Capabilities and Resources
The Research & Development Group is involved in medical device
research and development - both self-initiated and collaborative.
Research collaborations include Flinders Medical Centre clinical
departments, Flinders University School of Medicine and School of
Informatics and Engineering, and the medical device industry.
The R&D group has extensive mechanical,
electronic and programming resources to enable
complete development for novel clinical and research medical devices
from original conceptualisation and design through to the manufacture
of a pre-production prototype. Specialist areas include: medical
electronics, optics, pneumatics, mechanical & surgical instrumentation,
toolmaking.
Mechanical Resources
- Lathes (4) including a watch-makers lathe
- Milling machines (2) fitted with digital measuring equipment
for increased accuracy and productivity
- Facilties for welding with gas, TIG, and arc, plasma cutting,
grit blasting and powder coating
- Specialist equipment: sheet metal folders, guillotine,
belt sanders and power saws
- Material expertise in perspex, delrin, teflon, PVC, aluminium,
brass, mild steel and stainless steel
- Mechanical design & modelling software packages:
Autodesk Inventor, AutoCAD and CorelDRAW
- Stainless steel fabrication for surgical instrumentation
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Precision: Laurie has a run of the mill
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Printed circuit board (PCB) prototyping |
Mark has a turn at the lathe
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Medical device construction and testing |
Electronic Resources
- Rapid PCB protoyping with LPKF C30s milling machine
- Altium Protel DXP schematic, electronic simulation and
PCB design package
- Microprocessor and microcontroller programming in C++,
Basic, Assembly, Pascal, VB, and Java
- Stereo microscope with digital camera attachment
- Gold plating facilities
- Front panel fabrication
- Label making with inkjet printer and back print film
- MacLab physiological data collection systems
- NI LabVIEW virtual instrumentation data collection and
signal analysis package
- Assembly and testing of pre-production prototype
- Specialist test equipment: spectrum analyser, thermal
transfer standards, spectrometer
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Prototype of small electronic head amplifiers |
The well equiped electronic workshop |
