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3D INDUSTRY NEWS 3D Systems and Stryker Team Up
to Advance Personalized Surgery
3D Systems, Rock Hill, SC, provider of 3D products and services, and Stryker Corpora- tion, Kalamazoo, MI, a medical- technology company, have announced an exclusive distri- bution partnership for VSP (vir- tual surgical planning) and anatomical models for the cran- iomaxillofacial specialty. This partnership hopes to drive the availability of personalized sur- gical planning and techniques to healthcare professionals.
3D Systems’ VSP technology
received FDA market clearance
as a service-based approach to
personalized surgery, combin-
ing expertise in medical imag-
ing, surgical simulation and 3D
printing. Surgeons initiate the
process, bringing their clinical
knowledge and desired surgical plans to an online web meeting with a 3D Systems biomedical engineer to simulate and plan the surgical procedure. The outcome, a digital plan, transfers to the operating room via accurate 3D-printed patient-specific models, guides and templates.
“Collaborating with surgeons to deliver the best possible patient outcomes is of the utmost importance to our company,” says Kevin McAlea, executive vice president and general manager of metals and healthcare, 3D Systems. “With the advancement of 3D printing, combined with the surgeon’s ability to use our Virtual Surgical Planning and anatomical modeling technologies, a patient’s life can be forever changed. It provides surgeons with the ability to have a clear 3D visu- alization of a patient’s anatomy and to develop a customized surgical plan prior to even entering the operating room.”
3D Systems has provided VSP or anatomical services in more than 100,000 personalized medi- cine cases. Stryker’s craniomaxillofacial business specializes in providing patient-specific options and innovative solutions that help drive efficiencies in surgical suites.
“This partnership allows us to better support the rapidly evolving needs of our customers and accelerate innovation in the area of personalized medicine,” says David Mercado, vice president and general manager, Stryker. ”We are very pleased that 3D Systems chose us as its long-term collaborator in this space.”
The agreement between 3D Systems and Stryker is specific to the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia.
Sciaky to Adopt Siemens PLM Software
Sciaky, Inc., Chicago, IL, a provider of metal additive-manufacturing (AM) systems and services, announced it will adopt Siemens product-lifecycle management (PLM) software for its Electron- Beam AM (EBAM) offerings. Specifically, Sciaky will utilize Siemens’ NX and NX Nastran software for CAD/CAM/CAE applications, integrating its AM offerings into the software that many of its customers use.
Webinar to Tackle Challenges of Laser AM
Gain a greater under- standing of the challenges involved with creating consis- tently strong structures using laser-based AM processes that meet Department of Defense or Food and Drug Administration requirements by attending The Challenges of Laser Additive Manufactur- ing webinar, on February 22 at 1 p.m. EST. Dick Rieley, sales manager, Mid-Atlantic region for Ophir Photonics, will discuss additive laser pro- cessing and high-power laser material processing during this free 3D Metal Printing webcast. Register at regis- ter.gotowebinar.com/regis- ter/4100027571124611330.
Additive Industries Adds AM Veteran to Head Development Team
Additive Industries, Eind- hoven, The Netherlands, has announced that Dr. Mark Beard has joined the compa- ny to head its growing Process & Application Devel- opment team. Until recently he served as technical direc- tor of UK-based 3T RPD, a provider of metal AM and 3D-printing services.
“With more than10 years of experience in AM, Mark will play an important role in execution of our ambition to become a top-three OEM of industrial metal additive- manufacturing systems,” says Daan Kersten, CEO of Addi- tive Industries.
For more on the company’s
3D Systems’ VSP® (Virtual Surgical Planning) enables patient data collected through CT and MRI scans to be converted to a 3D digital model, used to design patient-specific surgical guides.
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