July 15, 2011
Surgery is not the place for things to go wrong. It is an area where extreme accuracy is essential; this applies to the motors operating in the room as well. Groschopp worked with a manufacturer of automated operating room tables to create a dual shaft solution to move two hinged arms simultaneously. By using one […]
July 8, 2011
Noise is often the single toughest challenge faced by design engineers when developing products for medical applications. Such was the case for a leading global company that designs, manufactures and installs patient lifts in healthcare facilities. The Challenge A very quiet motor Ability to lift intermittent loads weighing up to 600 pounds Highly reliable and […]
July 5, 2011
This customer is a premier independent supplier of X-ray tubes and flat panel detectors, serving the leading manufacturers of imaging equipment for medical diagnostics, as well as industrial inspection and security products. A stator was needed for a diagnostic X-ray machine. The Challenge Everything about this application is extreme – high operating temperatures, immersion in […]
July 1, 2011
Medical equipment must be reliable and have a long life even with hours of continual usage. An MRI cooling pump manufacturer came to Groschopp because they were having extensive failures with the motors from their previous supplier. Groschopp did some testing and found the old motors were failing due to heat issues. The two engineering […]
July 1, 2011
A manufacturer of overhead mixers to grind plant seed materials needed a motor that could operate at extremely high speeds and high torque in order to grind the material into dust. Groschopp worked with them on a few prototypes to find something that could hold up to their torque requirements. After heat-treating the shafts to […]