Our perspective

When you choose a monitor to match your professional system, only the best is good enough.
And the same applies to your choice of an OEM partner. You need a supplier you can count on, meeting the requirements of your specific, highly demanding professional market.

The FIMI organisation and processes have been structured to address these demands specifically
· customisation even for limited series;
· logistic flexibility;
· responsiveness and focussed technical support.

Even if the ranges of the FIMI standard products are wide enough to cover a wide spectrum of medical applications and requirements, we realise that the professional market often asks for a dedicated approach, where specific characteristics and unique features need to be developed according to the customer's specifications. So FIMI's platform of existing products often represents a solid and powerful base for the creation of the new display solution we will build together with you to match your requirements and your fast time to market needs.

So FIMI's platform of existing products often represents a solid and powerful base for the creation of the new display solution we will build together with you to match your requirements and your fast time to market needs.

FIMI offers to its OEM partners:

the expertise of its highly qualified design and applications engineering staff;
the coordination of the overall project including industrial design, electrical and mechanical development, design qualification, International certifications and approvals;

the assurance of a robust design and of a reliable solution;
the availability of sophisticated testing and production equipment to ensure the highest Quality of the products;
continuous support during the overall life of the product

The display is one of the most critical components of an imaging system: the overall system's performance will be conditioned by the quality and the accuracy of the image displayed on the screen.
FIMI is able to offer the best available technology with the most favourable price/performance ratio.

Quality

Our workers and our engineers are aware of how important the quality of a display is when it is used in a hospital and for a clinical task…They know that each manufacturing step needs to be executed in the right way and that every problem identified during the process or in the components used needs to be traced to allow for a failure analysis and timely correction.Among others, the following facilities help them to build a high-quality medical monitor:

a clean room and the Smart Line in the FIMI’s LCD production facilities,

sophisticated measurement equipment used in the Testing Room.

A medical monitor has very tight requirements, typically unavailable in a commodity product; there is no compromise… it needs to be simply perfect.

The FIMI production facilities

FIMI has an up-to-date manufacturing facility for LCD monitors, able to meet such highly demanding requests of the professional market.
The new LCD manufacturing department includes a clean-area composed of a “white room” (P1000 class) and a “grey room” (P10000 class); they ensure maximum cleanness and the absence of contamination during the overall manufacturing process of the monitor. Electronic circuits, LCD panels are very sensitive to powders and to contamination; cleanliness becomes an important point to ensure the requested reliability of the products.
A P1000 class room means the presence of just 1000 particles with size over 0.5 micron in an air volume of 1 cubic ft. To give you a better perspective, take into consideration that a person sitting in a chair generates approx. 100,000 particles per cubic ft.
FIMI is using the “white room” for the preparation of critical sub-assemblies such as the backlight, the protective screen, while the “grey room” is used for the final assembling of the LCD monitor.
To have a “white room“ gives the possibility of introducing innovation in LCD displays, e.g. by adding special backlights such as the high brightness one.The use in the production area of a P1000 clean area and of sophisticated equipment could appear in some cases to be a little bit excessive … but it is also a way of building a new culture in monitor manufacturing. Cleanliness and a high level of attention to every detail of the work done… represent distinctive elements of FIMI’s production.

The Smart Line is the “brain” of the production process; it supervises the information flow related to the overall manufacturing cycles including work sheets and assembling instructions, the traceability of products and components, the record of defectiveness, the adjustment and alignment parameters for each monitor, the operator digital signature.
A touch screen display at the working station makes available all the information to the operator and allows him to enter new data (serial number, code of the product and of the critical components, description of defects, etc.). A bar code is used to trace components and finished products.
Fall-off and quality data can be real-time analysed for prompt feedback to the production process.
The “four blockers-8D” methodology is widely used to define and implement corrective actions.

The testing room... Designed for peace of mind

Robustness of design and reliability of the product you are buying are the result of the expertise of FIMI’s highly qualified design and application engineering staff.
The skill and competence of our engineers are very important but not enough. They must be supported by a reliable and comprehensive set of measurement data. Precise testing equipment and measurement systems become a must. Only in this way we can ensure the long term quality of our monitors.
Image quality measurements: a full Front-of-screen performance characterization of the display.

