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Design and engineering

Leverage our patient-centered design approach, domain expertise, and deep understanding of complex product requirements across six global medical design and engineering centers. Flex’s team of human factors experts, design engineers provide cross-industry knowledge of a range of technologies, including connectivity, edge artificial intelligence, and sensor integration. We also specialize in multidisciplinary systems combining optics for medical devices such as imaging, illumination, and lasers.

Manufacturing

Advanced manufacturing

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Flex’s focused portfolio of advanced manufacturing technologies — including simulation, automation, robotics, digitization, and additive manufacturing — provide a competitive edge to meet your time-to-market, resiliency, and end-market requirements. Our global footprint includes 21 medical manufacturing sites across four regions and 13 countries, providing medical customers the ability to quickly adjust to changing regional, trade, and manufacturing dynamics.

With 14 FDA-certified sites and 21 sites with ISO 13485:2016 certification — the internationally recognized quality management benchmark for medical device manufacturers — Flex enables customers to meet the highest quality and compliance standards for regulated medical products. Customers utilize our extensive precision plastics experience in injection molding and mold fabrication to produce and deliver the highest quality products, every time.

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Supply Chain

Supply chain and logistics

Flex leverages our global supply chain expertise, capabilities, and digital tools to enable customers to deliver medical products to market with less complexity and risk. With a global supply chain that spans 4,000 global and local supplier relationships and 1 million parts, we help partners de-risk their complex component and inventory strategies and needs. Our vertically integrated capabilities, including advanced electronics assembly, components and materials subassembly, and systems integration, enable customers to quickly scale to high volume production.

Aftermarket returns, repairs, and recycling services

Post-production and post-sale services

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Flex enables market-leading healthcare brands to deliver a seamless customer experience and embrace sustainable practices. Offering value-added fulfillment and a global network of fulfillment centers, Flex enables the configuration and fulfillment of products for specific market and channel needs. Our integrated reverse logistics and circular economy services, including CO2 analytics, returns and screening, repair, refurbishment, enable customers to extend the life of medical products at scale.

Flex Medical Equipment Healthcare Solutions

Medical equipment

Delivering large-scale medical equipment and high-volume healthcare consumables and disposables.

Healthcare Solutions: Medical Devices and Consumer Health

Medical devices & consumer health

Providing intelligent, connected medical devices that help consumers and healthcare providers better manage care.

Flex Healthcare solutions for drug delivery

Drug delivery

Enabling drug delivery products that are easy to use, accurate, smart, and connected.

Our awards and recognitions

Flex’s patient-centered design approach has received multiple industry recognitions including Medical Design Excellence Awards and International Design Excellence Awards for products ranging from a surgical navigation system and a breast biopsy table, to a robotic guidewire delivery system and a pneumatic walking boot.

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