Medical Polymer 3D Printing - Ensuring Consistency, Compliance & Market Readiness

Navigating Qualification in Global Manufacturing of Medical Polymer 3D Printing

Quality assurance (qualification) is critical to scaling and validating your additive manufacturing (AM) production, especially when it comes to highly-regulated industries like the medical field. Qualifying your part production, or in other words, proving the repeatability and standardization, is a challenging step to tackle. However, the right partners can accelerate and even differentiate your product.   

3DPX, an EOS contract manufacturer and leading polymer service provider, has the medical expertise to ensure customer success across several body-contact products including eyewear, intraoral, and surgical tools and guides. Together with Prime Path Medtech and EOS Additive Minds, 3DPX provides consultation and guidance to companies developing and qualifying AM parts. 3D-Side, a Belgium-based company focusing on patient-specific surgical instruments, partnered with 3DPX for a successful global expansion. 

Learning Objectives:

• Lifecycles and collaborative partnerships of medical device production
• How contract manufacturers approach qualification and production of body-contact applications
• Challenges vs end-use benefits of AM patient-specific instruments
• How to approach the post-processing of a 3D printed part, considering these steps in the design phase and ensuring they are carried out efficiently
• How medical applications are qualified and validated when additively manufactured

Speakers: EOS Business Development Manager Dr. Dave Krzeminski, 3DPX CEO Chris Martinez, Prime Path Medtech CEO Bill Jacqmein, and International Business Developer of 3D-Side Robin Verheyen