3D Printing: A New Frontier in Healthcare

October 30, 2017 Uncategorized

Medtronic scientists and engineers ‘look beyond the apparent’ in pursuit of groundbreaking achievements.

3D printing isn’t really printing at all. The less-familiar term is additive manufacturing – building an object one very thin layer at a time – on a precision machine similar in size and shape to a printer.

Whatever you call it – 3D printing is opening a new frontier in healthcare.

“The rate of change of the technology is just mind boggling,” said Mark Bucheger, engineering director at Medtronic. “Each year the technology is improving to allow us to do more and more things.”

3D Printing: A New Frontier in Healthcare

Posted by Heather Adams

Recent Posts

TIME's Best Inventions of 2020: Masks That Do More (Breathe99)

Iowa State University, John Deere collaboration advances research in hybrid manufacturing

How 3D Printing is Empowering Creative Manufacturing at UMC

Introducing 3M’s New Periodic Table of Technology Platforms (includes Additive Manufacturing!)

New ownership works to grow Midwest Composite Technologies

Video: 3D-Printed Brackets Are Key to Automated Coolant Delivery for Lights-Out Machining

Polaris optimizes tooling for powersport vehicles using Stratasys F370

Avid Outdoorsman, Longtime Federal Fan, Gets an Extra Push

Ultra Machining Company: A Look at Additive Manufacturing in Minnesota

Emerson Selected as 'Industrial IoT Company of the Year' for Second Consecutive Year