This has led to additive manufactured products that are cheap, customizable, and quickly produced. DfAM encourages clinicians to explore new designs that tap the unique capabilities of additive manufacturing (AM).

These parameters were included in a prototype of the automated design and production system developed by the authors, and prostheses for several other patients were manufactured.ĭesign for additive manufacturing (DfAM) has allowed for a higher degree of individual customization of devices in the prosthetic and orthotic (P&O) industry. As a result, recommendations of materials and process parameters were determined. The results are promising, as most of the obtained products fulfil the strength criteria, although not all of them meet the fitting and use comfort criteria.

This paper presents the methodology of the design, the plan of the experiments and the obtained results in terms of process stability, fit and assessment by patient, as well as strength of the obtained sockets and their measured surface roughness.

To find a reliable set of parameters for cheap and stable manufacturing of usable prostheses using 3D printers, realizing the fused deposition modeling (FDM) process, sets of sockets were manufactured with various process parameters. Two distinct socket designs with various mounting systems were prepared. The aim of this work was to compare sockets made of two different materials-rigid PLA and elastic TPE. This paper presents the results of experiments conducted on a batch of additively manufactured customized prosthetic sockets for upper limbs, made of thermoplastics and designed automatically on the basis of a 3D-scanned limb of a 3-year-old patient.

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