Equipment Reliability and Safety Technology

Students should be able to: 1. monitor equipment and assess its accuracy and reliability; 2. discern equipment reliability to equipment design; 3. employ all safety procedures to design and fabricate biomedical devices; 4. apply safety in the instrumentation of equipment; and 5. acknowledge quality assurance in equipment design.

Equipment reliability: Manufacturing and quality control; equipment (project) reliability; equipment maintainability and availability. Equipment safety: Safety consideration in equipment design – reliable equipment earthing reduction of leakage current and operation at low voltage. Safe instrumentation: Physiological effects of electricity, shock hazards, electrical safety codes and standards, power distribution protection, electric system testing. Quality assurance in equipment design.