Daniel Herrington speaking at MD&M Midwest on PECM
- Kirk Abolafia
- Jul 24
- 2 min read
Updated: Jul 30
Join Voxel Founder & CEO Daniel Herrington on stage at MD&M Midwest as he discusses how pulsed electrochemical machining (PECM) is helping medtech leaders overcome manufacturing barriers in precision, throughput, geometry and more. Add to your show planner today!
Event Details:
📅 Tuesday, October 21
🕒 3:45 PM - 4:15 PM Central Time (US & Canada)
🏢 Room 102 D
🎤 Daniel Herrington, Voxel Founder & CEO
Case Study: PECM Enabling New Opportunities in Nitinol & Beyond
Engineers and manufacturers alike are struggling with the increased usage of advanced materials, pressure to miniaturize components, and the need for scalability for high-volume demand for critical medical device components, such as nitinol fixture devices. Rather than compromising tolerances or materials, manufacturers may have another option by exploring new material removal processes such as pulsed electrochemical machining (PECM), a unique non-contact and non-thermal material removal method capable of superfinished surfaces, small features and high scalability, ideal for high-volume orthopedic device production that may help alleviate major challenges in the industry.
At MD&M Midwest, Daniel will explain how PECM functionally removes the workpiece material atom-by-atom into unique shapes, what advantages and disadvantages come along with the process, such as its ability to ignore material hardness in favor of conductivity, and will share a case study on how PECM enabled new geometries, tolerances and surface quality, and scalability opportunities for a nitinol bone fixture manufacturer. Specifically, Herrington will showcase how PECM can enable new features and designs by allowing engineers to produce new parts with features sensitive to thermal distortion or tool vibration (thin walls) and how PECM’s atom-by-atom material removal produced sterile, superfinished surfaces without the use of additional steps.
About Daniel
Daniel is currently CEO of Voxel Innovations and focused on creating high-value metal components for the aerospace and energy industries utilizing next-generation Pulsed Electrochemical Machining (PECM) technology. Creating precision parts from advanced metal alloys is a growing challenge facing customers in Voxel's target industries. Our PECM processes permits novel designs, produces higher quality parts, and can decrease costs through speed or operational improvements that is unmatched by competing technologies.
From 2005 to 2011 Daniel was a professional racecar driver in the IndyCar and Grand-Am series, winning multiple races and raising over $1,000,000 in sponsorship funds. During his time at Duke University, Daniel worked extensively on commercialization, business development, and research projects for a number of companies outside of the university including Acorn Energy, Acuity Edge, and femtoMass Inc.
After graduating from Duke, Daniel pursued his interest in high-tech energy research working for the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E) within the Department of Energy. While there, Daniel advised teams from universities, national labs, start-ups, and multinational companies on commercialization strategies ensuring they were on a successful path to market. At ARPA-E Daniel worked with a wide range of technologies from natural gas industrial turbines to wave-energy harvesting devices to magnet manufacturing. Starting in 2013, Daniel began consulting in the emergent metal additive manufacturing industry and electrochemical machining industry, exploring new business opportunities in this sector.