Authorised Partner
Medical Devices
Transforming healthcare with additive manufacturing solutions
We provide industry-leading surgical planning, implants, instrumentation, and medical education solutions to help medical device manufacturers and healthcare providers accelerate innovation, and transform healthcare
3M+
Medical Devices Manufactured
400K+
Patient-Specific Cases & Devices Delivered
100+
FDA Cleared & CE Marked Devices Supported
Personalized Healthcare Solutions
3D Systems partners with device manufacturers and healthcare providers to transform surgical outcomes for both patients and surgeons. We create custom solutions that help translate virtual surgery into the OR with the goal of improving outcomes and the overall patient experience. Our multifaceted offerings include advanced design and planning software, expert planning services and a full range of custom implants and instrumentation.
We combine refined digital workflows with best-in-class 3D printers and materials to deliver patient-specific solutions that routinely result in enhanced patient outcomes. With more than 10 years of experience in virtual surgical planning, 3D Systems has supported more than 200,000 patient-specific cases for the craniomaxillofacial and orthopaedic specialties.
Clinical teams worldwide combine our patient-specific instruments with off-the-shelf as well as patient-specific implants to control costs, reduce procedure time and personalize outcomes. We partner with medical device manufacturers to offer VSP® procedural planning solutions that support orthopedic, orthagnathic and radiotherapy procedures.
3D Systems helped establish this industry segment nearly 30 years ago. Our consultative services, printers, software and materials are used to create patient-specific anatomic models that help surgeons better visualize and plan procedures.
Medical device manufacturers need innovative ways to bring high-quality, reliable products to market faster. Our customers trust our unparalleled capabilities and experience in additive manufacturing to help them develop innovative medical devices and instrumentation. We also collaborate with them to determine the best approach to commercialization, either through contract manufacturing support from our two device manufacturing facilities or via technology transfer to our customer.
Whether you are representing an industry leader or an innovative startup, 3D Systems can help you develop groundbreaking precision healthcare applications and medical technologies. Our experience with regulatory and compliance processes enables us to help our customers bring revolutionary 3D printed medical devices to market faster than ever before.
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Interbody fusion cages
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Hip cups
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Osteotomy guides
In fact, our development team is continuously innovating our printers, software, and processes to make the manufacture and commercialization of surgical implants and instruments, quicker and more cost effective. The ProX® DMP 350 and 500 platforms are setting the benchmark in material properties and surface resolution for metal parts. Our 3DXpert™ software helps you design devices specifically for AM. It even provides the ability to create complex porous structures, which typically could not be created through traditional subtractive manufacturing.
Our Application Innovation Group (AIG) is a team of engineers, designers, and technicians who live and breathe AM. We work closely with medical device manufacturers, collaborating with them from concept to commercialization of 3D printed implants and instruments within a variety of surgical specialties.
Together we’ll identify your needs, work with you to optimize your designs, and define manufacturing flow to achieve your application's requirements. Then, we’ll move you toward certification and validation while assisting with obtaining regulatory clearances, completing technology transfer, and implementing AM production on-site or within one of our facilities.
With experience manufacturing over two million medical devices, beginning with the very first FDA-cleared 3D printed titanium implant, 3D Systems has world-class, FDA-registered, ISO 13485-certified facilities. These advanced, highly-productive facilities—located in both North America and Europe—have become a preferred choice among medical device manufacturers.
Additive manufactured implants and surgical instruments exhibit excellent mechanical properties enabling accelerated product development and lower inventory costs compared to traditional subtractive manufacturing and its long lead times. Moreover, validated parameter sets enable printing of metallic parts that meet ASTM standards for mechanical properties and chemical composition. The 3D printing process also yields many cost-effective implant types and is fully compatible with traditional (CNC) manufacturing.
3D Systems is the trusted partner of top medical device OEM’s to manufacture their implants and instruments for spine, orthopaedic, extremity, craniomaxiofacial applications and more. Contact us to start your next project.
Interbody fusion device printed on the DMP Flex 350 in LaserForm Ti Gr23
Artificial disk end plate printed on the DMP Flex 350 in LaserForm Ti Gr23
Lateral spinal cage printed on the DMP Flex 350 in LaserForm Ti Gr23
Re-usable surgical instrument printed on the DMP Flex 350 in LaserForm 17-4 PH
Single-use disposable surgical instruments printed in DuraForm PA
Acetabular cup printed on the DMP Flex 350 in LaserForm Ti Gr23
3D Printing Solutions at the Point-of-Care
The ability to print patient-specific instruments and devices on demand and on-site is revolutionizing healthcare. By bringing 3D printing and procedural planning technologies to the point-of-care, healthcare providers are improving outcomes1, 2, increasing efficiency4, and lowering the cost of care5. Additionally, hospital operations are discovering that additive manufacturing can help fill supply chain gaps, enabling the production of needed medical supplies on demand.
