Healthcare's Pneumatic Tube Delivery System Expert

For nearly 30 years, Pevco™ has provided high-quality, reliable pneumatic tube delivery systems to hospitals and healthcare facilities throughout North America.

We have earned our reputation as the smartest choice in delivery systems by anticipating and satisfying our clients’ needs, from lab personnel to nurses to facility engineers to pharmacists. Our flexible, intelligent products are cost-effective and consistently improve hospitals’ delivery of medications, specimens and supplies.

PRODUCTS

Pevco provides a complete line of delivery system products tailored to the unique requirements of healthcare professionals. We are 100% focused on hospital pneumatic tube delivery solutions. We have decades of practical experience designing systems tailored to each hospital’s requirements. And we are constantly working to build upon our proven approach to the cost-effective, safe, reliable and fast delivery of pharmaceuticals, lab specimens, blood products and patient care supplies.

In addition to Pevco’s expertise in the design and installation of new and expanding systems, our products can also upgrade or replace competing systems - and Pevco delivery systems are not dependent on expensive proprietary parts.

Our products include:

• Pevco CARRIER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM™ - ensures a supply of empty carriers by delivering them to stations that need them, automatically. After a delivery is received, the user simply returns the empty carrier to the system. The system computer determines whether to send the carrier directly to another station or place it in storage units built into the tube system. The system monitors the carrier count at each station and automatically sends empty carriers to stations in need. In addition, any user lacking carriers can request one with the touch of a button and an empty carrier is delivered to the requesting station in seconds. Decrease or eliminate telephone requests for empty carriers and save time - a must for busy labs, pharmacies and emergency rooms.

• Pevco DELIVERY STATIONS - with the touch of a button, Pevco Delivery Stations quickly and safely transport pharmaceuticals, lab specimens, blood products and medical supplies between emergency rooms, labs, nurses’ stations, operating rooms and pharmacies. Easy to use, and reliable too, our delivery stations come in an assortment of designs and sizes to accommodate any hospital environment. And all stations feature advanced, user-friendly Smart Control panels. Whether a hospital needs to add one station to an existing system, or dozens of stations to a new facility, our designers work with hospital architects, facility planners and management to determine the best stations to suit their space, budget and usage requirements. Our station designs include Pevco's: Compact Delivery Station, Standard Delivery Station, Space-Saver Delivery Station, Accusend Delivery Station and Maxi Delivery Station.

• Pevco DIVERTERS & BLOWERS - are designed and built for one purpose - hospital pneumatic tube delivery systems. We understand the demands of hospital operations and have designed our equipment to hold up over years of operation. Our diverters and blowers are built to reduce downtime and make maintenance trouble-free. We use off-the-shelf components, so spare parts are always close at hand - whether shipped from our warehouse in Baltimore or from a hospital’s local industrial supply company.

• Pevco LEAK-RESISTANT CARRIERS - are designed for worry-free transport of all medical materials. Our carriers are made of durable plastic and come with a warranty against defects in materials and workmanship. The patented design safely contains fumes and odors within an airtight body, and the carriers’ leak-resistant seal, steel hinge and latches protect against spills. Our carriers are designed to be durable and easy to maintain. Long-wearing, replaceable gasket seals, Velcro wear bands and low-profile latches ensure that carriers will hold up under high-use conditions. Reducing the risk of leakage also prevents costly and time-consuming clean-up and system downtime. In addition to carriers, Pevco offers a full line of foam inserts to further protect materials in transit. Our foam inserts come precut and shaped to cushion and hold the items placed inside. Pevco Leak-Resistant Carriers can be used in virtually all pneumatic tube delivery systems. Both 4” and 6” models are available

• Pevco SMART CONTROLS™ - not only enable users to send a carrier to any station with the touch of a button, they also monitor all carrier traffic, calculate the fastest path for each transaction, optimize the entire system and provide detailed reporting. Consisting of a workstation with customizable software and control panels and electronics, Pevco Smart Controls ensure a system’s reliability and efficiency. And, Pevco Smart Controls can enhance the operation of poorly functioning competitor systems by replacing underperforming components. Smart Controls are easy to operate and support. Hospital engineering professionals can adjust their preferences, run diagnostics themselves and view every transaction as it occurs.

• Pevco SMART PATH™ - greatly improves the efficiency of both small and large delivery systems, boosting performance by reducing wait times and increasing blower efficiency and delivery speed. Smart Path is available for new systems, existing systems and upgrades to other manufacturers’ systems. With Smart Path™, the delivery system’s tube and diverter configuration allows any blower to handle any transaction from anywhere in the system from start to finish. This change in design and operation eliminates the dependence on a single blower for an individual zone, and effectively eliminates downtime for blower preventative maintenance.

