Machine Solutions Inc.
Mark Decker has over 39 years of experience in software engineering and control systems. Currently serving as a Software Engineer at Machine Solutions Inc. since January 2003, Mark specializes in machine control software utilizing Visual Basic and various PLC control software, along with smart motor programming and vision control software/hardware. Prior to this role, Mark worked as a Software Controls Engineer at Gore from December 1991 to January 2003, where responsibilities included machine control software development. Earlier in Mark's career, a role as a Labor Grade 16 Technician at Hughes Aircraft Company from September 1984 to December 1991 involved testing and troubleshooting missile guidance and control hardware. Mark holds an Associate's degree in Electronics from the Phoenix Institute of Technology, attained between 1982 and 1984.
Machine Solutions Inc.
Machine Solutions is the premier provider of advanced equipment and services for the medical device, biopharmaceutical and blood- and plasma-collection industries. We have been persistent in our pursuit to add industry- leading technology leading to the unification of MSI, SteegerUSA, BW-TEC AG, Vante, PlasticWeld Systems, Crescent Design, Beahm Designs and SEBRA to provide a breadth of products to support customer needs and growth. Machine Solutions provides proprietary mechanical solutions to a variety of complex process, testing and device design challenges. Our equipment has become the industry standard for balloon catheter pleat and folding, drug coated stent crimping, heart valve crimping, medical wire braiding and coiling, catheter lamination, marker band swaging, balloon forming, laser bonding, tube cutting and our thermal processing products are considered the foundational tool for a wide range of plastic manufacturing processes. As a pioneer in radio frequency technology, the company has continued to develop advancing technology for catheter tipping, bonding, flaring, flanging, hole forming, biopharmaceutical sealing, sterile connecting and disconnecting along with many other applications. Our testing products support customers to meet ISO 10555 general requirements for testing intravascular sterile use catheters with test equipment including hydraulic leak & burst testing, stent radial force testing, catheter trackability and torquability, stent securement and other testing services