An increasing number of hospitals and private clinics are selecting Bender’s ATICS to safeguard vital power supplies and protect patients in critical care facilities, the company says.
ATICS is reportedly the UKs only automatic changeover and monitoring device that is Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Level 2-accredited.
Bender UK MD, Steve Mason, explains: “There has been a general move within healthcare towards high integrity changeover systems which, combined with parallel power sources, provide greater resilience for medical power infrastructures. Healthcare providers and specifiers are recognising this unique element of ATICS, and choosing it for guaranteed performance and power system resilience.”
Bender claims ATICS is ‘unique, as it offers a higher level of security and reliability due to the (SIL) Level 2 design and development process’. The company explained: “It removes the single-point-of- failure threat to power resilience inherent in traditional single supply cables by enabling supply from two different sources. The primary supply maintains normal operation, but, in the event of failure, ATICS transfers over to the secondary supply within 0.5 seconds to comply with HTM 06-01.
Central to the design is the incorporation of permanent self-testing across all critical components. Bender designs, develops, supplies, and commissions, isolated power supplies (IPS) and theatre control panels, and is also a specialist in turnkey operating theatre projects.
