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Smart, Seamless and Biomed-Ready: Fluke Biomedical Unveils the ESA 710
Recorded live on April 16, 2025, at MD Expo Temecula, this episode features a powerful conversation with Justin Ross and Jamie Spragis of Fluke Biomedical, as they unveil the revolutionary ESA 710, a smart electrical safety analyzerbuilt to streamline HTM workflows.
Host Bryant “B-Hawk” Hawkins explores how this new technology integrates directly with CMMS platforms, enables cloud-based backups, provides step-by-step visual procedures, and empowers new and seasoned biomedical technicians alike. From ECG simulation to barcode scanning and automated documentation, this smart analyzer isn’t just efficient — it’s transformative.
Whether you're a biomed manager, field service tech, or HTM educator, this episode will change how you think about safety testing in 2025 and beyond.
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Good morning. We're live from MD Expo in Temecula. I have two special guests from a company called Fluke Biomedical. I'll let them introduce themselves to you first.
Justin Smith:Hi, I'm Justin Ross. With Fluke Biomedical I'm one of our product specialists.
Jamie Spragis:And I'm Jamie Sprat. Just with Fluke Biomedical, I'm an EQA sales engineer.
Bryant Hawkins:How are you guys doing?
Justin Smith:Oh, we're absolutely awesome, brother, brother, it's an exciting day for us y'all enjoying temecula so far yeah, yeah.
Jamie Spragis:Well, we've been inside most of the time. You know, I was gonna say it's the weather's great inside us here casino.
Justin Smith:Yes, we know that part yeah, but the meaning we're talking though oh yeah, man, I mean, like for us, like I said, it's a really exciting time for us right now. We had something under wraps the last few months and it's busting out today. So it's been a lot of excitement, a lot of high energy with the Fluke team today.
Bryant Hawkins:So what's going on? What's this great news Can?
Justin Smith:you all share.
Jamie Spragis:Well, we are launching and releasing a brand new electrical safety analyzer, kind of on the front end of being on a smart instrument side of the business. Safety analyzer kind of on the front end of being on a smart instrument side of the business. You know BHAWK, so many things in our biomed industry. Add steps right. You open your CMMS step one, step two, step three. You close your CMMS step two, three, four, five, six. We've launched a product to reduce steps in the biomed's daily workflow.
Bryant Hawkins:So what's?
Justin Smith:this called. So this is our brand new ESA 700 series safety analyzer. So not only is it a safety analyzer, but we're calling it a smart analyzer.
Bryant Hawkins:Is it AI driven?
Justin Smith:Yeah, well, it's darn near AI driven man. So what we're going to do is we're going to take. So when you think about our day as a technician man we got to go out to, we got to find our workload and what we got to go do. What we've done is we've integrated our CMMS into our analyzer so you can jump into the analyzer with a barcode scanner. You can either use it just as an analyzer, but if you can take that CMMS, jump into here, take a barcode skin instrument and it'll pull up your procedure and walk you right through, including pictures.
Justin Smith:So we all know things like you know, if you flip around step seven and step nine, you can shave some time. So you can build that procedure, have it right here at your fingertips when it comes time for electrical safety. It's going to do all your measurements for you and save the exact figures into it. You can even do things like add temperatures and weights and RPMs and pressures and all that, enter it right here in the device and then take those results and launch it right back into your CMMS. Boom, not just that, but it also backs it up on the cloud, so you have a backup of all your workhorse. So say, your SEMA mess goes down today, you have a backup copy of it out there on the cloud, ready for you whenever you need it.
Bryant Hawkins:So the cloud has to be hooked up to the Wi-Fi for it to happen.
Justin Smith:It can. It can. So the analyzer itself will save up to 10,000 results internal and we can either use a USB-C cable to download them to our laptop and then up to the cloud, or we have a secure Wi-Fi adapter, not just Wi-Fi secure. So because we know every hospital in the United States man data security is such an issue with us, we got you covered. We have secure Wi-Fi adapters. You can put encryption on it and launch over the hospital's encrypted network back to that cloud.
Bryant Hawkins:How many measurements can you save in the cloud?
Jamie Spragis:It'll save 10,000 measurements in the device. Yeah, yeah, we'll never use that. In a week or two, you know that's right, that's right, that's right. That's a a week or two. You know that's right, that's right, that's right. That's a couple months for them, you know.
Bryant Hawkins:So I'm looking at it right here. Does it measure ECG or what?
Justin Smith:Yeah, so we have a built-in five-lead ECG simulator and we can test up to 10 applied parts on top of it. But say like you're working on an EMG man, you got to test all those 1 million leads on an EMG hat, right? So what you can do is you guys use one of our adapters from our older safety analyzer and I can put 10 leads under each of these points. But check this out, man. I know you guys can't see this when you're online, but I need to be plugged in for this. It'll light up and tell you which port to use. So the thing lights up like a Christmas tree and it'll drive you right through the procedure.
Bryant Hawkins:So it will give you direction on how to use it.
