Products from the medical sector built at the beginning of the 2000s could be restarted or repaired after the required analysis using old PC and special programming technology. For this purpose, several flash storage media, which were actually no longer completely readable, were read out, compared, corrected and rewritten.
Several times, the original display/touchscreen combinations of controls from well-known manufacturers were replaced by new, less expensive ones, requiring the corresponding drivers. The original components are currently not available and/or completely overpriced.
Here you can read more about it:
- Reference report Tesoma GmbH: New Windows Embedded Compact 7 USB touchscreen driver
- Reference report tci GmbH: touchscreen driver for X86 under WCE6.0
Modules for radio communication (Bluetooth, WIFI) that were no longer available were replaced by new flexible modules, with drivers (transparent according to the application) being written and integrated into the system.
Here you can read more about it:
- Reference report 3S Antriebe GmbH: Replacement of discontinued hardware with a Nina W13 module
- Reference report SIGMA Chemnitz GmbH: Replacement of a WLAN module as part of a hardware redesign
- Reverse Engineering for patching binary images and individual drivers for image, registry or file system repair or updates.
- Reverse Engineering and optimization of partially or not at all documented source and missing access to the original developer(s).
Here you can read more about it:
- Reference report VELOMAT Group GmbH: Revision of software for DD-0050 ATEX measurement electronics
Switching from old operating systems to another or from older operating system versions to newer ones, the latter while retaining the existing application as far as possible.
- Conversion from old operating systems to another / newer one while retaining the existing application by converting an app with .NET GUI into an LVGL-based app
You can read more about this here:
- Reference report: Migrating old apps with .NET GUI to an LVGL-based app
- System restore
A "lifetime warranty" often means that device manufacturers only offer service for as long as the product is sold. To the complete incomprehension of the consumer, this sometimes also applies to very high-priced products. This is neither fair nor sustainable!
Sometimes company takeovers, the sale of a business division or, in the worst case, insolvency also play a role.
Sometimes we can help at such points. It doesn't always work, but it's worth a try.
You can read more about it here:
- Reference report Schrott-Nasz GmbH: Repair attempt / system restore of an mPulse Handheld LIBS Metal Analyzer (RMG Technology, Oxford Instruments)
Are you interested?
We will be happy if you contact us.
Email: matthias.fischer(at)sigma-chemnitz.de
Phone: +49 371 2371-196