To get a visualized image of satisfactory quality, suitable for the clinical task, is often a long, meticulous process involving constant validation and refinement.
The image quality of a monitor begins to be developed very early on in the product's creation process, sometimes even before the display itself has been selected.
In the flat panel displays arena -where advances in technology are so frequent that a variety of new solutions can become available at any given time - it is of key importance to characterize the display and to verify its capability of meeting the critical requirements of a specific application.
Unfortunately there is no such thing as 'the perfect display technology' that features the best performance in all of the main visual parameters; the right choice of a flat panel display is often a matter of the arduous evaluation of several available solutions before the actual selection of a set of characteristics best suited for a specific application.
The need for accurate measurements in order to best match the electronics to the flat panel continues throughout product development and even during production itself to verify lot-by-lot consistency and to check for possible drift during the lifetime of the product.
It is for all these reasons that FIMI is equipped with one of the most sophisticated Measurement Systems available today for Flat Panel Displays. For the professional users of FIMI monitors, image quality isn't just an ergonomic issue; it is often a key feature which has a high impact on the result of a specific task.

FIMI's testing system supports all of the standard electro-optical measurements:

Luminance
Chromaticity
Contrast Ratio
Uniformity
Window Framing
Viewing Angle
Shadowing

Gray Scale
Gamma (Display function)
Response Time
Flicker
Ambient Contrast Ratio

Diffuse Reflection
Specular Reflection
Sunlight Readability
Power Consumption
Luminous Efficiency
Temperature Testing

The five-axis motion system allows automated viewing angle measurements, so important in transmissive flat panel displays such as LCD. Accurate measurements of luminance vs. gray level (both on-axis and off-axis) allow precise characterization of the display's function and checking of its compliance with standards such as the DICOM Grayscale Standard Display Function. The Measurement System, equipped with the appropriate options, supports the VESA FPDM Standard and other popular display measurement standards including TCO'99 / '03, ISO-13406-2, MIL-L-85762A and others.

Environmental testing

The FIMI environmental testing facilities offer the possibility to verify that a product has been designed to withstand the most severe conditions (climatic and mechanical) during transportation, storage and use. Qualification tests are performed by skilled personnel and use a wide range of test equipment.
The climatic chambers cover a vast temperature range (from -40 °C to + 150 °C) and relative humidity conditions of up to 98%. They are equipped with a program controller and are available in different sizes. A vibration system is used to evaluate the robustness of the product design and packaging and to simulate mechanical stress often encountered during transportation. A Drop Tester allows you to perform repeated package drop tests. Environmental tests are conducted in accordance with international standards procedures.

Temperature and humidity tests

Mechanical tests

Temperature & humidity cycles - with the unit in operation - to test the reliability and performance drift of a product;
Cycling damp heat test to verify the effect of humidity on the product;
Storage and transport climatic testing;
Temperature shock effects;
STRIFE tests to reveal weak components;
Life testing to measure the MTBF of the product

Sine wave vibration tests (sweep test in operating / non operating conditions and mechanical resonance search);
Random vibration tests (operating / non operating conditions);
Random vibration tests for packed products;
Bump test;
Drop test of packed products (transportation)

Electromagnetic Compatibility testing

All FIMI products meet every international EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility) standard such as the American FCC and the European CISPR.
An Electromagnetic-Compatible product means a product that operates without introducing intolerable electromagnetic disturbance and a product that is able to operate correctly even in a heavy electromagnetic environment.
FIMI employs testing equipment able to check on - during the design phase - the EMC performances of the product and to optimise its design accordingly. Approved test facilities are used to certify compliance with international standards.
Similar EMC tests are repeated during the lifetime of the product to ensure production consistency.

Radiated emissions 30 to 1000 MHz in accordance with EN 55022/CISPR22, EN 55011 /CISPR11;
Mains terminal interference voltage 0.15 to 30 MHz in accordance with EN55022 / CISPR22 and EN55011 / CISPR 11;
Harmonic currents 0.1 to 2 KHz according to EN 61000-3-2;
Electrostatic discharges immunity test in accordance with EN61000-4-2/ IEC 61000-4-2;

Fast transients test 5 KHz in accordance with EN61000-4-4 / IEC 61000-4-4;
Surge immunity test 2 KV in accordance with EN61000-4-5 / IEC 61000-4-5;
Power frequency magnetic field test 30 A/m in accordance with EN 61000-4-8 / IEC 61000-4-8;
Bump test;
Voltage dips, short interruptions and voltage variations immunity tests in accordance with EN 61000-4-11 / IEC 61000-4-11.

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