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How digital manufacturing is making prosthetics more personal
Industry Insight
25/09/2022

How digital manufacturing is making prosthetics more personal

Digital manufacturing is shaping the future of prosthetics and orthotics by producing more personalised and comfortable solutions faster and at a lower cost. It is also accelerating the development of new ideas through rapid prototyping to test new solutions.
By Protolabs
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Surgical instruments, aids and models and the role of digital manufacturing
Industry Insight
18/09/2022

Surgical instruments, aids and models and the role of digital manufacturing

Digital manufacturing is revolutionising surgery. It provides both surgeons and instrument manufacturers with the information and equipment that they need to achieve better results faster and more cost effectively.
By Protolabs
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Speeding up product development for medical devices
Industry Insight
11/09/2022

Speeding up product development for medical devices

Getting a new medical device from concept through approval and to manufacture to the deadlines that you and your team expect is a real challenge. Yet something that the recent pandemic has taught us is that it is possible to innovate and achieve production quickly when it is really needed.
By Protolabs
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3D printing and customised medical implants
3D Printing
04/09/2022

3D printing and customised medical implants

3D printing is making major inroads into customising medical implants for individuals. It allows implant manufacturers and sometimes even hospitals to create complex geometries and patient specific solutions that saves the surgeon time and improves a patient’s outcome.
By Protolabs
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Digital manufacturing and the future of dentistry

Digital manufacturing and the future of dentistry

Major dental work traditionally takes days of time and effort but as technology evolves even complex treatment is possible in just a few hours thanks to digital technology.
By Protolabs
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Medical Device Development
3D Printing
03/05/2019

How Metal 3D Printing can be a Game Changer for Medical Device Development

Our original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners in the medical industry are constantly pushing the limits with metal 3D printing, challenging us and other outsourcing suppliers to advance and innovate within this process.
By Annie Cashman
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Japet exoskeleton
Case Study
28/11/2018

Innovative medical device combats lumbar pain

Japet Medical Devices is a French start-up specialising in medical robotics, created in 2016 by Antoine Noël and Damien Bratic who had both recently qualified from Centrale Lille University. The company, based in Lille’s Eurasanté park, is preparing to launch Atlas, the first functional rehabilitation exoskeleton designed to relieve lumbar pain.
By Laura Reeves
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