities
- Fiber optics cutting & finishing
- Distal tip assembly
- Insertion tube assembly
- Micro lens molding
- Soldering
- Adhesive bonding
- Light quality & image assessment
The way a device feels in your hand is key to designing a functional and ergonomic endoscopy device. Biomerics offers handle design capabilities and considers various features and needs, including integrating irrigation, insuflation and any suction requirements. Biomerics can also design and implement essential needs, integrate proper buttons, and design and source all the device handle’s internal electrical components. We can also incorporate any design to match your corporate style guide.
Biomerics offers the following manufacturing capabilities that can be combined in your endoscopy development plan:
- Design engineering capabilities
- Ergonomic handle design/thumb lever & knobs
- Circuit board design (PCB)
- Mechanical actuation
- Locking technology
- Fluid management integration
- Design for manufacturability
- Electronics integration
- Assembly fixture design
- Strain relief design
- Manufacturing capabilities
- Injection molding
- Pad printing — single & multicolor
- Assembled bending sections
- Vibration/ultrasonic welding, snap together & crush pin
- Reflow assemblies
- Working channels
- Flow controls
- Deflection controls
- 3D printed & rapid prototyping development
Biomerics is actively expanding its service offerings and investing capital to scale and enhance its custom VPU capabilities. By utilizing state-of-the-art image processing technologies, Biomerics delivers high-performance, custom-engineered VPU box builds designed to support evolving customer needs. VPU solutions offer custom-designed monitors, proprietary circuit boards, and purpose-built user interfaces, enabling greater flexibility and differentiation. Our electronics division brings deep expertise in system integration, ensuring cabling and connectors are thoughtfully engineered for safety, reliability, and long-term performance. Additional capabilities include the development of touch-screen and mobile-enabled solutions, further extending portability and unlocking new use cases.
Biomerics offers the following manufacturing capabilities that can be combined in your endoscopy development plan:
- Design engineering capabilities
- Enclosure design
- Cables & interconnects
- Display
- Software design & validation
- Wireless connectivity
- Image processing
- Power management
- Fluid management (pump & vacuum)
- Shielding
- Circuit board design
- Manufacturing capabilities
- Enclosure molding
- Box assembly
- Testing & validation
- Service & repair
Proper packaging is a requirement for any medical device. Biomerics Engineering teams can do all of the legwork, from selecting the highest quality trays or pouches and configure them with the appropriate carton and shippers boxes to offering a full validation for shipping and sterilization requirements. Our engineers are dedicated to making sure our customers needs are met or exceeded.
All of our products are packaged and assembled in ISO 13485: 2016 certified cleanrooms.
- Design engineering capabilities
- Packaging design & labeling
- Validation
- Manufacturing capabilities
- Assembly (in-house, including low-cost options)
- Form, fill & seal trays, pouches and/or backer card
- Sterilization management
Engage with our catheters and steerables team to discover the possibilities!
Bronchoscopes offer an endoscopic technique used to visualize the inside of the airways for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. A bronchoscope enters the airway, usually through the nose or mouth. It is used occasionally through a tracheostomy. It allows the practitioner to examine the patient’s airways for abnormalities, such as foreign bodies, bleeding, tumors, or inflammation.
Using our vertically integrated and custom manufacturing approach, Biomerics can design and develop a single-use, disposable bronchoscope with the needed tools and components to effectively assess patient needs.
Cholangioscopes provide X‑ray imaging when other technologies do not offer adequate diagnosis or therapeutic intervention and require the ability to see direct visualization. Cholangioscopes examine a variety of anatomy, including the biliary, liver, and pancreatic ducts.
Using our vertically integrated and custom manufacturing approach, Biomerics can design and develop a single-use, cholangioscopes with the needed tools and components to assess patient needs.
Cystoscopes offer a Urinary and GI specialist to view inside the urethra and bladder, which otherwise would be more challenging to view. Cystoscopes utilize internal technologies to see detailed images of the urethra and kidney lining.
Using our vertically integrated and custom manufacturing approach, Biomerics can design and develop a single-use, cystoscope with the needed tools and components to effectively assess patient needs.
Duodenoscope is a diagnostic endoscopic procedure that visualizes the upper part of the gastrointestinal tract down to the duodenum. It is considered a minimally invasive procedure since it does not require an incision into one of the central body cavities and does not require any significant recovery after the procedure.
Using our vertically integrated and custom manufacturing approach, Biomerics can design and develop a single-use, duodenoscope with the needed tools and components to effectively assess patient needs.
Nephroscopes are very similar to their sister device, the ureteroscope, and cystoscope. Both offer a non-surgical way to examine the kidneys’ inside and treat certain upper urinary tract conditions. Nephroscopy uses a thin, flexible tube part that is inserted into the skin through a small incision.
Using our vertically integrated and custom manufacturing approach, Biomerics can design and develop a single-use, nephroscope with the needed tools and components to effectively assess patient needs.
Ureteroscopes are used in routine medical procedures performed by a skilled urologist who needs to access the urinary tract or investigate other urinary tract problems.
Using our vertically integrated and custom manufacturing approach, Biomerics can design and develop a single-use, disposable ureteroscope with the needed tools and components to effectively assess patient needs.
QUALITY
Customers can utilize their own Quality system or use our own unique and flexible QMS system to manage all aspects of the design and development process, ensuring the Endoscopy project meets the necessary FDA requirements.
Biomerics operates over 150,000 sq. ft of cleanroom space to satisfy your assembly, sub-assembly, and packaging requirements.
All Biomerics cleanrooms are ISO 13485:2016 certified. LEARN MORE
LABS
Biomerics operates three world-class lab environments and utilizes state-of-the-art, precision-based instrumentation for an endoscope’s essential development. Our Light and Video Lab, Application Engineering Lab, and our Quality/ Metrology Labs all operate cross-functionally to support any device’s needs and requirements. LEARN MORE
RAPID PROTOTYPING
Rapid prototyping is an essential element to a robust and iterative design and development process. Biomerics operates key technologies in our Engineering lab to construct simple and complex components that support and accelerate the development process and move closer towards a commercialized product with speed and agility. LEARN MORE
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Program Managers (PM) are available at all six Biomerics facilities. Each PM becomes a single point of contact and works directly with the customer to define the project scope. PMs can access an entire network of internal engineers by interacting with our cross-functional teams, at all facilities, as part of the development process, thereby providing the insight and expertise needed to move a product through the process.