National Instruments Lets Testing Accelerate Ventilators to Market

As the new coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) spreads around the world, ventilators, which are the key equipment for the treatment of critically ill patients, have been in emergency one after another. To ensure the production capacity and quality of ventilators at this critical time when demand outstrips supply, in addition to the efficient and high-quality supply of component manufacturers, it is even more necessary to have a professional test and measurement system to escort them. NI, the world's leading test and measurement vendor, is working with a number of ventilator production partners to help ventilator manufacturers accelerate the testing of each ventilator.

One more ventilator is one more ray of hope, some car companies are also in the cross-border manufacture of ventilators, but the production of ventilators need to undergo rigorous testing and validation, NI currently supports ventilator manufacturers, including Averna Technologies, Circuit Check, and Velentium, to help test and validate their ventilators for U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval. Drug Administration (FDA) approval.

Some ventilators are very complex and require a lot of redundancy, alarms, and worst-case failsafe; while others use wireless communication, so signaling must also be tested and validated," said Jared Aho, marketing manager at NI. Faced with skyrocketing demand for ventilators, NI's ventilator manufacturing partners are suddenly being inundated with requests for cross-border collaborations from automotive manufacturers and other medical device makers, for which NI is strongly supportive, prioritizing the provision of the appropriate engineering services to accelerate the time to implementation of test projects."

Difficulty in breathing is one of the typical symptoms of a person infected with new crown pneumonia, and when acute respiratory distress syndrome occurs, the only way to ensure the patient's blood oxygen level is to use a ventilator to assist or replace breathing. Some ventilators only need to operate for a short period of time, while others must work continuously for many days; some are powerful and more complex, such as Ventec's 5-in-1 treatment system, the VOCSN, which consists of a ventilator, oxygen concentrator, cough aid, suction and nebulizer, which converts liquid medication into a fine mist that a person can inhale through a mask or suction nozzle The following are examples of such devices. Situations such as "What happens to the ventilator when the patient coughs while it is being used?" have to be rigorously tested and validated beforehand.

Ventilators require a high degree of stability. Any failure of any component, whether it be the pressure drive system, valves, filters, etc., and the ventilator may malfunction, endangering the patient's life. The core components of the ventilator, such as turbine fans, sensors, chips and other aspects of the production are inseparable from the test system. The good news is that NI's deep experience in the test and measurement industry can help manufacturers quickly set up test systems. Once the automated production line is in place, NI and Velentium will have a ventilator tested in less than three minutes. Ventilator technology threshold is high, expensive, extraordinary times is a machine is difficult to find, but for seriously ill patients, the ventilator to a large extent is a "life-saving machine".

NI vice president Dave Wilson recently accepted the U.S. media Fierce Electronics interview, said: "the demand for ventilators climbed dramatically, we started from 'yes, we need to do how'. As daunting as the challenge is, I think this challenge will be something similarly significant to achieving the moonwalk."

Eric Starkloff, President and CEO of NI, said, "We will not let testing be a barrier to bringing the ventilator to market."

NI is currently closely monitoring the development of the new Crown Pneumonia, and during this time NI has two priorities: to focus on and protect the health and safety of NI employees, their families, and the communities in which they live, and to do everything possible to meet the needs of our customers and partners.NI has always been on a mission to help engineers and scientists solve all types of engineering challenges, and during this challenging time, NI will strive to In these challenging times, NI will strive to assist customers in healthcare and a variety of other industries to efficiently deliver highly reliable products.NI will also prioritize and assess critical medical device production needs in the fight against C.N.C.P. to assist engineers in solving their challenges the first time around.