Essentium, Inc., a leading global provider of 3D printing solutions for manufacturing industries, and Vorum, a leader in CAD/CAM processes for the global O&P market, announced an exclusive global partnership. The partnership will deliver Essentium + Vorum, a 3D print solution for Orthotics & Prosthetics (O&P) customers worldwide that offers practitioners a SurePath to success for the production of mass-customized O&P devices at speed and scale. It also provides a proven transition methodology including proof of concept mapped to individual customer business goals, design, deployment path, training, installation and support.
Until now, the absence of a reliable 3D printing platform and the lack of materials able to produce O&P devices of optimal strength and weight have been a major barrier to health organizations establishing 3D printing O&P devices. The Essentium + Vorum partnership eliminates these barriers. The partnership brings together the Essentium High-Speed Extrusion (HSE) 3D printing platform and materials with Vorum’s O&P CAD/CAM solutions and SurePath methodology. With 30 years of experience in O&P digital processes, Vorum developed SurePath to provide O&P clinicians with a proven approach for 3D printing implementation, training and support.
This program’s commitment to intentional and tailored goal-setting and tracking will help O&P practitioners make a swift and successful transition from plaster-casting methods to 3D printing in any O&P production setting. It removes the risk, complexity and economic barriers of moving from legacy O&P production to 3D production. By delivering the benefits of scale, speed, reliability and mass-customization, it will give O&P practitioners more time to focus on patient health, and patient access to the most advanced O&P devices available.
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Dave King says
It will be interesting to see what improvements over a conventional prosthetic are seen. I would first look at strength of the FDM materials verses the titanium and aluminium bits used now. Then there is weight concerns of having to weigh under 2kg. And then you have durability concerns of the materials. I have seen a few attempts at doing this over the past few years but none sucsessful due to the process or materials etc. A prosthetic is a pretty high stress device in places and it has to last.