Medical

The medical industry produces a wide range of highly complicated and precise equipment used for many different applications from scanning a patient, transporting them, performing intricate surgeries and many more.

The applications mentioned above all require movement of the equipment to perform the tasks they are designed for and due to the nature of the importance and accuracy of some of these tasks they simply can not afford to be let down by the nuts and bolts that are holding them together. The use of Wedge locking washers removes the concern for the fasteners coming loose and allows the machines to operate at high speeds with reduced maintenance requirements which all contribute to the equipment’s efficiency.

Applications would include the use of WL Series wedge locking washers in Scanning equipment to maintain the bolted joints that are moving around all the time and require the ultimate level of consistency. Other applications would be the joints on medicals beds and general applications such as castors and attachments to hospital beds that are subjected to dynamic loads when moving position of being transferred around the hospital.