One of Saturday Night Live’s (SNL) funniest skits from the 1970s was “Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber.”  This seven-minute spoof was based on the premise that medieval barbers also served as doctors who attempted to cure their patients’ ailments with bloodletting, animal waste, and other crazy tactics.

While the skit may have presented a slightly distorted (albeit hilarious) view of early medical practices, it wasn’t entirely baseless. It’s been well documented that bloodletting was a widely accepted medical treatment for thousands of years, and medieval barbers really did serve double duty as medical practitioners.

The practice of medicine has come a long way since medieval times and medical manufacturing has advanced along with it. Today’s medical manufacturers use 7-axis machines, 3D printing, and artificial intelligence to achieve unprecedented levels of complexity and precision.

And just as medical manufacturers have embraced emerging technologies, so has Sirois Tool. We’re consistently evaluating and implementing new software, processes, and equipment to ensure we’re producing gages, tooling, fixtures, parts, and assemblies as efficiently and accurately as possible.

Although we serve many different industries, we expect medical manufacturers to become a bigger part of our business in the coming years due to our nation’s aging population. According to Census Bureau projections, senior citizens will outnumber children for the first time in U.S. history by 2034.

We are already positioning ourselves to meet the expected increased demand for medical parts and tooling. With a wide variety of different state-of-the-art machines on our shop floor and a team of seasoned toolmakers, engineers, and machinists, we’re already on the right track.

The medical manufacturers we serve today make suture needles, bone screws and nails, reusable equipment for medicine delivery, diagnostic machines, and other non-invasive medical products. For the past 15 years they’ve relied on us to deliver the gages and fixtures they need – when they need them – at a cost-effective price.

We expect to help more medical manufacturers as demand ramps up, and we plan to continue investing in the emerging technologies that will best serve them.

Contact Us when you’re ready to experience the future of medical manufacturing.