Case Study
Empowering Patients With Customized Prosthetics in Record Time
The How large 3D Printing makes a Social Impact in Prosthetics and Orthotics
Emerge Prosthetics Arts is a dedicated workshop/company providing masterpiece prosthetics for daily use. The company operates and serves clients from all over the USA, providing them with a tailor-made, livable solution for a more improved functioning with the use of prosthetics.
The Challenge
There are a number of significant factors when dealing with printing prosthetics, most notably size, material, speed. The goal of making any prosthesis is that you will effectively be able to treat everyone that comes in within a reasonable timeframe.
The Solution
“I wanted a ‘lights out’ production machine. The ability to print large and lots of items all at once. I can literally run the printer all week, and just replace the filament as I need to!”, says the company CEO.
“Taking prints and gluing them together is a whole other engineering problem. Making things that fit well, or that are perfect or seamless, is actually quite difficult. Modix enables us to overcome this and print in one seamless print.”
“We can print casts for molds, or the actual skin (of the prosthesis). Size is not an issue, neither is volume – we can have 30 objects printed on the bed simultaneously. The quality I’ve gotten on the parts is just improving every iteration that I have got so far.”
Information box:
Website: www.emergeprosthetics.com
Application: Digital Manufacturing
Vertical: Prosthetics & Orthotics
Printers: Modix BIG-120X
