To meet the needs of today's ever-changing hospital environments, medical equipment manufacturers are under pressure to design smaller, lighter and more portable devices without...

Providing miniature size, light weight and low power coupled with integration capabilities for pump and motor units in medical devices provides an ideal solution for design engineers. They are now...

Hydroelectric plants, Parker and their distributors / integrators make powerful teams in the area of power generation support and technical expertise. Carter Lake Hydroelectric, adjacent to...

Biocompatibility is one of the biggest hurdles for any new product—it is also one of the most important. Interestingly, there are no established regulations for the biocompatibility testing of medical...

When working to diagnose a particular disease or illness, samples that are precisely measured in a timely manner are critical. Unfortunately, many of the diagnostic instruments available are very...

As a user of analytical equipment such as process analyzers or gas chromatographs, are you affected by the vagaries of your compressed air supply? How often does a drop in its pressure affect...

In the first part of this series “6 Trends in Robotics for the Life Sciences,” you learned about three of the six important trends that are current in the design and manufacture of automated...

There is no doubt that the Life Sciences industry is currently a dynamic environment.  For instance, changing market conditions have tasked life science OEMs with building their products using faster,...

Design engineers face the challenge of improving system performance and capability, while they remain under constant pressure to reduce system cost. Meeting these challenges—along with meeting the...

What is the greatest obstacle to success in the design of a medical device that’s to be used directly by patients in their homes or in their bodies? In Parker-Hannifin’s view, the three...