Foster-Miller has serviced the medical and pharmaceutical industries for decades in a variety of capacities. It is one of our commercial marketing pillars. Our customers include:  Baxter Healthcare, Bayer, Johnson & Johnson, Roche Vitamins and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.  What Foster-Miller offers is an engineering capability that enables our clients to develop and introduce new products or develop a new process and equipment that allows them to bring a new medical or pharmaceutical product to market fast.

Our examples reflect the fact that we are involved in many different niches of this market segment. Foster-Miller has been instrumental in the development of products and processes, including equipment design and fabrication in the following categories:

• Pharmaceutical laboratory automation
• Artificial hearts and ventricular assist devices
• Orthopaedic devices
• Custom equipment design and build for a wide variety of medical products
• Diagnostics industry; developing both the analytical devices and disposable products.
• Consumer product development: tooth brushes, biopsy tools, insulin injector pens
• Development of iontophoretic patches
• New biomaterials
• Responsive gels for improved patient support