Medical Subsystems

Electromate supports healthcare organizations and medical manufacturers across Canada with motion-control technologies designed for repeatability, reliability, and cleanroom readiness. Our mechatronic subsystems are used in laboratory automation, diagnostic equipment, surgical tools, patient-care devices, and medical material-handling systems where accuracy and consistent performance are essential.

Medical environments demand compact mechanisms that deliver controlled motion, long service life, and dependable operation under continuous duty. Electromate supplies motors, actuators, gearheads, encoders, and integrated subsystems selected to meet these requirements while maintaining efficient mechanical footprints suited to benchtop instruments, enclosed devices, and clinical equipment.

Canadian laboratories, hospitals, and OEMs benefit from optimized motion designs that combine the right motor technology with appropriately sized bearings, brakes, encoder formats, and precision gearing. These choices help improve throughput, reduce manual handling, and support the development of next-generation medical instruments.

Customization plays a central role in medical mechatronics. Electromate works with OEMs and research groups to configure powered mechanisms for systems such as sample-preparation instruments, imaging devices, mobility-assist technology, and robotic surgical platforms. Components can be tailored to specific performance needs, environmental constraints, and integration requirements.

Safety and regulatory expectations influence every aspect of medical automation. Electromate supports solutions designed to operate reliably in patient-care and clinical environments, aligning with the safety, cleanliness, and performance standards required by medical laboratories, healthcare facilities, and medical-device manufacturers across Canada.


Electromate's Offerings to the Canadian Medical Market Include

  • Precision Miniature Actuators – Linear and rotary actuators suitable for sample-handling devices, diagnostic instruments, microfluidics, and compact clinical equipment. Available in screw-drive, rodless, and direct-drive formats for controlled, low-vibration motion inside laboratory and medical devices.
  • High-Efficiency Brushless and Frameless Motors – Compact motors designed for embedded medical architectures where weight, thermal behavior, smoothness, and long service life are critical. Used in pumps, centrifuge loading systems, robotic mechanisms, imaging tables, surgical-assist tools, and compact benchtop instruments.
  • Gearheads for Cleanroom and Instrumentation Use – Low-backlash planetary and harmonic gearheads sized for precise positioning inside laboratory automation, diagnostic machines, and surgical robotic components. Supports controlled rotary motion in mechanisms requiring repeatable accuracy under continuous duty cycles.
  • High-Resolution Feedback and Sensing – Incremental and absolute encoders offering stable, low-noise position feedback for medical devices. Suitable for pipetting mechanisms, gimbal-style imaging assemblies, reagent-handling motion paths, and embedded control loops where accuracy and traceability are essential.
  • Integrated Mechatronic Subsystems – Combined motor, gearing, actuator, and feedback assemblies pre-engineered for medical instruments requiring compact motion blocks. Supports Canadian medical OEMs by reducing integration time and enabling consistent performance across multiple device platforms.

Medical Component & Subsystem Providers


Electromate's Partners in the Canadian Medical Field

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Medical Whitepapers

Battling COVID-19 One Pump at a Time

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Winnipeg Ventilator project had to make some critical choices in design and component selection, particularly for the motor used in the mechanical pump design.

maxon Motors in Prosthetics

Losing a hand or a limb, no matter the cause, can turn everyday tasks into trials. The Michelangelo Hand prosthesis returns quality of life to those who have lost a hand. maxon DC brushless motors play a crucial role in the functioning of this prosthesis.

Brushless DC Motors for Service Robots

The Jaco2 Robotic Arm is a lightweight, quiet, easily controlled service device created to help disabled individuals with daily tasks. The arm moves around 6 degrees of freedom using 6 flat motors designed and manufactured by maxon precision motors.

Micro Drives for Implantable Medication Delivery System

Implantable medication delivery systems are widely used in patients who suffer from chronic pain, metabolic disorders, diseases of the Central Nervous System or tumor diseases. All of these ailments require accurately dosed medication for treatment.

Brushless DC Motors for Respiration Therapy

Respiration therapy deals with disorders and diseases of the lungs and vocal tract and can be performed both in hospitals or medical facilities, as well as at-home.

Galil Motion Technology for Automatic Tube Handling System

When human fluids are being analyzed in order to develop new drugs, find cures for diseases, prescribe a course of treatment, or solve crimes, clinical lab scientists need intact samples not compromised by contamination, infection, or misidentification.

SMAC Moving Coil Actuators & Biomedical Applications

These actuators allow force, position, and speed to be completely programmable. With precise force control, soft-land capability, repeatable positioning, and data feedback, they have a variety of applications within industries such as Medical, Bioscience, and Pharmaceutical.

DC Motors for Automated Patient Transfer Device

A growing problem in the medical field and particularly for nurses, is staffing, or the lack thereof, which leads to fewer staff available to assist in lifting heavier patients. This is where maxon’s DC motors for automated patient transfer devices play a crucial role.

maxon EC6 Motor Medical Applications

Intra-aortic pumps powered by miniature brushless DC motors from maxon provide heart failure patients an aid to help hearts rest and heal, allowing for circulatory support without surgery.

EC Motors for Implantable Pumps

Implantable pump systems are medical devices used to treat conditions such as ascites. In order to control excessive fluid accumulation in patients’ abdomens, Sequana Medical developed an active implant utilizing maxon EC motors for trouble-free and smooth pump m


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EC Flat BLDC Motors by Maxon Tariff Free

EC Flat BLDC Motors

Compact brushless motors with high torque output, low profile design, and robust performance. Ideal for space-constrained applications.

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