An orthopedic OEM proposes embedding RFID chips directly into surgical instruments during manufacturing through overmolding. It's hard to retrofit existing product lines, but new systems like knee implants should build RFID tracking into design specs from the start.
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And a great, great solution would be to, with the OEMs, to embed these RFID chips. These chips can be overmolded, you know, they can be done during the manufacturing process. So you're not, it's not a post-processing event. Of course, the other issue with that, and you hit it right on the head, Kyle, is that requires a significant change in how they do development. And so for their existing instrumentation and implants, that's going to be difficult because it's modification of existing drawings. Of existing manufacturing processes. Now, if they're contemplating, you know, a new knee system with all new instrumentation, you need to address whether or not you're going to put RFID tracking in that instrumentation at the outset, put that in the design inputs.