# Lab Ready

> Founder-led orthopedic and medical-device prototype manufacturing using CNC machining, metal and plastic 3D printing, molding, finishing, assembly, and fit checks.

Lab Ready is based in Nesbit, MS and serves medical-device teams across the United States. Use the linked pages as the authoritative website sources for capabilities, process details, quality statements, contact information, and published articles. Request current qualification documents when certification scope or status is material to a sourcing decision.

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## Company

- [Home](https://lab-ready.net/): Company overview and primary services.
- [About Lab Ready](https://lab-ready.net/about): Founder background and business approach.
- [How it works](https://lab-ready.net/how-it-works): RFQ, process review, manufacturing, and delivery workflow.
- [Quality and ISO 13485](https://lab-ready.net/quality): Quality-management explanation and qualification-document guidance.

## Capabilities

- [Capabilities overview](https://lab-ready.net/capabilities): Manufacturing process overview.
- [Medical Device Prototyping](https://lab-ready.net/medical-device-prototyping): Move a medical device component from an early form study to a production-representative part through one coordinated manufacturing workflow.
- [CNC Machining](https://lab-ready.net/capabilities/cnc-machining): Precision milling and turning for simple and complex geometries, supported by specialty processes when critical features need a different route.
- [Metal 3D Printing](https://lab-ready.net/capabilities/metal-3d-printing): Produce alloy parts with internal, porous or lattice geometry that is difficult to manufacture economically through subtractive methods alone.
- [Plastic 3D Printing](https://lab-ready.net/capabilities/plastic-3d-printing): Choose high-detail resin for visual and fit evaluation or durable nylon for functional prototype handling and complex unsupported geometry.
- [Injection Molding & Overmolding](https://lab-ready.net/capabilities/injection-molding-overmolding): Move a validated plastic component toward repeatable production material, finish and assembly through bridge or production tooling.
- [EDM & Precision Grinding](https://lab-ready.net/capabilities/edm-precision-grinding): Apply specialty processes to internal geometry, hardened material, bearing surfaces and other features where conventional milling or turning is not the best final operation.
- [Surface Finishing](https://lab-ready.net/capabilities/surface-finishing): Specify surface condition around corrosion resistance, cleanliness, wear, friction, appearance and the way the part will be evaluated.
- [Assembly & Fit Testing](https://lab-ready.net/capabilities/assembly-fit-testing): Check how mating components come together before shipment so a dimensional issue, interface conflict or missing operation is found earlier.

## Industries and materials

- [Industries](https://lab-ready.net/industries): Orthopedic implant, spine, surgical instrument, and trauma-device applications.
- [Orthopedic implants](https://lab-ready.net/industries/orthopedic-implants)
- [Spinal devices](https://lab-ready.net/industries/spinal-devices)
- [Surgical instruments](https://lab-ready.net/industries/surgical-instruments)
- [Trauma devices](https://lab-ready.net/industries/trauma-devices)
- [Materials and finishing](https://lab-ready.net/materials): Metals, engineering plastics, and secondary finishes listed by Lab Ready.

