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Maker of Instruments that Monitor Intensive Care Patients Cuts Development Time by 50%,
Using 50% Less Personnel
“Our models are becoming more and more complex because we are
increasingly working with integral construction housings,” says Jörg
Zwirner, department manager at Philips Medical. “That means we inte-
grate mounting devices in the housing to facilitate assembly. We have
to implement clever designs to compensate for the high personnel costs
for assembly in Germany – which we achieve very well. Meanwhile, it
takes nearly as long to install the software and test the instrument as it Philips Medical devices – designed with CoCreate software – can monitor up to 20
does to assemble it,” states Zwirner. individual parameters for patients in intensive care.
“We have defined a fixed process that ensures that the data can be
mirrored back and forth via our self-programmed PCB interface,” says
Kühnel. “This solution even gives us 3D models of the PCBs, which we
can then use to optimize the positioning and to analyze the flow of the
cooling air.”
Using CoCreate Modeling software, Philips designers can easily adapt the inside
of the equipment’s housing, without changing the free-form surfaces on the outside.
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Jörg Zwirner adds: “Our models are highly complex. Free-form surfaces
outside and diverse forms inside for the integral construction – as well
as draft angles, cast radiuses and other production features – can take
many systems to their limit. What we find outstanding about CoCreate
Modeling is its user-friendliness and freedom in modeling. And, as
already mentioned, the flexibility in personnel assignments offered by
CoCreate – we are absolutely certain that we are using the right system.
“When one sees what we have accomplished here in such a short time,
it is amazing. Within the past ten years we have been able to cut
our time and personnel requirements in half – with the same output,”
concludes Zwirner.
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