Medical
SIRONA DENTAL
Wind River Platform Shrinks Time-to-Market for Innovative Dental Solution
Dental technology leader delivers networked x-ray product in record time
“Wind River Platform for Medical Devices provides us with a robust, industry-recognized RTOS solution. This, combined with comprehensive Wind River Professional Services, enabled us to meet very aggressive time-to-market goals.”
—Michael Dalpiaz, Head of Embedded Software Imaging Systems, Sirona Dental Systems
THE OBJECTIVE
Dental technology leader Sirona Dental Systems, Inc., maintains its competitive advantage by developing tools that give practicing dentists a professional edge. Its product line of extra-oral 2-D/3-D X-ray devices was a breakthrough, one the company wanted to cement by adding networking capability to send X-ray images to PCs to process and display. To ensure performance and reliability, the team knew they needed an RTOS. They also needed to develop their product fast.
HOW WIND RIVER HELPED
Wind River® Platform for Medical Devices brought together the VxWorks RTOS, an embedded development suite, a core network stack, and robust security components. Added to this was support for the PowerPC architecture via custom board support packages. Finally, Wind River Professional Services was instrumental in getting Sirona’s own developers up to speed fast.
THE RESULTS
Sirona’s engagement with Wind River brought a well-tested, high-performing product to market in record time—making good on the company’s promise of revolutionary technology that’s easy to use.
Medical
VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS
Varian Relies on Wind River for Mission-Critical Accuracy in Radiotherapy and Radiosurgery Systems
Medical device company creates system for innovative image-guided cancer treatment
“Wind River provides us with the technology platform that we rely on for the mission-critical accuracy required for our TrueBeam system for image-guided cancer treatment.”
—Patrick Joda, Vice President and General Manager, Worldwide Customer Support Service, Varian Medical Systems
THE OBJECTIVE
Varian Medical Systems is a medical device company focused on treating cancer and other medical conditions with radiotherapy, radiosurgery, proton therapy, and brachytherapy. Committed to saving hundreds of thousands of lives every year, the innovators at Varian needed to create a system that redefines cancer treatment—one capable of performing accuracy checks once every 10 milliseconds, and continuously monitoring more than 100,000 distinct data points throughout the entire treatment process.
HOW WIND RIVER HELPED
Varian chose Wind River® to provide the operating environment for its leading-edge TrueBeam™ radiotherapy and radiosurgery system. Wind River provides Varian with the reliable technology platform that supports the mission-critical accuracy required for the TrueBeam system’s image-guided cancer treatment. Wind River helped Varian establish a new level of synchronization between imaging, patient positioning, motion management, beam shaping, and dose delivery technologies.
THE RESULTS
Building on the reliable performance of the VxWorks® real-time operating system from Wind River, Varian created a system that is helping to redefine radiotherapy treatment.
Medical
FEDEGARI AUTOCLAVI
VxWorks Helps Fedegari Guarantee Performance
Real-time control system helps keep drugs and medical devices sterile
“We quickly found that Wind River was more than just an RTOS provider. They helped us find new solutions daily, and they’ve provided outstanding ongoing technical support”
—Massimo Ghelfi, Automation Manager, Fedegari Autoclavi
THE OBJECTIVE
Fedegari is a leading vendor of medical sterilizing equipment, providing reliable and cost-effective solutions for pharmaceutical and medical devices required to comply with stringent international standards. Its goal was to develop a robust and versatile real-time process controller that could operate on commercial off-the-shelf hardware, for lower cost and greater flexibility with no compromise of performance.
HOW WIND RIVER HELPED
VxWorks®, the industry-leading real-time operating system from Wind River®, provides the stable architecture that underlies reliable real-time monitoring and adjustment of temperature, humidity, pressure, and airflow to ensure consistent performance. Fedegari drew on Wind River expertise in industrial device software platforms to create a reliable and easily upgradable control system for its drug and medical device sterilizers.
THE RESULTS
Because the control software runs on a standard platform, Fedegari has the flexibility to create new control and communications modules to meet the needs of particular customers. This same architecture makes it possible to update sterilizer performance via software, prolonging the useful life of expensive sterilizing machines.
Medical
OLYMPUS SURGICAL
Wind River Helps Olympus ESG 400 Achieve Regulatory Compliance
High-frequency surgical generator is first to market and within budget
“Wind River helped us develop customized documentation in accordance with IEC 62304 and FDA guidance. We passed the software audit easily and in a timely manner—and launched the FDA-approved product to the market ahead of schedule.”
—Lutz Kersten, Department Manager, R&D Surgical Therapy Software, Olympus Surgical Technologies
THE OBJECTIVE
As a technology leader in the field of minimally invasive surgery, Olympus Surgical Technologies wanted to focus on its core competencies as it developed a next-generation high-frequency surgical generator. It needed to outsource software development and validation to a trusted vendor to help win necessary approvals on a fast march to a highly competitive market.
HOW WIND RIVER HELPED
Olympus outsourced the development, documentation, and validation of its new safety-critical RTOS to Wind River®. Wind River Professional Services developed full board support package and customized hardware support for VxWorks®. Wind River Education Services tailored classes to the company’s needs, getting its application developers up to speed fast.
THE RESULTS
Olympus’s internal development team was able to concentrate on creating differentiating applications and came first to market with an innovative product that was FDA approved. The project was completed on time and within budget, laying the foundation for ongoing collaboration between the companies.
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