Medical technology, particularly in Germany, is characterised by a high innovation potential and high-quality products. The constant progress in medicine also demands innovative developments and improved processes in the field of medical technology.
The development of highly complex technical equipment, such as novel X-ray systems, radiation therapy systems, ultrasound systems or surgical robots is part of our range of services and requires a high sense of responsibility from all those involved.
During hardware development, we support our customers from the medical technology sector with the following range of services:
- Overall project planning and coordination
- Creation and analysis of functional specifications and requirement specification sheets
- Development of hardware in the field of analogue and digital circuit technology using CAE tools for medical control units
- Designing circuit concepts and designs using different circuit board technologies for circuit development and calculation
- Qualification and development of simulators for control units
- Supervision and coordination of hardware prototypes, as well as hardware trials and tests using suitable procedures and their documentation
- EMC measurement and subsequent optimisation
- Integration of individual components and modules into the overall system
- Documentation of the entire project execution using word processing and CASE tools
- Coordination of different departments such as production and quality planning, purchasing, software development and logistics
During software development, we support our customers from the medical technology sector with the following range of services:
- Overall project planning and coordination
- Analysis and specification of the software required
- Creation and analysis of functional specifications and requirement specification sheets
- Development and implementation of system and functional software
- Implementation of tests and measurements using modern simulation tools, as well as their documentation and subsequent verification of the existing software
- Automation of tests to be performed
- Integration of individual software components or modules into the overall system
- Documenting the entire project execution, from development to acceptance
- Coordinating different departments such as production and quality planning, purchasing, hardware development and logistics
Concrete case studies of services within medical technology:
- Concept development for a new test sequencer based on NI Labview, NI TestStand, and MS Access
- Creation of automatic tests for an X-ray high voltage generator cabinet with the previous test sequencer
- Procurement of measuring equipment for a manual final inspection station for a mammography system
- Creation of a manual test instruction and a manual final test station for a mammography system
- Performing various development acceptance tests for a mammography system (focus on EMC tests, as a guide from system development)
- Validation of IT hardware for use in medical technology systems
- Creation of software packages for automatic installation of PC systems in production
- Preparation and departmental execution of EMC tests on new IT hardware for use in medical technology systems
- Design, development and testing of hardware-related software for real-time operating systems
- Development and maintenance of firmware for multidetector arrays in C++
- Connecting measuring instruments to the dosimetry software
- Performing unit tests
- Preparing project documentation in English
- Creating test specifications based on design specifications
- Creating test exercises for system verification and validation
- Planning and performing system tests and system integration tests
- Developing test procedures
- Determination of test scope and depth before the start of the testing phase
- Analysis and documentation of errors that occur on the system interfaces and subsystems level
- Checking test documents
- Integration test, SW test, component test and function test for mammography devices
- Dokumentation vorbereiten und erstellen
- Preparing the testing facility (SW, HW, tools, measuring instruments)
- SW adaptation
- Performing the test
- Supervision of the endurance tests (internal, external)
- Processing and logging intermediate and test results
- Installing software updates on X-ray systems
- Starting endurance tests
- Archiving the log files
- Evaluating the endurance tests using ArtisLogSniffer
- Analysis of errors that occur
- Creating and validating change requests
- Creating error statistics