FaBiMed (Fabrication and Functionalization of BioMedical Microdevices) was a European project promoted by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme to improve and develop new manufacturing techniques, based on micromolding, specific to biomedical microdevices.

ASENSE participated in this project as a consortium member, leading the Inspection and Quality Control work package. The objective of this work package was to provide rapid, non-destructive means for controlling the processes and quality of the devices developed and produced within the project. To this end, ASENSE Europe developed an OCT (Optical Coherence Tomography) device and a machine vision (MV) device for the inspection of a microfluidic chip.

The objective of FaBiMed was to reduce the costs of large-scale production (production lines) of diagnostic and therapeutic micro-devices (lab-on-a-chip, microfluidic chips, etc.), given that these present a common problem: large-scale production is expensive and difficult to control, since the geometric characteristics are on a micrometric scale and require very specific custom-made systems.

More information about the project here: FaBiMed.