Philips Medicine Systems
| Philips Medical Systems DMC GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1987 |
| Seat | Hamburg , Germany |
| management | Leonardus Ammerlaan (Chairman),
Gerard van Manen, Dr. Thomas Piehler |
| Number of employees | 1,180 (2014) |
| Branch | Medical technology |
| Website | Philips Healthcare |
The company Philips Medical Systems Development and Manufacturing Center (DMC) GmbH (short: Philips Medical Systems) is part of Koninklijke Philips NV (Royal Philips NV, short: Philips) and assigned to the Philips Healthcare division (Healthcare sales: 9.575 billion euros (2013)). Philips Medical Systems is a production facility for X-ray tubes with historic headquarters on Röntgenstrasse in Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel . The company Philips Medical Systems emerged in 1987 from the renaming of the Hamburg company CHF Müller, which Philips had already taken over in 1927.
founding
The founder of the CHF Müller company , Carl Heinrich Florenz Müller , was the manufacturer of the first X-ray tube that could be used for medical purposes. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen , who discovered the X-rays named after him on November 8, 1895 , never applied for a patent for his discovery, which enabled the production of X-ray tubes to begin in Hamburg as early as 1896. Six weeks after the discovery by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, the first X-ray tube from CHF Müller went into clinical use at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf . Presumably this is the first clinical use worldwide. From then on, the "CHF Müller Röntgenwerk" operated X-ray technology, and from 1924 onwards , electron tubes were also produced at the site under the Valvo brand for the newly emerging market of radio receivers.
After the first research in the field of X-ray tubes started at Philips in 1917, X-ray tube production began three years later, in 1920, with the result of the first Philips X-ray tube in 1922. On April 17, 1927, the company CHF Müller , its owner since 1909 the chemist Max Liebermann was, as well as the subsidiary Radio Röhrenfabrik GmbH ("Valvo") in the possession of the Philips AG under the name "CFH Müller company division of the Philips GmbH". The combination of CHF Müller's many years of experience in the manufacture of X-ray tubes in Hamburg with the results of research into X-ray tubes in Eindhoven forms an important basis for Philips' later success in medical technology worldwide . Since then, Philips Medical Systems has been headquartered in Hamburg. Another branch was located in Böblingen .
Description of the location today
Two business units are located at the DMC , which are assigned to the Philips Healthcare division: Diagnostic X-ray (DXR) and Imaging Components (IC). It is also the location for Philips Research. Around 1,280 employees currently work at the DMC, 1,180 of them under DXR and GTC and around 100 in research.
In the IC business unit, generators , tubes and components for imaging systems based on X-rays are developed and manufactured. Hamburg is the global headquarters for development , production and service for more than 100 products. Further locations are in Suzhou , Shenyang and Best .
In the DXR business unit, systems for the global market are developed, manufactured and marketed in the following areas:
- Digital radiography
- Analog radiography
- Mobile radiography
- Universal radiography / fluoroscopy
Hamburg is the global headquarters for development, production , service and marketing for more than 30 products. Further locations are in Suzhou, Belo Horizonte , Pune , Mumbai and Solna .
Web links
Individual evidence
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