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Fatima Sheikh, ADG Systems Engineer, Software, R&D, NI

Ensure Quality Through Medical Device Testing

Medical device complexity is always rising. To ensure quality, test must never be compromised. Discover how NI’s complete, connected solutions deliver more data, more quickly, so you can protect your customers’ quality of life.

  • Medical Device Validation and Test Experts

    We know accurate test data can save lives, which is why medical companies across the world have trusted NI to test their patient devices for more than 30 years with more than 30,000 medical system deployments.

 

Ensure Product Quality

NI’s unrivaled measurement stability and hardware reliability ensures you have confidence in every product you ship.

Improve Productivity

NI’s complete test and data workflow can improve productivity on your team by more than 50 percent.

Enable Longevity

NI’s open platform, supports feature upgrades to meet coverage requirements across long product life cycles.

Lower Cost of Test

NI’s PXI hardware lowers your total cost of ownership with fast test speed, excellent uptime, increased test coverage, and competitive capital cost.

Committed to Your Success

NI has helped medical device companies improve the lives of millions of people through reliable systems and customized services. We support your team with unrivaled expertise in medical test and data strategies.

10/10

Largest MedTech companies use NI

22%

Revenue invested in internal R&D

1,400+

Field and support engineers worldwide

Testing Medical Devices: A Discussion with Medtronic

NI’s Kyle Voosen interviews Chris Robinson of Medtronic on what it means to engineer ambitiously. Chris describes the challenges his team faces focusing on automated production test of pacemakers and gives insights into the innovations they have implemented to become a best-in-class global manufacturer.

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Key Areas of Expertise

Industry Trends

Navigating Regulation and Complexity

Deploying product lifecycle analytics along the value chain provides actionable insights that impact yield, quality, efficiency, cost, and time within siloed, internally focused organizations operating in a highly regulated landscape.

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Living and Breathing Engineering

NI invited Ventec Life Systems to take us behind the scenes of their teams’ heroic efforts to engineer the first-of-its-kind mobile and lightweight critical care ventilator.
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Harness the Hidden Power of Test Data

We’ve found that nearly 90 percent of test data is stored—and never further utilized. What if we could leverage that test data to improve product processes and even product design?
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The Path to Innovation

Berlin Heart works with NI on testing solutions. Their collaboration has ensured that the EXCOR technology is deployed safely, consistently, and quickly to children who need it.

Customer Success

Leaders in Medical Device Test

NI knows that best-in-class teams don’t just build test stations—they lead a strategy that actively supports their company’s performance. We’ll spend the time to learn what success means to you, and then support you for years to come.

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The role of data maps directly to patient safety; [if there is ever an anomaly or a problem in the field] we start failure-analysis immediately, and the first thing we look at is the production test data.

Chris Robinson

Global Test Manager

Medtronic USA

  • Philips Ultrasound Transducers Test

    The combination of best-in-class modular hardware along with industry-standard software was pivotal to the millions of dollars saved in production test engineering.

 

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Maximize productivity and reduce costs with NI services. As your trusted partner and expert connector, we’re here to help you Engineer Ambitiously™.

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