Special: Rapid Prototyping

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Artificial bones, teeth and entire organs made by quickly working machines. This is partly still visionary but researchers working upon realising these ideas with a special process.

Rapid Prototyping finds its way into medical technology. The actual state of affairs is presented in COMPAMED.de's Special - with an extensive report and expert-interview.

Layer upon layer – this is the central feature of a process called rapid prototyping (RP). A technique originally used by the automobile industry for designing cars quickly and that is being applies more and more in medical technology. Hearing aids produced with RP are already standard, bone implants are in development.
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Andrej Grzesiak is spokesman of this alliance of Fraunhofer institutes called Rapid Prototyping - a platform for the core competences of these nine institutes combining the areas engineering, materials, technologies and quality. COMPAMED.de spoke with the expert about potentials of rapid prototyping in medical technology and about organs coming out of the printer.
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