A one-stop medical 3D printing service provider that has printed 500,000 parts will establish an additive manufacturing service in China

For international typical metals3D printingThe development route of service providers has been analyzed. No matter which sub-fields they focus on, service providers will follow the same development path: Committed to building one-stop service capabilities, including3D printing, Hot isostatic pressing, forging, casting, machining, quality inspection, including a complete process chain.It can also be seen that these3D printingThe service provider has made comprehensive preparations for mass production of parts.Will share an orthopedic implant3D printingThe development path of service providers, as a one-stop shop for orthopedic implants3D printingThe service conducts a preliminary understanding.

Source: Lincotek Additive

One-stop service from design to sterilization

Lincotek is a contract manufacturer. The Lincotek Group includes four business areas: surface technology, medical devices, equipment, and additive manufacturing. Lincotek began to actively apply two types of powder bed melting in 20063D printingTechnology-Selective laser melting and electron beam melting. So far, more than 500,000 pieces have been manufactured using these additive manufacturing technologies.3D printingComponents. Lincotek is using additive manufacturing technology on a large scale and established a dedicated additive manufacturing department-Lincotek Additive in November 2019.

Lincotek combines its accumulated technology and experience in medical device manufacturing and additive manufacturing to provide orthopedic implants3D printingServe. Lincotek Medical Department provides one-stop services from product design to sterilization packaging for medical device manufacturers in the biomedical industry. The technologies used include3D printing, Surface treatment, plasma spray processing, physical vapor deposition (PVD) and titanium anodizing technology.

A study on the survival of contract manufacturers outside of medical devices mentioned that medical device OEMs such as Medtronic and Johnson & Johnson are working hard to reduce the number of their contract manufacturers in order to better conduct their business and obtain better benefits. Therefore, they are willing to Sign contracts with suppliers who can provide one-stop manufacturing services. One-stop service providers often have the ability to bring more value-added services to OEMs, such as product process design, assembly, and supply chain establishment.[1] Lincotek grafts one-stop additive manufacturing services on the basis of its traditional medical device manufacturing contract manufacturing services, which is more advantageous than starting from scratch.

Source: Lincotek Medical

After Lincotek established a dedicated additive manufacturing department, orthopedic implant additive manufacturing services became one of its business directions. Lincotek positions its additive manufacturing department as an additive manufacturing service solution provider, providing complete services for manufacturing companies that need to carry out additive manufacturing. Lincotek’s additive manufacturing service starts with product design at the source, and then includes material design, process design, rapid prototype verification, and after the successful development of new products, it can also provide product mass production services, as well as coating and precision after printing. Post-processing techniques such as processing.

Source: Lincotek Additive

Lincotek has two innovation centers in Europe, one of which focuses on the medical field and the other focuses on industrial applications. These innovation centers provide support for research and development.22 of them are installed inside the medical center3D printingEquipment, of which there are 6 equipment dedicated to research and development,3D printingMedical products include implants such as hip acetabular cups and intervertebral fusion cages. Lincotek runs different types of equipment to manufacture different surface finishes, details and production speeds to meet the target performance, characteristics and price.

Lincotek familiar3D printingMaterials include CpTi, Ti6Al4V, CoCrMo, 17-4 SS, Hastelloy X and IN939 Ni-based high-temperature alloys, high-temperature ceramics (in the development stage). In terms of production scale, Lincotek emphasizes its mass additive manufacturing capabilities. Lincotek stated that it is ready for mass production, scale-up and a complete and proven process chain, and it can provide medical treatment with low scrap rate and high cost-effectiveness. Device manufacturers provide additive manufacturing services, with the best scrap rate and OEE (overall equipment efficiency) of its class of products higher than 90%.

Lincotek has provided additive manufacturing mass production services through production bases in Italy, Switzerland, and the United States. In 2020, it will establish a production base in Wuxi, China. Wuxi’s additive manufacturing base may be related to Lincotek Medical Technology (Wuxi) Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Lincotek Group.

The above case mainly introduces the one-stop service built by Lincotek through hardware.Of course, in addition to hardware, 3D Science Valley believes that the importance of software will become more and more manifested.3D printingOne of the core competitiveness of service providers, and the investment of software among them needs to focus on the end-to-end overall solution, and the fragmented software needs to be integrated into the end-to-end overall solution platform. End-to-end platform software is like aorta, linking tool software, making fragmented data into data streams, users can have a seamless experience, quality can be traced, certification becomes simple and feasible, and craftsmanship can be replicated Sex becomes a reality.

Reference materials:

[1] Andrew Kinross, The U.S. Medical Device Outsourcing Market and the Survival of Contract Manufacturers.

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