Industry Highlight: Medical Devices

The Market

Our customers are the global leaders and technology innovators of their market segments. Medical device design engineers rely on Lumex to be able to supply a full breadth of optoelectronics and displays as well as identify opportunities to create feature rich, high value solutions. Because use of optoelectronics is expanding rapidly in the medical market, particularly in portable and disposable devices, customers are also looking for a single supplier partner like Lumex to ease the burden of sourcing multiple vendors. Lumex recognizes that there are many niches within the medical device market that have different requirements. Some of Lumex’s focus niches include: 

  • Cardiovascular

  • Orthopedic devices

  • General surgery devices

  • Endoscopy devices

  • Neurology devices

  • Urology and gynecology equipment

  • Ophthalmic equipment

  • Cosmetics and aesthetics equipment

  • Wound care and management equipment

  • Respiratory and anesthesia equipment

  • Disinfection and sterilization equipment

  • Infusion systems

Lumex is Customer Driven

Whether we are supporting standard SMT and through hole LEDs or working on a fully integrated solution, our engineering design team is focused on ensuring that the end product being designed  fits the customer needs for the application, versus bending a product design to meet the components available. This means that we are always engaged with our customers to fine tune our offering and designs to meet their needs. We believe that design collaboration has consistently offered the best results for meeting the demands in the medical environment and the increasing complexity of medical device designs. Medical equipment customers are looking for rugged, smarter, faster and higher value solutions which is what Lumex has been delivering since our inception.

The Technology

By partnering with a wide range of medical device companies over many decades, Lumex has become a leader in bringing new optoelectronic and display technology specifically designed for this market. We have created LED and LCD solutions that allow our customers to take their applications to the next level in performance and endurance. Our standard product families include:

  • High Power LEDs

  • SMT LEDs

  • Through hole LEDs

  • Infrared Devices

  • UV LEDs

  • LED Displays

  • LED Arrays

  • LED Backlights

  • Monochromatic LCDs

  • TFT Capacitive Touch LCDs

Most recently, we have expanded our LED development at either end of the spectrum to answer the call for products that can meet the need for some of the latest innovation in medical devices. Some of those products include:

  • Standard and custom UV LED packages from 385nm to 490nm
  • Near and mid-range IR LED arrays
  • A -40°C to +85°C monochromatic LCD line
  • Capacitive touch screen TFT modules

The Value Proposition

Why do medical device design engineers choose Lumex? Lumex has been supporting the Medical Device market with leading technology longer and more consistently than anyone else in the industry across the broadest range of products. Lumex can be the single supplier for both standard off the shelf products as well as fully integrated engineered solutions. The benefits of having Lumex as a supplier partner are: 

  • Breadth of products means reduced number of vendors
  • Leveraging Lumex’s design expertise reduces your engineering time
  • Testing multiple interacting systems means faster time to market
  • The newest technology means the most feature enhanced, high performance medical device solutions on the market

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