Kitron has been providing high-quality electronics to customers in the Medical Devices sector for several decades. We have proven to be a valuable partner in manufacturing precise, reliable, and efficient electronics for crucial healthcare applications.
Our expertise includes providing electronics manufacturing services (EMS) for a variety of medical devices, such as diagnostics, life support, hospital, point of care and home devices. We support the entire value chain and product life cycle – from concept and design to production, testing and aftermarket services.
Supporting lives with reliable electronics
Collaborating on creating life-support medical devices that directly improve or save lives is both an honour and a profound responsibility. At Kitron, we are privileged to be the manufacturing partner for a wide range of international medical device companies, from industry giants to emerging start-ups.
We provide electronics for the devices used to clear airways for patients and help them breathe in emergency situations. Additionally, we supply electronics for training simulations that offer training opportunities, enhance clinical skills, and improve patient outcomes.
A vital partnership during the pandemic
One of the most critical devices we have worked on is a life-saving ventilator that ensures patients, from neonates to adults, can breathe while in intensive care. Ventilators proved especially critical during the COVID-19 pandemic when the global demand increased dramatically.
Kitron experienced an incredible ramp-up during the pandemic and responded by rapidly increasing capacity in manufacturing facilities to meet the urgent need to manufacture and supply electronics for ventilators. While the pandemic created unprecedented challenges, it also reinforced our commitment to delivering electronics for medical devices under extreme conditions.
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Electronics for diagnostics and point-of-care
Kitron offers customers electronics manufacturing expertise during product development, along with a knowledge of quality assurance and regulatory requirements specific to medical devices.
Whether supplying fully assembled PCBs (printed circuit boards) or providing complete product assembly services, we collaborate with our customers to create crucial diagnostic devices. Our electronics are used in a skin cancer detection and haematology analyser, which diagnoses and monitors conditions such as leukaemia and thrombocytopenia.
We provide a full product assembly for blood-analysing devices used at the point of care. These devices help prevent anaemia, diabetes, malnutrition, and infection, and healthcare providers rely on them for quick and accurate results so that treatment decisions can be made immediately.
Electronics solutions for medical devices in hospitals
Our involvement extends to supplying electronics for medical devices, which enhances the effectiveness of healthcare solutions in hospitals.
For example, we provide electronics for advanced medical technologies, such as devices that use gamma rays to treat tumours. The tumour is treated from the outside instead of being removed by opening the skull. We also manufacture electronics for linear accelerators, which deliver targeted radiation therapy with high precision to treat tumours or lesions.
Beyond radiation therapy, our expertise includes manufacturing electronics for hospital devices such as photodynamic therapy lamps, which are used for targeted treatment to destroy precancerous and cancer cells without harming surroundings and cardiovascular ultrasound, which helps make assessments simple, clinical decision support fast, and treatment precise.
Additionally, we provide electronics for dental chairs that prioritise flexibility and comfort, elevating both patient experience and clinician efficiency.
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Elevating patient care at home
Nothing compares to the delivery of technology solutions that directly impact the quality of life and health of others. Kitron applies its expertise to home and personal care devices, such as advanced wheelchairs, that enhance mobility, safety, and quality of life.
Another remarkable collaboration involved developing a home care product that uses a sensor and app to detect heart fibrillation early, potentially preventing strokes for people with high blood pressure or diabetes. Kitron supported the development of a robotic production line and the industrialisation of products.
By bringing reliable solutions to home care, together with our customers, we empower patients to lead more independent lives.
Summary
Kitron has built strong electronics manufacturing expertise in a variety of medical devices, from life-support ventilators to blood analysis devices and wheelchairs. These medical technologies, all highly advanced, play a critical role in safeguarding people’s health and lives. We understand that innovation must be combined with the highest reliability and quality because when it comes to medical equipment, there is simply no margin for error.
By leveraging our focused medical core competencies, customer-aligned global footprint, FDA-listed manufacturing sites and all the required certifications for medical device manufacturing, such as ISO 13485 and 21 CFR 820 Quality System Regulation, Kitron is the ideal manufacturing partner for medical technology and device companies.
