Value-Added Services

Kitting: AFP assembles and packages individual components into ready-to-use kits for analytical and diagnostic system OEMs. These kits are often customized for specific procedures or use cases, helping streamline workflows, reduce handling errors, and improve sterility and efficiency. AFP can package kits in clean room or white room environments with blister packs, pouches, rigid trays, or clamshells.

Packaging: AFP offers single-barrier and sterile-barrier packaging technologies that keep products sterile and protect them from damage during shipping. We can package any type of component — from a single plastic part to complex sub-assemblies to complete kits containing multiple components.

Our packaging comes in a variety of form factors, including:

• Blister packs and thermal forming
• Soft blisters and pouches
• Rigid blisters
• Primary and secondary packing

Our safe and aesthetic packaging process includes in-house industrial cleaning, ultrasonic cleaning lines, and hot and pad printing. Our customers now can receive fully finished products — packed in their own cartons, labeled, and sterilized — ready for immediate use.

Supply chain: AFP helps simplify the OEM’s supply chain with value-added pre-production and post-production services. These include raw material and component procurement from qualified vendors prior to production and assembly. Plus, warehousing and logistics, inventory control, and lot tracking of finished products to OEMs and distribution networks.

Sterilization management: a critical component of regulatory compliance, product safety, and performance, AFP offers comprehensive planning, execution, monitoring, and documentation of sterilization processes to ensure that components are free from microorganisms before customer delivery. Our process validation includes IQ/OQ/PQ methodology that ensures consistent sterility assurance levels.

Precision tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding: AFP’s precise, clean, high-quality welding process is used in analytical instrument manufacture, especially for components made from stainless steel, titanium, and other biocompatible metals. Our process maintains biocompatibility, prevents distortion in thin-walled parts, and produces strong, corrosion-resistant welds.

Brazing: this precision joining process assembles metal components by melting a filler metal with a lower melting point than the base materials. AFP’s brazing process creates strong, hermetic, and biocompatible joints without melting or deforming the associated components.

Soldering: AFP’s precision joining technique is used to connect components in electronic assemblies and certain mechanical joints. Our soldering systems precisely control temperature to avoid damaging sensitive components. This clean soldering technology ensures adhesion and prevents corrosion. Microscopic and X-ray inspection are used for quality verification.