Jamie Spragis:Visual direction. You can have a visual. You can put a picture of how to hook it up, how the monitor is. You can take a picture of the medical device.
Justin Smith:You can take a picture of how you hook it up so you can use visualization with your new techs you know. So you can take, like say, you have an old tech, old tech man, a guy who's just sent him out to school, and I shouldn't say a guy. You take a tech, you send him out to anesthesia machine school. What's that cost for a week of anesthesia machine school?
Bryant Hawkins:um the cost yeah, at about wait, I'm not allowed to ask you questions?
Justin Smith:he done, he done. Told me not to ask him questions and I'm already getting cut and I didn't even get to get start. Look at those Christmas lights.
Bryant Hawkins:It's about $9,500 right now.
Justin Smith:Yeah, $9,500 per week. So as soon as you train up one of your technicians, man, he's got all that knowledge. What's the next thing that happens? Somebody else steals them and you lost your knowledge. So what we can do here, man, is we can take this and we can build your procedure into this, and we can take that knowledge base and save it into our system so that the young tech can follow through those instructions with next to no training, just following the steps, adding the pictures boom.
Bryant Hawkins:Wow, that's amazing, that's game changing.
Justin Smith:It is game changing, game changing.
Bryant Hawkins:You're absolutely right, but let me ask you a question. What is this list of things right here?
Justin Smith:These are a bunch of different procedures that we built into our system and loaded it into here, so it'll walk you right here. So it's like a patient bed. This will walk you right through the entire patient bed procedure. So all the questions you'd have in your SEMA med system. You don't need your cell phone, you don't need your laptop, you don't need a notebook All your questions right here. Man, look at that. What's it say?
Bryant Hawkins:Confirm the exterior of the bed is clean and undamaged.
Justin Smith:We're going to say our bed's clean and undamaged. We're going to hit, pass there, green light, go, move to the next step. And we're going to go through all the questions in our CMMS right here and wait, wait, check this out, check this out. Boom Picture, how to do the rail test. Wait, and now check this out. Next step we need to put weights on. Where do you put the weights? Right there, see that picture with the weights. And we got to enter weight Brian. I'm going to have to ask you a favor, man, because you're on the other side. Can you type a number between 49 and 51? Yeah, let's see what a pet does. No, no, dude, run it. Yeah, you're good. Oh, oh, passed. So you got. Wait, wait. Now you're here again. Now we have to do it. 200 pounds. Try another number.
Jamie Spragis:Do it over 202 pounds.
Justin Smith:And hit okay, and what do you get? Big red light. So you know the step failed. Now I can go back and retest that. Maybe I have to calibrate that scale. I can retest it and get our answers. Now I'm right back into electrical safety and this thing's gonna run my electrical safety testing for me, show me where to hook up my ports, save my results so I can be doing important things like filling up my biomed sticker or drinking a cup of coffee or looking for my next device. So the other neat thing about it is man, as weird as it sounds, because we've all dropped our safety analyzers off the top of endotowers and anesthesia machines. They integrated these two little rubber pads on the bottom. And people say rubber pads, yes, it is, because when you plug it in it's got enough weight that it won't let it get drug off the table.
Jamie Spragis:And you know that's our passion. What are the size of the biomed carts? Now, B-Hawk, Right, you know laptops, Everybody wants a big laptop. You get a laptop electrical safety analyzer, you get patient simulators, you get a couple tools and a clipboard or whatever you need, and you're dropping stuff halfway. So this right here, you know size means something, Size matters right. Size matters. It absolutely does In the biome every year.
Justin Smith:Not only that, but how about this one? What happens if you unplug it? Ah Huh.
Jamie Spragis:What happens when you unplug it.
Justin Smith:So what? I can go down and do devices on the fly as I'm walking down the hallway. So I could literally be walking down the hallway with my safety analyzer on, find a biomed sticker that's expired, take my barcode scanner, scan it, pull up that work order. And when I plug it into the electrical safety.
Bryant Hawkins:it'll start to charge itself again. Wow, that's amazing. Well, man, I appreciate you guys coming on Spending a little time with me in the Expo Temecula. This is the new Fluke ESA 710.
Justin Smith:When does it come on the market. It starts today, today.
Bryant Hawkins:Once again, justin and Jamie, thanks for coming on, man, I appreciate the energy you guys brought to the podcast today.
Jamie Spragis:So B-Hawk, I want to leave you with this. Your passion is the next generation of biomeds right, it's exciting and igniting that passion, like we had right. Giving them new test instrumentation is that path. You know what I mean. Back when we started we got them old boxes that they were broke down. But giving a new guy, you know, because all the biomeds now they're fluent with their phones and that is the latest technology of the world right, and that is the latest technology of the world right In the medical device world. Instrumentation gets them excited to want to go out and have a piece of instrument like that to go do their PMs, because it makes it a smart device, not just a standalone device, and it's new, cutting-edge technology. That's what the passion is all about. Thank you, bianca Hi.
