Healthcare & Instrumentation

Jabil helps Healthcare & Life Sciences and Instrumentation customers design, develop and deploy their products around the world. We enable our customers to make a difference in the lives of patients, healthcare providers and other end-users by making medical and healthcare products more functional and attractive. Jabil manages electronic and non-electronic component manufacturing, sub-assemblies and full system assembly; we also make the user experience better through aftermarket support.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
A Safe Pair of Hands
Jabil's Healthcare and Life Sciences Team provides a safe pair of hands that enables medical and pharmaceutical companies to innovate with confidence and increase their competitive advantage. Our nimble, customer-centric business model; industry expertise; and broad, world-class capabilities make Jabil a trusted manufacturing and supply chain partner that helps our customers bring innovative products to market and provide better outcomes for patients.
Partnering with Jabil provides a safe pair of hands whose design, supply chain and manufacturing excellence; product knowledge; reliability and industry expertise accelerates market leadership and innovation. We enable customers to:
- Increase overall nimbleness and speed-to-market
- Effectively and efficiently utilize resources
- Increase competitive advantage by leveraging Jabil's resources across industries, technologies and geographies
- Innovate with a partner committed to healthcare and the track record to confidently deliver in a regulated environment
Healthcare & Life Sciences Experience
Leveraging its strong heritage in healthcare, Jabil offers a broad and deep set of experiences and expertise across a range of medical and pharmaceutical technologies:
Jabil's Analytical Lab Equipment sub-sector includes devices that are used for base component-level identification, discovery, analysis, characterization and measurement of biological or pharmaceutical substances. These medical and healthcare devices are designed with the intent to provide diagnostic output to clinicians or specialized output to medical researchers for experimental decisions.
Medical and healthcare devices are typically a desktop or floor-based form factor with similar functionality including sample handling, separation, treatment and detection modules for substances such as blood, urine, DNA, cells, proteins, pharmaceuticals, etc. that require a sampling input and provide a reported output.
Examples
- Hematology, pathology and immunology equipment
- Biotech equipment such as DNA/gene expression, sequencing & analysis
- Protein & cell analysis including PCR
- Capillary electrophoresis, flow cytometry and generic instrumentation
- Liquid or gas chromatography (LC/GC)
- Mass spectrometry (MS)
Jabil's Imaging subsector includes large-scale imaging equipment, and the accompanying patient movement devices, used in diagnosing a condition or as a method to assist the surgeon in gaining more visibility for a specific procedure.
Examples
- Devices that provide imaging using x-ray, computed tomography (CT) and Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technologies
- Patient Mobility products
- Patient tables or chairs
- Surgical suites utilizing the imaging equipment
Patient Bedside sub-sector includes products and devices that are present in a clinical setting or near the patient during use and that have contact with the patient in a therapy, monitoring or diagnostic functionality.
Examples
- Patient monitors
- Respiratory systems such as ventilator or O2 concentrators
- Infusion systems
- Ultrasound systems
Portable, On-Body and In-Body sub-sector includes miniaturized products and devices that provide a therapeutic, monitoring or diagnostic function.
Examples
- Meters, including coagulation, cholesterol and glucose
- Cardiac implants and communicators
- Neurostimulation implants, treatment and controllers
- Drug delivery devices
- On-body pumps
- Auto-inject pens
- Inhalers
- Other portable devices
Jabil's Single Use Devices sub-sector includes products and devices that are meant to be disposed of after limited uses (usually after a single use).
Examples
- Drug Delivery Systems
- Diagnostic
- Point of Care (POC)
- Self-Administered Therapies
- Surgical & Procedural
Jabil's Surgical & Procedural sub-sector includes products and devices for use by the surgeon within the surgery room or when performing a specific medical procedure at the patient bedside.
Examples
- Various types of endoscopes
- Access devices
- Laser/RF/ultrasound/thermal/fluid ablation devices
- Bone shavers
- Feeding tube placement
- Other procedural treatment devices
Instrumentation Experience
Jabil's healthcare and medical Instrumentation customers are industry leaders in the following areas:
- Spectrum Analyzers
- Network Analyzers
- Wireless Test
- Oscilloscopes
- Network Test
- Signal Analyzers
- LCR Meters
- Multimeters
- Bit Error Rate Testers
- Power meters, analyzers and sensors
- Logic Analyzers
- AC/DC Power Sources
- Signal, Pulse, Data Generators
- Frequency Counters
- Atomic Force Microscopes
- Scanning Electron Microscopes
- SOC Test
- Memory Test
- Hard Disk Drive Test
- Control Systems
- Wafer Loaders
- Process Modules
- NMR
- Mass Spectrometry
- Liquid Chromatography
- Leak Detection
- Gas Chromatography
- AA Spectroscopy
- ICP-OES Spect.
