TECHNOLOGY IN ACTION ADVERTORIAL Overmoulded cable solutions for medical technology


Connection cables for medical devices and treatments are often subject to demanding requirements in daily use, be it through cleaning, disinfection or handling. A well thought- out system solution is a key factor for reliability and completes the individual application.


The special cable manufacturer SAB is expanding its range of medical cables with a new plug & play solution with overmoulding ,made of medical grade silicone or thermoplastic elastomers as a consistent implementation of market requirements. In order to achieve a secure and smooth material connection between the electrical line and the plug, all the necessary components are fine-tuned to each other.


The results flow directly into production. This benefits the manufacturer of medical components as they can rely on the proven support of the biocompatible base material prototype and 0 series through manufacturing lengths starting at 100 m. "This can only be achieved through constant dialogue with customers "explains Marc Gerlatzek, SAB Medical Product Mananger " We count on our material diversity, experience and constant investment in the machine park at the site in Viersen.


Possibilities for overmoulded plugs and nozzles are available for nearly the complete cabling solution of the SABmed Line material family. Medical cables with the flexible and smooth SABmed T can be engineered and customer customised to produce thermoplastic and elastomeric materials with better haptics than conventional thermoplastics.


If a medical cable with UL approval is needed the material SABmed S UL is used. The base material can be offered as a platinum cross-linked variant, with an ultraflexible sheath or with an non-adhesive surface.


New developments, such as autoclavable USB 3.0 cable are already being designed by SAB Bröckskes with an outlook to possible overmoulding. Manufacturers of medical devices will be able to use this complete system solution as a tailor-made Plug & Play product "from a single source" for greater design freedom in the development of devices.


able system manufacturer and cable specialist SAB Bröckskes offers high-quality cable solutions with high material diversity as a plug & play solution for system equipment, even for prototypes and small series.


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Goodlight gives more light for less at Network Rail’s Liverpool Street Station


Passengers and staff welcome new LED lighting at Britain’s third busiest station LED Eco Lights, the award winning UK LED lighting manufacturer, has announced that Network Rail has fitted its Goodlight LED lighting into all 18 platforms and the concourse at


London’s Liverpool Street Station, Britain’s third-busiest station with over 66 million passengers annually. Passengers and staff are benefitting from higher, better quality lighting and at the same time Network Rail is seeing a significant saving in electricity costs and a reduction in its carbon footprint.


Adam Thackeray, Works Delivery Manager for Network Rail, commented, “We decided to move to LED lighting to reduce our carbon output, reduce costs in terms of power consumption and to improve the lighting level and quality in public areas of the station.”


The Goodlight LED lamps can easily be retro-fitted into the existing fittings, allowing the relamping to proceed with little disruption. Over 3,500 lights were replaced by two teams of two operatives. They worked from two scissor lifts on a permanent night shift during the five hour window offered by station closing hours over a six month period.


Liverpool Street Station is seeing both an increase in light levels and a reduction in energy demand following the relamping with Goodlight LED. The station has measured an increase in Lux levels on the platforms and concourse, from approximately 75 Lux with the old lighting to 210 Lux with Goodlight. At the same time there has been a temperature drop of approximately 40 degrees centigrade at the exterior of the globe fixtures, which should improve reliability as well as efficiency. During the replacement of the concourse lighting in particular, maintenance teams noticed that there was a lot of the discolouration around the lamps and reflectors caused by heat produced by the old fluorescent lamps and control gear. This illustrates both the amount of waste heat generated and the issues it was causing. The energy saving from the new lights is over 800,000 kWh per year from the platform globe fixtures alone. Adam Thackeray estimates that the new LED lighting uses about half the energy of the old lights, and will pay for itself in just 12-18 months.


Goodlight  01276 691 230 CONNECTINGINDUSTRY.COM/ELECTRICALENGINEERING  www.goodlight.co.uk ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING | APRIL 2018 47


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