Current Events: A Roundtable on Custom Medical Electronics

Electronics manufacturing has been quickly evolving over the last few years. For one, the electronics industry has been increasingly adopting Internet of Things (IoT) technology to interconnect different equipment networked though an internet connection. Using the technologies has impacted manufacturers by reducing cost, fostering product innovation, boosting efficiency, and improving safety.

Predictive maintenance has also been a boon to electronics makers, helping them to prevent costs associated with machine downtime as well as potentially reducing repair and maintenance costs. A lot of this work is made possible thanks to IoT tech that can track equipment health, predicting how equipment might fail, and helping businesses avoid it.

These are merely a few of the recent tools in electronics manufacturers’ belts—and in the highly regulated custom medical electronics landscape, tools to ensure quality and repeatability are paramount. Making electronics used in medical devices—many of which are highly customized orders for a single application—is also highly affected by the medtech industry’s macro tren