Rheonix Partners with The RND Group to Assist with Encompass

Sep 8

Rheonix, Inc.

Rheonix, Inc., is a privately owned molecular diagnostic equipment manufacturer that produces the Encompass family of workstations. The workstations have two initial market-specific deployments – the Encompass MDx® workstation for detection of human disease conditions for the healthcare clinical testing industry and the Encompass Optimum™ workstation for detection of spoilage organisms and pathogens for the food and beverage industry.

The workstations are very versatile and have been successfully demonstrated for other molecular testing applications, such as genotyping and library preparation for Next-Gen DNA sequencing. The key selling features of the Encompass family of workstations are its automation, versatility, ease of use, and low per-test cost of operation.

Why They Chose RND

The RND Group was referred to Rheonix by the hardware integration vendor, KeyTech, whom Rheonix had selected for mechanical and usability engineering assistance for the Workstations. At the time (late 2013), Rheonix was searching for a software partner who had expertise in writing software for medical devices and regulated industries.

The RND Group worked successfully with Rheonix and KeyTech to define, design, and build the original workstation. Since completion of the original workstation, the Encompass MDx®, The RND Group has also completed design and implementation of software for the Encompass Optimum™ workstation. The RND Group is currently engaged with Rheonix for evolving and maintaining software for both workstation platforms.

Full Life Cycle Services

The RND Groupprovidedfull life cycle software services to Rheonix, including:

Analysis
Requirements definition
Software design
Software implementation
Software unit and integration testing
Using design control procedures expected by the FDA

The Results

The result of this cooperative effort with Rheonix is a software application that is state of the art in terms of user interface and functionality. For the initial project, The RND Group’s focus was on the software used to manage the workstation; including the user interface, workflow, data management, reporting, and service management aspects.

The RND Group defined a messaging interface to communicate with the workstation’s low-level EncompassCore software, which was developed by Rheonix. The RND Group also provided an API abstraction layer for the Festo XYZ directional motion controller hardware which was incorporated into the EncompassCore software.

With over 20 years of experience in regulated software engineering, we’ve built a heritage and reputation for building specialized software with precision and care. The RND Group can point with pride to products that have been successfully introduced into the medical device marketplace

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Capabilities Applied

FDA Part 820, Part 11

Windows development

hardware integration to Festo CMMO and EXCM

ISO 13485, HIPAA, IEC 62304

API definition and development

requirements development and management

software life cycle

embedded development

project management

software verification

Software

instrument/analyzers

firmware/embedded devices

Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation WPF user interfaces

sockets-based, cross-platform messaging API development

JavaFX user interfaces

algorithm analysis

remote diagnostics

Technologies Used

Microsoft WPF + Prism

JavaFX

ZeroMQ (distributed messaging)

Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM)

Java

XML

Gradle

SQL

Anna Clark