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, ASE Optics 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.