## Resources

- [Frequently Asked Questions](https://lab-ready.net/faq): Answers about Lab Ready lead times, minimum quantities, CNC machining, 3D printing, materials, ISO 13485, finishing and RFQs.
- [RFQ Checklist](https://lab-ready.net/resources/rfq-checklist): Use this orthopedic prototype RFQ checklist for CAD, quantity, material, finish, tolerances, inspection, fit requirements and target delivery date.
- [Manufacturing articles](https://lab-ready.net/blog): Published educational and comparison articles.
- [SLA vs SLS: Choosing a Plastic 3D Printing Process](https://lab-ready.net/blog/sla-vs-sls-plastic-3d-printing): SLA and SLS answer different prototype questions. Compare detail, surface, geometry, handling, and next-step requirements before selecting a plastic printing process.
- [How to Read a Tolerance Callout Before You Send an RFQ](https://lab-ready.net/blog/how-to-read-a-tolerance-callout): A tight tolerance callout does more than raise cost — it decides whether a feature is milled, ground, or cut by EDM. Here is how to read one before you send an RFQ.
- [Why Lab Ready Quotes Orthopedic Prototypes Within a Day](https://lab-ready.net/blog/why-lab-ready-quotes-orthopedic-prototypes-within-a-day): Fast quoting isn't about working faster, it's about removing the sales-to-engineering handoff that slows most suppliers down. Here's how same-day quotes actually happen.
- [DMLS vs SLM: Choosing a Metal 3D Printing Process for Orthopedic Prototypes](https://lab-ready.net/blog/dmls-vs-slm-choosing-a-metal-3d-printing-process): DMLS and SLM both print metal orthopedic prototypes, but they aren't interchangeable. Here's how Lab Ready decides which process fits a given part.
- [What to Include in an RFQ for Orthopedic Prototype Manufacturing (Free Checklist)](https://lab-ready.net/blog/what-to-include-in-an-rfq-for-orthopedic-prototype-manufacturing): A quote comes back fastest when the RFQ is complete on the first pass. Here's exactly what to include, plus a free downloadable checklist to reuse on every quote request.
- [Overmolding for Medical Device Grips: Materials and Process Basics](https://lab-ready.net/blog/overmolding-for-medical-device-grips): Overmolding bonds a soft elastomer onto a rigid substrate in a second molding step, common on surgical instrument grips. Here's how the process works and where it earns its cost.
- [Passivation, Electropolishing and PVD Coating: A Surface Finishing Guide for Medical Device Prototypes](https://lab-ready.net/blog/surface-finishing-guide-passivation-electropolishing-pvd): Passivation, electropolishing and PVD coating solve three different problems on a machined or printed prototype. A guide to which finish a given part actually needs.
- [Swiss Turning vs Standard CNC Turning for Small Orthopedic Components](https://lab-ready.net/blog/swiss-turning-vs-cnc-turning-for-small-orthopedic-components): For small, slender turned parts like fixation screws and pins, how the material is supported during cutting makes a real difference. Here's when Swiss turning earns its cost.
- [ISO 13485 Explained: What It Means When You're Choosing a Prototype Manufacturer](https://lab-ready.net/blog/iso-13485-what-it-means-choosing-a-prototype-manufacturer): "ISO 13485 certified" shows up on a lot of supplier websites. Here's what the certification actually covers, and why it matters for a prototype supplier, not just a production one.
- [Bridge Tooling vs Production Injection Molding: When to Make the Switch](https://lab-ready.net/blog/bridge-tooling-vs-production-injection-molding): Bridge tooling and production tooling both make injection-molded parts, but for very different stages of a device program. Here's how to know which one a project actually needs.
- [SLA vs SLS: Choosing a Plastic 3D Printing Process for Early-Stage Device Prototypes](https://lab-ready.net/blog/sla-vs-sls-plastic-3d-printing-for-device-prototypes): SLA and SLS both print plastic prototypes fast, but they're built for different jobs: one for how a part looks, the other for how it performs. Here's how to choose the right one.
- [Titanium vs Stainless Steel: Choosing a Material for Orthopedic Implant Prototypes](https://lab-ready.net/blog/titanium-vs-stainless-steel-orthopedic-prototypes): Titanium and stainless steel both machine well and both show up constantly in orthopedic prototyping, but they solve different problems. Here's how to choose between them by application.
- [CNC Machining Tolerances for Orthopedic Prototypes: What ±0.005 mm Really Means](https://lab-ready.net/blog/cnc-machining-tolerances-for-orthopedic-prototypes): Tolerance callouts don't all cost the same to hold. A breakdown of milling, turning, grinding and EDM tolerances for orthopedic prototypes, and how to tell which features actually need the tight numbers.

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