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Simple Up X-⁠ray patient platform At the right height. No step stool.

Your patient takes a low step up, holds the grab handles with both hands and is raised to the right imaging height, anywhere up to 85 cm. So you can work upright.

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  • 200+ delivered since 2011
  • Designed and assembled in Leusden, the Netherlands

200 kg max. patient weight

200+ Simple Ups delivered since 2011

  • 100+ outside the Netherlands
  • 60+ in the United Kingdom
  • 9 countries

Delivered to the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands, where we have supplied more than 35 hospitals and diagnostic centres.

Customers in the Netherlands include

Step stool or patient platform: see the difference

On a step stool, your patient takes a high step up to a fixed height. In the photos (a staged situation): the same room, the same patient and the same examination.

Radiographer bending over beside a patient standing on a step stool for a knee X-ray
Step stool
  • High step up to imaging height
  • This step stool: no handles for a two-handed grip
  • Fixed height, not adjustable
The same patient standing on the Simple Up for the knee X-ray, holding the grab handles
Simple Up
  • 15.5 cm step-on height, with grab handles on both sides
  • 74 × 47 cm rubber anti-slip mat
  • You work upright, at the right height
Photo: earlier version of the Simple Up

How the Simple Up works

Two buttons on the platform and an optional remote control. A beep and a green light tell you when your patient can step on or off.

  1. Patient stepping onto the lowered platform and holding both handles

    Step 1: Stepping on

    Press the up button once. The platform moves to the 15.5 cm step-on position and then rests on its frame instead of on its wheels. You hear a beep and the green light comes on: your patient can step on.

  2. Patient standing on the raised platform in front of the wall bucky, holding the grab handles

    Step 2: Raising to imaging height

    Press and hold the up button. The platform rises to any height up to 85 cm and stops as soon as you let go. Your patient holds the grab handles with both hands; you stay with them and work upright.

  3. Patient stepping off the platform in the step-on position

    Step 3: Lowering and stepping off

    Press and hold the down button: the platform stops automatically in the step-on position. When the green light is on, your patient steps off. Wait until your patient has stepped off; only then press and hold the down button again to put the platform back on its wheels. The platform cannot detect whether anyone is standing on it: no one may stand on the platform while it is on its wheels.

The Simple Up CL 3.0 in its lowest position, with turquoise grab handles and an anti-slip standing surface

The Simple Up CL 3.0 at a glance

Dimensions (L × W × H)
131 × 52 × 112 cm (lowest position)
Standing surface
74 × 47 cm
Step-on height
15.5 cm
Standing surface height
up to 85 cm
Max. patient weight
200 kg
Battery
Lithium-ion, 29.6 V, 296 Wh

All specifications, accessories and downloads

Control panel on the platform with up and down buttons and a battery indicator
Control panel with battery indicator
Bluetooth remote control in a holder on the side of the platform
Corded or Bluetooth remote control (optional)
Optional safety bar between the grab handles; a label on the cover states the 200 kg maximum
Safety bar: extra crossbar between the grab handles (optional). Does not replace supervision.

Made for standing X-⁠rays in the X-⁠ray room

The Simple Up raises a standing adult patient in a controlled way to the right height for the X-⁠ray, so that you can work upright.

  • Weight-bearing knee X-⁠rays
  • Weight-bearing ankle and foot X-⁠rays
  • Other standing X-⁠rays where the patient needs to stand higher
Radiographer positioning the knees of a patient standing on the Simple Up

Weight-bearing knee, ankle and foot X-⁠rays

At the right height for the wall bucky, while your patient holds on with both hands. For a lateral foot view, place the foot on a PVC plate approximately 2 cm thick (see the FAQ).

Photo: earlier version of the Simple Up

Patient standing on the raised platform, with the X-ray tube in front

Standing X-⁠rays

A 74 × 47 cm standing surface and grab handles on both sides to hold on to with both hands.

From clinical practice

The Simple Up is a fantastic improvement for our department in orthopaedic imaging (…). Since we started using the Simple Up, steps and step stools that are too low are a thing of the past.

Funs Schlangen Zuyderland Medisch Centrum, Sittard-Geleen · on an earlier version of the Simple Up (translated)

Nothing but winners. (…) And the radiographer no longer has to lift or bend over to provide support. In this case, it really is a win-win.

Gamma Nieuws Dutch journal for radiographers (NVMBR), article ‘Alleen maar winnaars’ (Nothing but winners) · on an earlier version of the Simple Up (translated)

Service and maintenance for your Simple Up

From installation to annual inspection: we make sure your Simple Up keeps working properly. The terms below apply to our service agreement in the Netherlands; outside the Netherlands, your distributor provides service on its own terms. In countries without a distributor, please contact us.

  • Installation and training

    After delivery, we or your distributor train the users in your department, so that everyone uses the Simple Up correctly.

  • Service agreement

    Our service agreement follows the Dutch standard service agreement (SSO) of NEVI Zorg, WIBAZ and FHI, version 4.1 or 3.2. We schedule the safety inspection and maintenance every year.

  • New battery in year three

    Under our standard service agreement, we replace the battery as a preventive measure in the third calendar year, at no extra cost.

  • Help with faults

    With a service agreement, we respond to your report within 8 working hours and, if necessary, a service engineer is on site within 24 working hours. Service remains available for up to 7 years after the end of production.

Report a fault or incident

Call +31 33 434 50 60 (Mon–Fri 08:30–17:00 CET/CEST) or use the contact form. Please have the serial number ready: it is on the rating plate above the charging socket.

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Three Simple Ups side by side at different heights

About Melius Pro

Melius Pro designs and assembles the Simple Up in Leusden. We supply it to the radiology departments of hospitals and diagnostic centres, in the Netherlands and abroad, and work with distributors internationally.

See the Simple Up in your own department

We or your distributor will visit you to give a demonstration. Hospitals and diagnostic centres in the Netherlands can also trial the Simple Up free of charge for two weeks, with no obligation to buy. If a tender is being prepared or is under way, this is only possible within that procedure. Outside the Netherlands, your distributor will advise you on an on-site trial, or we will if there is no distributor in your country.

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The Simple Up CL 3.0 in its highest position, with the bellows visible

Contact Melius Pro

A demonstration, a quotation, parts or a fault? Tell us how we can help. Outside the Netherlands? Enter your country and we will put you in touch with your local distributor or, if there is none, help you ourselves.

Incident or safety issue?

Call us immediately on +31 33 434 50 60, or choose the subject ‘Report an incident or safety issue’ in the form. Outside office hours (Mon–Fri 08:30–17:00 CET/CEST): take the Simple Up out of use and report it via the form; we will contact you on the next working day. Please also report a serious incident to the competent authority in your country.

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Distributors outside the Netherlands

Our distributors are independent companies that supply and service the Simple Up on their own terms. Is your country not listed? Contact us and we will be glad to help. Would you like to distribute the Simple Up in your country? Choose ‘Become a distributor’ in the form.