TRAILER: Medical device design: Cables that deliver in a tough, critical environment

Imagine an electrical design engineering challenge where usual cost and time-to-market pressures co-exist with the need to build equipment on which lives depend on performance and reliability.

That’s the world that medical device designers work in, and like all electrical equipment, moving power and signals through cables is a fundamental part of the product. Safety is always a consideration, but in the medical device industry, designers must also work within a highly regulated environment. Cables must endure everything from sterilizing agents to stray RF radiation, to mechanical shock, yet the choice of cabling is often left late in the engineering design process. There are, however, good reasons to think about cable design in medical equipment early in the process.

Jim Anderton spoke with Joshua Spaulding, Design Engineering Manager with New England Wire Technologies about the challenge of cabling in medical devices, and how to spec the right product.

Watch the full interview here: https://www.engineering.com/medical-d...

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