Integrated testing station combines ultrasonic extraction, optical particle measurements, and automated software to quantify the surface cleanliness of complex shaped biomedical devices
Measuring Systems has introduced the Surfex-100, for qualifying surface contamination due to particles.
The Surfex-100 is an integrated testing station (now less expensive and more compact) that is designed to rapidly measure the particle levels on complex shaped biomedical devices.
Surfex combines ultrasonic extraction, high sensitivity optical particle measurements, and automated software control to accurately quantify the surface cleanliness.
Applications include measuring the cleanliness of biomedical devices such as orthopedics, cardiovascular, dental, and opthamalogical materials.
The Surfex-100 lowers the cost of evaluating surface cleanliness by increasing sample through-put dramatically over manual methods, such as microscopy and filtering, says the company.
Test recipes and simple menu driven software eliminate data variability caused by human error.
Surfex is available with a variety of particle counter sensitivities and ultrasonic frequencies to provide surface cleanliness testing that is customised to the application.
Particle Measuring Systems also offers a surface contatmination testing service that it says will reduce testing costs while providing more reliable data, or can provide testing hardware and application expertise that will allow the measurements to be made at a facility.
Particle Measuring Systems is active in microcontamination monitoring, and combines high-performance instrumentation with applications expertise to solve the problems of semiconductor, disk drive and pharmaceutical manufacturers, and general cleanroom applications.
