Procedures for adjusting or reseting the pressure used to swage needles to suture at a needle swaging station. The forces required to break the sutures from the needles are measured and added to a data base; and each time a value, or sample, is added to that data base, an average of all the sample...http://www.google.com/patents/US5793634?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5793634 - Method and system for establishing and monitoring a needle swaging procedure 
