Linking up: talking electronics at MTI Expo
ISO13485-accredited group Datalink Electronics, will be discussing its role in contract electronic product design and manufacturing from stand 46 at the expo.
The group works with leading companies, universities and start-ups in order to help turn their technology and research into products “at the forefront of the medical devices industry”. Services include feasibility studies, design, development, prototyping, certification support, production and full product life-cycle management.
Some of Datalink’s areas of specialism in the medical sector include:
• Respiratory control and monitoring including a xenon dosing equipment used for anaesthetising babies with birth difficulties, as well as cardiac arrest adult patients
• Wearable medical electronics, e.g. non-invasive and minimally-invasive vital signs and continuous glucose monitoring for home and hospital use
• Mixed-gas respiratory monitoring systems
• Drug-delivery systems including a needleless syringe with an accurate integrated optical dose measurement technology
• Medical control systems, e.g. a self-balancing two-wheel powered mobility vehicle
Some of these products, Datalink points out, can be categorised as members of the Internet of Things – dubbed the next industrial revolution – to which the group says it aims to be a key contributor.
The design department works with manufacturing personnel throughout the design process to check that products can be manufactured and tested for the appropriate production volumes. Datalink says it also has good working relationships with a number of test houses and notified bodies.
Having both design and manufacturing capabilities means that clients can move rapidly from prototype design to production manufacture, with a constant feedback on the suitability of designs for manufacture, claims the firm.
Datalink is accredited to ISO13485 for the design and manufacture of medical products and ISO9001 for more general electronic products.