Medical Devices

Northeast Indiana fits the medical devices industry like a glove. We're a region that believes in dreaming and making those dreams come true. For Indiana companies in the life sciences, dreams are constantly being put into action. And, as we believe in and support Indiana companies in the medical devices industry, they turn out products that change the Nation and the world.

Northeast Indiana companies have access to considerable medical devices industry resources. We have leaders in orthopedics to the west, excellent facilities, such as the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center, that offer assistance to emerging Indiana companies, and a university commitment and emerging venture capital community ready to invest in your dreams. In Northeast Indiana, we ranked as the fourth-highest state in venture capital percentage gains from 1999 to 2004.

Medical Devices Profile

Whitley County Medical Device Companies

C & A Tool Engineering (2 locations)

Micropulse.

Greatbatch Medical

Kilgore Manufacturing Co

Imaging Office Systems Inc.

Oak View Tooling

Quality Inspection & Gage

Sound Ideas

Numerix

Whitley County Wages, 2011

Occupation	Average Wage
Engineering Managers	$78,832
Computer Software Engineers, Systems Software	$56,056
Computer Support Specialists	$37,419
Computer Systems Analysts	$47,840
Industrial Engineers	$52,894
Materials Engineers	$55,328
Mechanical Engineers	$52,333
Computer-Controlled Machine Tool Operators, Metal and Plastic	$29,848
Tool and Die Makers	$39,582

Further information about the medical device and life science industries in northeast Indiana can also be found at the Indiana Health Industry Forum. IHIF has done asset mapping for the life sciences industry for Indiana, to view the Asset Map for the northeast Indiana life science industry (including medical device companies), please click here to download the report.

Workforce Development

Companies in the medical device industry will not have a hard to finding workers in Northeast Indiana thanks to local and nearby universities that offer the education necessary for our workforce and your company to succeed.

Indiana Tech offers an undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering.
Manchester College offers an undergraduate degree in Biotechnology.
Purdue University is home to the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and has a graduate program in Musculoskeletal & Orthopaedic Innovation.
The Unversity of Notre Dame has a graduate program in Bioengineering and offers a graduate studies emphasis of Biomechanics & Biomaterials in Orthopaedics.
Ivy Tech Community College in Warsaw has an Orthopaedic and Advanced Manufacturing Training Center.

Source: Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership, EMSI Covered Employment - 2011.4