• Pevco TRACKER™ - provides a searchable real-time audit trail for patient-critical pneumatic tube system transactions, including pharmaceuticals, blood products and lab specimens. The Pevco Tracker: Reduces Costly Errors, Provides Instant Access to Data, Delivers Real-Time Status Messages, Relies on Proven Technology and is Easy To Implement and Expand.

Founded in 1975, Air Link International has remained a leading full-service company for 35 years.

Offering quality and efficient custom solutions for pneumatic tube systems, Air Link has fitted more than 20,000 systems worldwide in over 10 countries. A family owned and operated company; Air Link designs and manufactures its own system components. Today, Air Link provides the ideal tube system solution for the quick and easy transport of sensitive goods to the medical industry.

Air Links flexible designs allow us to create the most efficient system to meet your needs ranging from the most basic system to a complex custom semi-automatic or fully-automatic multi-station computer programmed system. To ensure all your needs are met, our friendly customer service and sales staff work individually with customers to guarantee that the correct system for your location is delivered. Once the right system is fitted, customers can take advantage of Air Links nation-wide network of independent companies to install the new air tube system anywhere in America.

Ideal for:

• Laboratories
• Hospitals
• Blood Banks
• Pharmacies
• Emergency Rooms
• Intensive Care Units
• Surgery, Radiology
• Dialysis
• Central Stores
• Patient Nursing Stations

Choose Your System

Point-to-Point System:
Two-way dedicated sending & receiving system, designed to transfer carriers with contents between two designated locations. This system is ideal when the job requires information sharing from two different locations without the need to interrupt production for transfer.

Semi-Automatic System:
The Semi-Automatic systems function with a main station as a transfer hub and can be set-up to deliver and receive from multiple remote stations. Remote stations are configured to only send directly to the main station, whereas the designated main station can send to any of the remote stations. These systems are ideal when information is collected from multiple departments and processed at a central department. It is easily expandable for additional locations, and can be easily upgraded to a fully-automatic system.

Fully-Automatic System:
The Fully-Automatic system integrates an entire network of stations to transfer documents, cash, lab samples, medications or small items from all points. In this system, all destinations can send and receive to each of the other stations. This system is typically used when a larger number of interacting stations are needed (usually four or more). The Fully-Automatic system is an affordable option for facilities requiring high volume transfer and is easily expandable at any time. Additionally, this system uses up to 50% less electricity with pneumatically controlled devices as opposed to electric-mechanical devices.

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Pneumatic Tube Systems - High Speed, Light Unit Load Transport

Swisslog is the leading world provider of pneumatic tube systems. Our pneumatic tube systems - also called air tube systems - enable fast and secure on-demand light material transport for the special needs of healthcare, but are also applied to industrial, commercial and retail and distribution applications. We manufacture a variety of tube systems designed for the global needs in a variety of industries.

Swisslog pneumatic tube systems efficiently transport carriers at high speeds with proven reliability. Tube systems provide air cushioned transport with soft delivery. Swisslog offers total system design, manufacturing, installation and customer support – providing you with a complete supply chain management approach to your logistics challenges.

Benefits of pneumatic tube systems:

• High speed, light unit material transport on demand
• Reliable air-cushioned transport of delicate items
• Improved efficiency and productivity
• Long-distance transport overhead, underground, between buildings
• Outstanding ROI

Since our beginning in 1967, Zip Pneumatics, Inc. (ZPI) has been servicing the U.S. with state-of-the-art pneumatic transport system technology. We are innovators in the industry with technology such as the first touch screen used in automatic systems, the fast and reliable pneumatic controls, RFID tracking, security card readers and transaction announcements.
Hospital pneumatic tube systems are technologically advanced, computer controlled, and designed to service all areas of your facility. That’s where ZPI excels.

These are just some of our Automatic and Semi-Automatic System Features:

• Touch Screen Station Interface
• Security Card Interface
• Soft Delivery
• Carrier Forwarding
• Transaction History
• Dispatch Pending
• RFID Tracking
• Announcements
• Critical Messaging
• STAT and Secured Transactions
• Station Sign-Off
• Automatic Self-Purge
• and many more.

ZPI understands that while all hospitals have the same departments, all hospital staff and facilities are unique and require unique designs and solutions. Our systems are customized to fit the specific needs of each individual hospital. Whether you need a simple point-to-point system between the ER and Lab or a fully automatic system servicing all departments, our systems are designed and installed to fit your specific needs. And because we control the complete process, from the design to training and service, you can be confident no detail will be missed.

Customer Support
ZPI believes exceptional customer support is why we have such high customer loyalty. When you call ZPI you don’t get a recording, you get a living, breathing person ready to help you. Our customer support is available 24/7 with remote login over the phone or Internet. We are there to make sure all of your needs are met.