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Innovation + Automation =
Your Competitive Advantage
The Only Thing We Know Better Than Brushes…
Is How To Make Them
After years and thousands of projects we’ve developed, we’ve learned a thing or two about execution. Work with us and we’ll show you step-by-step the fastest, most efficient and flat-out most enjoyable way to make your concepts a reality. For more than 60 years, Sanderson MacLeod engineers have been creating twisted wire brush solutions. In-house tooling and equipment manufacturing shortens prototype development time and ensures product confidentiality. It’s easy to begin the prototype development process. If you have specifics about your brush prototype, including dimensions, you can contact us or fill out the form here to start the prototype process. Contact Sanderson MacLeod today to get started!
Closed Floor Policies… Protecting Your IP Like Nowhere Else
Great ideas don’t come along every day. When they do, keeping the sourcing and methods of manufacturing confidential is vitally important.
For this reason, Sanderson MacLeod operates a ‘closed floor” manufacturing facility in order to protect the intellectual property belonging to both them and their clients. All manufacturing equipment is serviced in-house by our engineers and mechanics, keeping production running efficiently and on pace.
While others use 50-year-old methods to make and assemble twisted wire parts, we are actively automating processes, integrating robotics, and using state of the art vision systems.
Custom Automation Showcase
The largest risk for medical equipment damage can occur during cleaning with a brush that is inserted into the equipment. Traditional brush tips can fall off, sharp core wires can protrude from the tip, and the tips can bend and break. We solved these problems by looking outside of the brush industry and collaborating with experts in materials joining engineering.
In addition to this innovative design, we produce a brush tip with a mirror-like smooth surface, so the tip can’t fall off, the core wire won’t protrude through the tip, and the dimensions and orientation are always consistent. The ZTip twisted wire medical brush is created in one in-line, fully automated process, which reduces internal inspection time and costs.
Rosie Noble
Automation Almost As Awesome As It’s Namesake
When Rosie Noble Retired After 50 Years,
We Knew She Was Going To Be Impossible To Replace.
After all, she covered almost seven miles a day walking back and forth in 14-foot lengths making medical stylets. We know this because of an inside bet that required her to wear a pedometer for a week. Goes without saying a lot of money changed hands that day. With that, one thing was clear to everybody.
People like Rosie don’t come along every day. But…
As Rosie’s retirement approached, we started thinking. Not about how to replace her (as if we could), but how we could apply our machine and brush making knowledge to help our operators work faster, easier, and more efficiently. You see, we don’t see technology advancements as ways of replacing good people. Rather, we see it as having an opportunity to give some of the most experienced and talented brush makers in the world some cool proprietary tools and technology to do their jobs even better.
Whatever happened to Rosie? Well, we still see her around town…Walking, of course. And we commissioned our new automatic stylet machine (“Rosie”) and celebrated the accomplishment of her career and our automation future with balloons, cake and her family in attendance.
While the machine bears Rosie’s name, it really symbolizes the dedication and hard work the employees of Sanderson MacLeod, Inc. have put in over the last 50+ years. Appreciating our past, learning from our predecessors and custom innovating automation for the future.
For Sanderson MacLeod, this sounds like a win/win all around.