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How digital manufacturing is making prosthetics more personal

How digital manufacturing is making prosthetics more personal

Posted On 25 September 2022 By Protolabs
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.
Surgical instruments, aids and models and the role of digital manufacturing

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

Posted On 18 September 2022 By Protolabs
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.
Speeding up product development for medical devices

Speeding up product development for medical devices

Posted On 11 September 2022 By Protolabs
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.
3D printing and customised medical implants

3D printing and customised medical implants

Posted On 04 September 2022 By Protolabs
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.
Digital manufacturing and the future of dentistry

Digital manufacturing and the future of dentistry

Posted On 29 August 2022 By Protolabs
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.
Consultative Design Analysis

Consultative Design Analysis Prepares Parts for Production

Posted On 05 July 2022 By Nicole Hopper
Our new consultative design service addresses design feedback and gets your parts ready for manufacturability within our automated system.
Medical Device Development

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

Posted On 03 May 2019 By Annie Cashman
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.
Safkan product

We love inventors – and inventions – here at Protolabs

Posted On 18 March 2019 By Matt Hatch
Every year, more than 12 million people visit their physicians for impacted earwax removal. Now, this new ear-care medical device has been developed, with help from Protolabs’ Cool Idea Award, which can clean a patient’s ear in just 35 seconds, bringing a much-needed—and fast—solution.
Japet exoskeleton

Innovative medical device combats lumbar pain

Posted On 28 November 2018 By Laura Reeves
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.