Rapid prototyping allows the design and the realization of components in different sectors: starting from automotive to aviation: working quality and support given during R&D are crucial to give life to incredible particulars.
However, rapid prototyping is fundamental to support the best machine available on Earth: human body. In fact, during the last decade, the medical sector started adopting different techniques (from engineering to industrial design) both to create medical components and create prosthesis and inserts implanted during surgeries.
Such an approach offers numerous advantages.
When new machines are developed, rapid prototyping gives the possibility to create 3D prototypes useful to make tests and identify possible design defect, so that the final quality and efficiency are positively impacted. Of course, they are crucial elements since the medical sector has an impact on people’s health.
Rapid prototyping allows realizing components fast, too: during the pandemic, 3D printing gave rapid solutions and alternatives to the few medical machines available.
The process quality and the details reproduces are useful to teach in schools and university and prepare doctors before surgeries, too. In this way, surgeons can visualise different step of a future work with no risks for patients’ lives.
In the end, the possibility to implement rapid prototyping with a big range of materials (considered also the biocompatible ones) allows a trustful recreation of equipment, which is in contact with the patient’s body such as bones, teeth, prosthesis, implants or even organs.
PARTEC makes his rapid prototyping expertise available for the medical sector: we are sure to be able to satisfy clients thanks to the different techniques and materials.
Vacuum casting and resin are useful to create medical equipment with excellent features and dimensional fidelity, while stereolithography is used to print items required in the prosthesis development (such as master for braces).