Medical
Higher-than-normal requirements for personal safety and reliability are the main defining factors for our Medical Power Solutions.
Patient safety is critical when it comes to healthcare and diagnostic equipment. Consequently, powering that equipment involves precision-manufactured medical power supplies working within tightly controlled design criteria, with high reliability as a given. Such complex designs require higher levels of insulation and superior EMC performance to protect both operators and vulnerable patients.
Lean design with low component counts, together with high-quality components, drastically enhances long-term reliability. Furthermore, implementing system solutions with built-in redundancy and back-up can increase total system availability. Convection cooling also increases reliability and completely eliminates disruptive mechanical fan noise in quiet clinical environments.
Our comprehensive product range of certified medical power supplies covers advanced AC/DC and DC/DC converters. These architectures scale seamlessly from single units to complex systems, spanning from individual watts to high-power kilowatts. We have been solving complex electrical and thermal challenges for the healthcare market for more than 50 years.
In addition to meeting strict regulatory and technical specification requirements, every PRBX design has this deep field experience built-in. Therefore, engineers receive an optimized power platform ready for immediate system integration.
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Safe power to MRI equipment!
Modern MRI systems typically generate 1.5 to 4 Tesla magnetic fields, rendering conventional units entirely useless. Consequently, the PRBX GB350 coreless technology provides high performance and stable operation in these demanding environments. This unique architecture highlights our ability to deliver specialized medical power supplies for advanced diagnostic imaging rooms.
Powering the Extraordinarily Demanding: From MRI Equipment to Critical Clinical Care
In our 50+ years of designing and selling medical power supplies we have gathered experience from a large variety of medical applications. As in all other fields where we are active we are primarily focusing on applications with some more demanding aspects. This could be in electrical specification, reliability requirements, space restrictions, environmental aspects, to mention a few. Some medical applications where we have carried out several projects and thereby accumulated specific experience are:
- → Diagnostic equipment and systems
- → Therapy equipment and systems
- → Monitoring and display
- → Home patient care
- → Surgical devices
- → Medical printers
- → Biolife science
- → Ventilators
- → X-ray
Core strengths
Powerbox excels in designing power converters with low leakage currents, whilst providing superior EMC performance in lean design concepts. One of our recognized core strengths involves designing medical power supplies featuring low component count designs, ensuring long life products, with low stand-by power and high efficiency. Another core strength is designing advanced systems such as high voltage generator systems.
Quality assurance and follow-up
Quality is an integrated part of everything we do. Our design process includes extensive testing, internal as well as external. Tests are also frequently run by our customers in their respective applications. In addition to the information we gain by tracking repairs and service requests, we also do regular quality follow up together with our customers, all to ensure a long and trouble-free life for our products.
Powerbox is also certified by DNV according to ISO 9001:2008.
Manufacturing
We manufacture at selected CEMs (Contract Equipment Manufacturer), where we apply rigorous process and quality requirements. We aim for long-term relationship with our manufacturing partners. A dedicated team for CEM Management and Quality Assurance work closely with them. Both when selecting a new partner and in the ongoing relationship with our existing partners we evaluate a large number of parameters, covering company profile, organization, manufacturing processes, and quality assurance.
Caring for the environment
At Powerbox we take an active role in protecting our environment. Our contribution includes:
Eco-Design: Streamlined solutions and lean design using fewer components reduces material used across our entire portfolio of medical power supplies. Furthermore, RoHS, WEEE and REACH are among the standards governing choice of materials.
Energy Efficiency: High efficiency reduces energy consumption both directly by reducing losses and indirectly by reducing the need for cooling.
Sustainable Operations: Energy efficient transportation and well developed use of online meetings are important elements in our determination to meet or exceed international standards by sustaining ISO-14001 compliance or the equivalent.
Get in contact with a power conversion specialist
We lean confidently on over 50 years of experience and subject matter expertise to identify the best means of solving every particular medical power supplies design challenge. Please contact a power conversion specialist with your need today.
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