Almost 20% of GDP in the US is spend annually on health care. Medical devices and pharmaceuticals make of a big part of that market. Medical devices are increasingly designed to diagnose, assist and cure all kinds of illnesses in humans. As the global life expectancy increases, and average age of population increases, there is a growing need for diagnostic, assistive and cure-disease type medical devices. The devices vary from simple gadgets that connect to iPhone to measure blood pressure or heart rate, to remotely controlled surgery robotics. We work with our Customers in medical devices industry from concept to complete mechanical and mechatronic design of devices, including embedded and deeply integrated design practices in packing power source, actuation, sensing and microcontrollers into unique designs; rigorous consideration of safety, reliability, service, upgrade and mass production and manufacturing.
Similar to robotics having motion control being the core of the field, it is similar with medical devices, where devices that require motion control must be handled with extreme caution, and precision, accuracy, and reliability all have immense importance, as some of these devices would be used to save patient lives and doing highly complex surgeries. Therefore, making sure the communication between I/O devices is of extreme importance and there can be no room for error in the motion controller logic. The main fieldbus for high-performance motion control is EtherCAT. The hardware/software platform supports any of the major and minor fieldbus protocols, such as CANbus (CANopen, J1939), EtherNet/IP, Modbus, PROFINET and more.