- ICP-AES Spect.
- FT-IR Spect.
- GC-MS
- QQQ-MS
- QTOF MS
- UV-Vis Spect.
- Fluorescence Spectrophotometers
Delivering a Truly Distinct Experience
Customer-Centric Business Model
- Customer dedicated teams that act as an extension of the customer's own operations and can scale solutions to match specific customer needs in the global marketplace.
Industry Expertise
- Market dedicated teams with deep and focused capabilities targeted to healthcare and medical diagnostic, monitoring, analytical and treatment technologies that enable our customers to deliver better patient outcomes.
- Deep knowledge of regulatory requirements globally
Broad, World-Class Capabilities
- Expertise across a broad range of industries, integrating innovative technologies into the medical sector to help modernize devices.
Trusted Partner
- With over 40 years of experience, customers trust Jabil implicitly to deliver leading-edge healthcare and medical products to market globally.
- Unique customer-centric organizational model allows small company responsiveness while leveraging the resources of a Fortune 200 company.
Jabil Understands the Unique Challenges Facing Healthcare & Life Sciences Companies
Globalization has increased both opportunities and challenges for medical and pharmaceutical companies. Expansion into new markets and increased worldwide competition are driving faster product life cycles, as well as demand for new and innovative products at lower price points. These market pressures create challenges:
Innovation
- Staying competitive requires the ability to continuously innovate, ensuring access to advanced design capabilities to develop breakthrough, differentiated products.
Resource Allocation
- Redeployment of capital and resources from manufacturing and design activities to focus on core competencies.
Time-to-Market
- Delivering better devices in the right market window.
Scale
- Underlying these challenges is the need to find a partner you can trust implicitly to help you deliver.
Scalable Capabilities
Jabil accelerates our customers' ability to compete in the global marketplace. We minimize the challenges of bringing innovative, cost effective products to market by tailoring our services to meet the needs of each customer.
Jabil's solutions are designed to deliver a broad range of scalable capabilities across the globe to meet evolving market demands:
Product Design & Development
- Concept Design Collaboration
- Product Definition/Requirements Planning
- Feasibility Studies
- Specification Development
- Prototype Development
- Design Verification
- Test Strategy and Development
Manufacturing & Supply Chain Management
- Versatile Global Manufacturing Footprint
- Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) Compliant Facilities
- Complex System Assembly and Integration
- Advanced Tooling and Molding Capabilities
- Electronics and Mechanical Assembly
- Device Assembly
- Globally Consistent Toolsets
- World-Class Supplier Sourcing
Product Lifecycle Management
- Customer-Focused and Aligned Teams
- Value and Sustaining Engineering
- Globally Adaptable Sourcing Configurations
- Multi-Industry Technology Expertise
- Product Launch
- Aftermarket Service and Refurbishment
- Warranty and Repair
Quality
Jabil has established a single quality system to fulfill FDA-QSR and ISO 13485 requirements without duplication of effort. The Healthcare & Life Sciences Quality Team implements worldwide policies and procedures at Jabil's medical centers of excellence and complies with the following standards:
- ISO 9000:2000
- ISO 18001
- ISO 14000:2004
- ISO 13485:2003
- 21 CFR Part 820
- ISO 14971:2000
- 21 CFR Part 11
- FAA Repair Stations
- UL, CSA and TUV
Global Footprint
Jabil's Healthcare & Instrumentation manufacturing strategies are to establish a limited number of certified facilities to support multiple customers and technologies in key geographies, close to end-user markets, resulting in industry-leading quality at the total lowest-landed cost.
Americas
- Auburn Hills, MI
- Louisville, KY
- San Jose, CA
- Tempe, AZ
Asia
- Gotemba, Japan
- Hachioji, Japan
- Singapore City, Singapore
- Penang, Malaysia
- Shanghai, China
- Wuxi, China
Europe
- Boeblingen, Germany
- Livingston, Scotland
- Tiszaújváros, Hungary
- Vienna, Austria

