# Sidekick Mobile Panel Positioner

> A mobile remote-controlled x-ray panel positioning partner that allows an x-ray tech to manipulate the panel while keeping the machine's frame in view.

- Customer: Techno-Aide
- Industry: Medical
- Service: Product Design
- Capabilities: Industrial Design, Mechanical Design, Electrical Design, Controls & Programming, Prototyping, Testing & Validation, Design for Manufacturing

## Results at a glance

- **4 powered motions** to adjust panel position from across the room
- **12 months** from concept to trade-show delivery

## The challenge

- Wireless operation
- Keep design flexible enough to fit in as many x-ray rooms and scenarios as possible
- Create an aesthetic that fits in with other x-ray equipment
- Add safety measures for use in a medical environment

## What APTUS did

- Designed four powered motions into the product
- Defined an aesthetic that works well alongside most x-ray machines
- Integrated safety sensors into powered motions and used medical-rated materials and components
- Worked rigorously with a thermoformer in Canada under a tight deadline to deliver finished prototypes directly to the trade show

Partners: 
- Thermoforming: Truvaplast
- Linear actuator solutions: LINAK

## Results

- The x-ray tech can keep eyes on the machine's frame of view while making adjustments
- Debuted on time at RSNA Scientific Assembly
- The Sidekick is in Techno-Aide's product line (see techno-aide.com)

Source: https://www.aptusdesignworks.com/work/sidekick-mobile-panel-positioner