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6 EMS Guide 2020 www markttechnik de Markt & Meldungen Plexus and partners Medical product delivered in record time Faced with the Covid-19 pandemic the UK Government challenged UK manufacturers to increase the number of ventilators available within the NHS National Health Service See how Plexus rose to the challenge and leveraged its experience to work as part of a consortium aiming to bring a new ventilator to market in record time The Plexus design team at the Livingston Design Centre has a long history of medical product development Since opening in 2002 the team has worked with many leading medical device providers to create products meeting the requirements of global regulatory authorities including the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency MHRA in the UK At the end of March 2020 the team shifted to work on an extraordinary project as part of the UK Governments Ventilator Challenge rapidly design and manufacture a ventilator unit intended to provide assisted respiration for Covid-19 patients This was a uniquely challenging project design and develop a brand new lifepreserving product in less than three months and rapidly transition into volume production Our history of working on safety critical designs for medical devices placed Plexus in a strong position to support this project said Peter Winnington-Ingram Senior Site Director for Livingston and Darmstadt Design Centers We regularly support globally diverse customers with remote teams of engineers This means our teams have the culture tools infrastructure and experience to quickly and effectively contribute to a project that has largely been coordinated virtually With our One Plexus focus we brought together experts from our design teams and manufacturing facilities around the world from the outset of a project This allowed us to efficiently accelerate from product design to the transition into volume production Accelerating the pace of design and development to new speeds Within a few days of the UK Governments announcement of the ventilator challenge the team received the product specifications and initiated the design process The electronics design was led by a core team out of the Livingston Design Center working with colleagues out of the Darmstadt Design Center in Germany and at three other Plexus Design Centers across the globe Meaning the work on the project could continue around the clock The team also worked closely with a leading medical equipment company in Germany and Babcock International Group in the UK to accelerate the development of the electronics used in the ventilator As Covid-19 continued to evolve the teams resolve to maintain pace never wavered The close relationship between both teams throughout the design phase allowed the product to function as planned and also ensured a suitable supply of materials both for initial prototypes and onwards into volume manufacturing The sourcing strategy required a high level of localization Our UKbased printed circuit board suppliers Merlin Circuit Technology Ltd and Amphenol Collaboration at all stages engineers working on a board for the ventilators Invotec went above and beyond by adding Bild Plexus