Device Design & Development

NuVasive Taps AM Ecosystem to Optimize Spine Implant Technology
Empowering the Medical Device Industry

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 (AM) to help them develop innovative medical devices and surgical instruments. 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.

Nuvasive Customer Story

Customer-driven Solutions for Implants and Instrumentation

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.

Device manufacturers choose 3D Systems to help design and develop implants and instruments such as:
Interbody fusion cages

Hip cups

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.

Application Innovation Group

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.

Contract Manufacturing for Implants and Instrumentation

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

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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 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.

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Prosperos Research Project

3D Systems is proud to take part in the European Union funded research project in "smart" 3D printed implants for repair of large bone defects.

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TIES-TEST - Fast Track to Innovation

3D Systems is proud to participate in the EU funded Horizon 2020 Fast Track to Innovation project to deliver the Optimization & Clinical Testing of Transcutaneous Implant Evacuation System (TIES).

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