What is FastTrack?

Let us accelerate your catheter mandrel or core wire application by delivering custom critical ground wires in 2 weeks.

With decades of wire grinding know-how and commitment to collaboration, FastTrack will provide design for manufacturing feedback along with your prototyped medical wire designs. Our customers may also rent equipment time and embed with our experts at Wytech for up to a week for real-time design iterations.

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FastTrack Rapid Prototyping Program

Wytech's experienced technical team is the heart of our FastTrack program and is passionate about collaborating with our customers whose products span across interventional and minimally invasive surgical markets. We work diligently to identify and understand your ground catheter mandrel or core wire design, to deliver custom medical wires that meet your application performance needs.

  • Purpose: Catheter Mandrel and Core Wire Development
  • Dedicated Equipment: Precision Grinding, Stamping, and End Treatment
  • Materials: Dedicated Inventory of Stainless Steel Wire, PTFE Coated Stainless Steel Wire, and Nitinol Medical Wire.
  • Fast Delivery: Leveraging FastLane raw material inventory allows a standard lead time of 2 weeks; expedited options are available upon request.

Why Choose FastTrack for your ground catheter mandrel, wire and metal tubing grinding needs?

Discover how Wytech's technical excellence, in-house material experts, and advanced precision grinding capabilities can elevate your R&D project's success. Reduce lead times by leveraging Wytech's FastLane webstore with in-stock materials.

  • Materials
    • Uncoated Stainless Steel Types (304v, SLT®)
    • PTFE Coated Stainless Steel
    • Nitinol
    • Hardened Stainless 
    • MP35N
    • Inconel
  • Precision Ground Tapers and Profiles
    • Blivets
    • Flats
    • Micro Grinds
    • Notches
    • Single / Multiple Tapers
    • Stepped
  • Features & Tolerances
    • Fine Wire Grinding
      • 0.038" - 0.002"
    • Intermediate Wire Grinding
      • 0.106" - 0.038"
    • Large Diameter Grinding
      • 0.300"(+) - 0.106"
  • Proprietary grinding know-how to achieve complex grind profile
  • Proprietary stress relieving process to improve wire’s mechanical properties
  • Proprietary coating removal technologies for improved design freedom
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How it
Works

1. Engineering Expertise

Provide your critical dimensions, tolerances, and specifications. Our grinding experts review these requirements and provide real time feedback to assist you with your project.

2. Cost Review

Quotes will be provided within 48 hours.

3. Lead Time

Leveraging FastLane raw material inventory allows a standard lead time of 2 weeks; expedited options are available upon request.

4. Documentation

Fast Track provides inspection data upon customer request, let the team know at time of order. If material certification is required, please let the Fast Track team know, and we can add it to your quote.

“Wytech's Expertise in Centerless Grinding Boosts Our Confidence in Achieving the Best Product Quality”
Wytech's thoroughness and grinding experience enables the design of complex, highly manufacturable ground core wires. The team's guidance on flattening dies, tip thickness, and coil specifications will streamline our assembly process, making our collaboration invaluable.
R&D Engineer at Neurovascular Medical Device
“Wytech's FastTrack Rapid Prototyping Program Enhances Our Understanding of Wire Grinding”
Our visit to Wytech was invaluable, with the team swiftly iterating through 20 grind profiles. The quick turnaround and detailed feedback from the FastTrack Grinding Engineers, paired with the comprehensive prints, have significantly deepened our understanding of wire pushability and trackability. Their hospitality and expertise make Wytech an exceptional partner for innovation.
Biomedical Engineer at Neurovascular Devices Company for Stroke Treatment Solutions
“Hugely Impressed by the Standard of Goods Which We Received”
Firstly, I would like to thank you for fulfilling our order, we were hugely impressed by the standard of goods which we received, and the time in which they were delivered. It is much appreciated.
Medical Device Manufacturing Engineer, Fortune 500 Medical Device Technology Company
“Faster and More Responsive Than Their Competition”
Wytech is faster and more responsive than their competition. They partner with us during development to find the best ways to manufacture and meet our functional requirements while pushing the limits of available technology. Wytech’s quick turn, collaboration, and technical capabilities have made them our go-to supplier for precision ground wire in the neurovascular space.
Sourcing Manager, Fortune 500 Neurovascular Medical Technology Company
“Immediate Supply of Top Quality Material”
We continue to trust and rely on Wytech/Fastlane due to your continued excellence in responding to requests for quotes and immediate supply of top quality material!
Supply Chain Manager, Medical Device Contract Manufacturer
“Lead Times Are Very Convenient”

I am very happy with the service that Wytech Fastlane Provides.

Any time I’ve requested material, the quoting service is very quick and the lead times are very convenient.

R&D Engineer, Medical Device Contract Manufacturer