Craniomaxillofacial, orthopaedics and radiation oncology are just a few of the specialties in which 3D printing at the point-of-care can expedite patient-specific procedures. Applications include:
- Individualized cranial plates or orbital plates
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Cutting guides for corrective osteotomy or tumor resection
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Trial radiolucent bone plates
- Patient-matched bolus for radiotherapy targeting
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Anatomic models for patient education and surgical planning
Benefits of 3D Printing at the Point-of-Care
Increased accuracy
Reduced procedure time
Improved patient communication
Better inventory control
Lower costs
Applications for point-of-care 3D printing extend across the health system to enable:
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Advanced visualization to diagnose disease and plan surgical intervention
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Production of radiotherapy materials that contour to patient anatomy to precisely target tumors
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Design and printing of anatomic models for patient education
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Data-driven patient-specific treatment planning and device design
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Bioprinting of regenerative, live cellular, and bioabsorbable structures
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On-demand printing of personal protective equipment and diagnostic tools
Improve the Patient Experience
Patient-specific devices can help increase procedural safety, reduce length of stay and improve patient recovery. Plus, with the ability to 3D print full-color anatomic models for pre-operative surgical planning and diagnostic purposes, surgeons can review the surgical approach with patients and their families.
On-Demand Access to Essential Medical Supplies
Manufacturing your own devices eliminates production, processing, and supply chain overhead. It enables just-in-time inventory control, which can in turn, reduce operational costs. For example, you can 3D print surgical instruments like scalpel handles, forceps, retractors, hemostats, medical clamps, and needle drivers—often in less than a day.
Overcoming Roadblocks to Integrating Point-of-Care 3D Printing
The benefits of incorporating 3D printing capabilities on-site at your health system are clear, but successful adoption of these technologies and services is dependent upon addressing cost, quality, and compliance concerns. 3D Systems can help you navigate the process of implementation with our 360 degree approach to healthcare additive manufacturing. We offer a full spectrum of technologies and services to help you:
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Deploy the right mix of technologies needed to meet your organization’s objectives
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Decide whether you should outsource or integrate on-site manufacturing
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Establish workflows and protocols for device design and manufacturing
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Build quality management programs to meet regulatory and safety requirements
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Set up control processes to ensure auditable traceability and documentation
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Provide ongoing staff education, procedural planning support and consulting services as needed
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Monitor operational, production and resource expenses to accurately assess expected cost savings
Flexible Solutions from Outsourcing to Full Integration
3D Systems can help you structure your point-of-care 3D printing center by providing the right combination of equipment, software, and services through three different models.
Managed Services
We provide all the technology and staff to create a 3D printing center at your facility, and the center is dedicated to serving your needs.
Collaborative Solutions
You own the center and technologies, and we provide a team of experts to operate the center and expedite your prototype-to-print process.
Center of Excellence
We help you fully integrate the technologies, processes, and teams you need to independently operate your center, and provide training, support, and contract manufacturing services as needed.
In over 30 years in healthcare, we have collaborated with manufacturers and surgeons in the orthopaedic and craniomaxillofacial fields to develop innovative implants and instrumentation, patient-specific surgical plans and devices, anatomic models and more. It is through this ongoing communication with leaders in these specialties that we have amassed knowledge needed to become a trusted resource for designing and producing high quality, reliable solutions from head to toe.
Leveraging our experience in orthopaedic and orthognathic device design, our team has also devised applications for gastroenterology, cardiothoracic surgery, prosthetics and radiotherapy. Discover more about selected specialties below:
Combining expertise in medical imaging, surgical simulation, and 3D printing, VSP provides pre-surgical planning and accurate, 3D printed, patient specific models and instrumentation.
Developed to guide complex orthopaedic procedures, VSP Orthopaedics provides pre-surgical planning, and patient-matched, sterilizable surgical instruments.
For foot and ankle applications, 3D Systmes works with medical device companies to develop VSP surgical planning solutions to compliment off-the-shelf implants.
To help optimize radiotherapy targeting, VSP bolus is a flexible, 3D-printed, patient-specific solution, which includes a complete workflow. No equipment or software is needed.
Proven Materials for Healthcare Applications
The materials used for personalized healthcare solutions have gone through extensive quality and regulatory testing in order to ensure they meet the needs of 3D Systems healthcare solutions team and our healthcare customers. Learn more about biocompatible materials that can be sterilized and used to guide osteotomies as well as non-sterilizable materials for pre-surgical planning and education.
Products for Personalized Healthcare Solutions & Medical Specialties
DICOM to Print
Advanced Visualisation Software
The only extrusion platform that features an integrated clean room and is validated by leading medical device manufacturers and hospitals worldwide.
Industrial-scale, process controlled additive manufacturing solution for selective laser sintering
Figure 4 Standalone
Ultra-fast and affordable for same day prototyping and low-volume production
