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Personalised manufacturing: Custom-made products
Materialise owns the world's largest RP capacity based in one location and treats these technologies as real production techniques. This puts us in pole position to practice Rapid Manufacturing. At Materialise, we think this is an unfortunate wording. The use of Rapid Prototyping techniques to make end products is just one, yet important method in what we like to label Personalised Manufacturing. In addition, our more conventional technologies like rapid tooling and vacuum casting can contribute to Personalised Manufacturing.
Although personalised manufacturing exhibits a lot of potential, it’s a technology practiced only rarely and not yet well known. At Materialise, however, it has become firmly established. Materialise has been involved somehow with virtually every application that’s currently known in the industry.
The most-known application is undoubtedly the .MGX design collection.
Materialise.MGX
In 2003 Materialise started up a new division – Materialise.MGX – focusing on design products made with 3D printing techniques.
.MGX combines art and technology by using its high-tech background to produce a series of exceptional design products.
Technologies like stereolithography and selective laser sintering offer an almost unlimited freedom of design. The aim of .MGX is to unleash a new era of mass customised design based on RP technology.
Read more about .MGX Design products on this website
Materialise SurgiGuides
This is another solution in which Materialise integrates advanced design automation and rapid prototyping technology to facilitate mass customization.
Based on the patient's anatomy (obtained via CT scans), custom drill guides for dental implants are designed and manufactured.
Read more about SurgiGuide on the Materialise Dental website
Rapid Shell Modeling (RSM)
We have developed a complete software solution to design custom hearing aid shells & earmoulds in a few minutes. The resulting designs can be produced directly by a rapid prototyping machine. More than 1,5 million shells have already been produced successfully by hearing aid manufacturers all over the world.
Read more about RSM in our software products overview on this website