【Medical power supply】APD obtained China’s first “Medical Electrical Equipment Power Supply Safety and Electromagnetic Compatibility Certification” issued by the China Quality Certification Center (CQC)

In light of the special requirements and environments for the use of medical equipment, there are more rigorous requirements for the safety and reliability of medical power products. With the scale of China’s medical equipment market jumping to second place in the global marketplace after the United States, in order to satisfy market needs, the certification agencies in China are actively developing and launching medical power related certificates. Asian Power Devices was honored with China’s first “Medical Electrical Equipment Power Supply Safety and Electromagnetic Compatibility Certification” issued by the CQC recently. This important milestone not only shows how much APD values product quality and user safety, it also highlighted its leading position in the medical power supply market.

The CQC launched the medical electrical equipment power supply safety and electromagnetic compatibility certificate in May of 2023, applicable to the power supply of medical electrical equipment, mainly the power adapters and built-in power supplies that provide power for medical electrical equipment. This certification is mainly based on China’s national standard GB 9706.1-2020 “Medical electrical equipment – Part 1: General requirements for basic safety and essential performance” and YY 9706.102-2021 “Medical electrical equipment Part 1-2: General requirements for basic safety and essential performance Collateral standard: Electromagnetic compatibility Requirements and tests”. This certification has great significance for standardizing the market order of power supplies for medical electrical equipment and satisfying customer needs. As China’s national quality certification agency, CQC certificates are highly authoritative and credible. They are important credentials for obtaining legal sales qualifications in China’s market. During its research on the medical electrical equipment power supply safety and electromagnetic compatibility certification, CQC organized a technical review meeting and invited APD as a technical review member. This undoubtedly is an affirmation of APD’s technical leadership position in the medical power supply field.

For APD being the first to obtain the medical electrical equipment power supply safety and electromagnetic compatibility certification in the industry, the general manager of APD’s power system business, Rax Chuang, stated that: “APD highly values the China medical market; in order to ensure that APD can reach the latest standards in the medical application fields in terms of product safety, EMC, research on energy efficiency standards and certification testing, APD invested large amounts of resources and established the highest level safety laboratory in the industry in order to maximize coverage and meet the certification standard requirements that different customer industry groups have for power products, and help customers push their products to the market faster. This is also an important reason why APD can continually win the trust of customers around the world.”

APD has focused on the power industry for almost three decades, and has become the long-term strategic partner of many major global medical companies. APD has held the “ISO 13485 medical equipment quality control system certification” since 2015. APD has also been awarded the “National High-Tech Enterprise” qualification certification year after year. Its medical power supply adapter even won the honorary title of “Champion Stand-Alone Product of Shenzhen Manufacturing Industry” in 2023. APD will further strengthen its cooperation with CQC and global certification agencies in the future to provide customers with safer and more reliable medical power products and services, continue to develop products and solutions with more market competitiveness, and push the development and advancement of medical electrical equipment.