[Artistic construction of medical equipment]

Through efforts of general designers, technologists and exterior feature designers of the Central Design planning-technological bureau "Medical Equipment" over 240 different pieces of medical apparatus and instruments have been created. The process of creating exterior design features includes collection and analysis of the information, compiling a survey note in which the purpose of the exterior designing and the present-day state of the prototypes of the object under consideration, as well as the possible unification of individual components and subassemblies are set forth. Medical requirements and limitations conditioned by the capabilities of the manufacturing plant are studied and the optimal demands as to the operation and use of the piece of equipment under construction are educed. In designing medical items, beside technical and service demands, and physiology are also taken into consideration. Great attention is paid to an effective method of compounding subassemblies and components, ensuring the technological rationale and unification of the most structural elements.