Vijay Kudchadkar serves as the Director of Plastics & Sales Engineering at Nissha Medical Technologies. He has over 19 years of experience in precision molding and is a well-known expert in micro molding, material properties, hot runners, screw design, multi-shot molding, and flow simulation. Vijay specializes in developing comprehensive tooling, molding, and automated assembly solutions for medical and drug delivery OEMs for complex parts and assemblies. Vijay also has over 9 years of experience in extrusion, thermoforming, and blow molding, has appeared in numerous publications and has 9 patents in the field of polymer processing.
Vijay is an active member of the Society of Plastics Engineers and is currently the Councilor of SPE Ontario and Newsletter editor for the SPE Medical Plastics Division. Vijay graduated from the University of Massachusetts Lowell with a master’s degree in Plastics Engineering.
Medical device OEMs continue to drive rapid innovation in the development of lifesaving and life enhancing technologies. To enable this progress, CDMOs must continually innovate, pushing the boundaries of precision, scalability, and cost efficiency to support OEM innovation and cost reduction objectives. In this panel discussion, subject matter experts from Nissha Medical Technologies and EndoTheia will explore advancements in guidewire free steering technologies, DfM, DfA, microtooling, micromolding, microautomation, and microsensor integration. These capabilities are expanding the clinical toolkit available to surgeons and physicians, enabling greater procedural precision, improved outcomes, and next generation minimally invasive solutions.