So what you can see here is a video of a prosthetist fitting a below-knee or transtibial prosthesis. The digital manufacturing method would be to simply scan the limb, use a digital workflow, and create a custom 3D-printed device. This traditional manufacturing method uses plaster casting. It’s very labor intensive. It’s very messy and it ultimately creates more cost to the clinic because of the necessary materials.

Furthermore, it ends up ultimately costing the clinic more time because of the time that is used to fit the patients and cast them. This time could be used elsewhere. They could see more patients, resulting in more revenue for their clinic. And currently within the orthotics and prosthetics segment, our customers are challenged with many different, difficulties. They’re challenged with inconsistent quality or repeatability and the inability to get digital data from their patients to be captured. They also are using nonsustainable manufacturing workflows that cause a lot of material waste. The vast amounts of material being used and technically savvy technicians create a barrier to getting these products fabricated.

As a result, this created an issue during the pandemic actually where there were restraints on material shortages and there were also labor issues with getting these skilled fabrication technicians to do the work to create these devices. This unfortunately led to businesses being forced to go out of business, typically mom-and-pop type locations. This was because they were dependent on fitting devices to bring revenue into their clinics. Without the devices to fit their patients, they were unable to bill insurance and bring that revenue source in. This unfortunately caused a lot of mom-and-pop type businesses to go out of business. However, with HP’s multi jet fusion, we’re able to overcome a lot of these challenges with our product differentiation and our workflow simplifications, which result in very innovative and advanced medical devices.

When you compare traditional manufacturing methods with digital manufacturing methods, it’s obvious that we can improve it every step of the way. So this right here is simply a case study of custom foot orthotics. This is only one of the many applications that are currently out on the market within the healthcare and the orthotics and prosthetics segment. There are several others that we also partner with and work with daily. But, specifically, when it comes to custom foot orthotics, you can see it from the capture method when we compare it to traditional to digital manufacturing.

From the capture method, which is obtaining the patient’s anatomy, the device is fabricated. Traditionally, much like you saw in the prior video, they use plaster cast, which is a little bit mind-blowing to me in this day and age to use plaster cast due to it being labor intensive, messy, and has a lot of ancillary costs associated with it.

There are materials involved that you need to purchase and keep on hand. If we switch that over to a digital manufacturing method, we will be able to use digital scanning technology, which is fast, precise, and convenient. It typically takes maybe 1 to 2 minutes at the absolute most to capture that patient’s anatomy.

We move on to the design portion of the fitting process. Again, it’s a little bit amazing to me in today’s day and age. Customers who are using traditional methods are still using paper forms. Obviously, there’s a lot of room for human error on these forms and during the shipping process to ship the plaster cast with the form typically to a fabrication facility, there’s room for this form to be lost. And if that’s the case, you have to start from scratch.

However, with the digital manufacturing method, we’re going to use streamlined software. This is going to be digital. It’s going to be accurate and it’s going to be easy to use. Most importantly, that prescription is going to be saved within the software, so there are no concerns of it getting lost along the way. And when it comes to manufacturing, it goes without saying we have many more capabilities with 3D printing than the traditional method.

So with 3D printing, we can use lattice structures, which allow for a better breathable device, a better fitting device, and a more comfortable device for the patient. What’s important about that is it actually increases patient outcomes because they’re more prone to use the device daily, whereas if it’s not comfortable, they likely won’t which can impact their mobility. And when it comes to the final product, you can see here that we’re able to dispense thin lightweight orthotics versus the traditional bulky orthotics. These are not only going to be thin and lightweight but it’s important to note that they’re repeatable. This means if a patient loses a pair or wants a second pair of that same device, we can just simply click a button, print it, and send it out to them.

With the traditionally manufactured orthotics, these are typically done by hand, so they’re not repeatable. And if there’s turnover within that clinic or within that lab and that same technician is not working on that orthotic, there may be an issue with getting a duplicate and repeatable device. And this video here showcases the Arise orthotic solution. This is a solution that was developed in-house by HP. It created an easy end-to-end digital workflow for fitting custom functional photo orthotics out to clinicians. One of the best parts about this solution is it transformed the fitting process for custom orthotics.

So we’re no longer using a plaster cast like I just showed. You’re going to be using a digital workflow. What patients and clinicians loved about this is it changed their fitting experience. The traditional method typically takes around 30 minutes to take place. This goes from casting, completing the modifications, completing the prescription, and then getting that information to the lab.

This year with the Arise solution, it took only less than 5 minutes to do the same process. The other part about this is that clinicians can simply click a button to prescribe the orthotics and select those patient-specific modifications. That information is also saved within the database on the computer. This is a cloud-based software which means they can access those files anywhere. The best part about that is these orders can be placed anywhere they have Internet access, which means the patient doesn’t need to come into the clinic if they want a second pair of orthotics.

This case study, developed by HP, proved that a digital workflow enhances clinical efficiencies and gives patients better fitting and more innovative devices. And now I want to show you just a few of the other options out there on the market. So outside of foot orthotics, which we’ve already shown, we also do cranial helmets, which you can see here. We partner with a company called Invent Medical. They have a digital end-to-end workflow.

We also work with companies for cosmetic prosthetic covers, entire devices, sockets for prosthetics, bracing like scoliosis bracing, and upper limb prosthetics. Again, this is only a snapshot of the many, options that are currently on the market. So we’re continuing to work with other companies to create more and more capabilities. But outside of the orthotics and prosthetics industry, we’ve also partnered with many healthcare and medical device companies to offer solutions as you can see here. So anything like customized covers, surgical guides, internal mechanisms.

So this is a centrifuge rather than using a very complicated process with multiple parts, takes many screws, and many devices to put together. We can just 3D print it. When it comes to single-use instrumentation, we’ve partnered with companies like Stryker and anatomical models. So these anatomical models can be used in med school for educational purposes but also for surgery preparation as well. This video shows what our multi jet fusion 3D printers look like.

In this application, they’re printing custom eyewear. So what you don’t see is the initial process where there’s software that scans the patient’s face. You can use the front-facing camera of your iPhone. So a true depth camera to scan your face, get the anatomical information that is needed, use software to create the file, and then send it over to the HP multi jet fusion printers. And then right here, you can see that we’ve printed the devices, we clean them up, and then the clinician will be sent that device to later fit that patient.

And then finally, this is a snapshot of just the solutions that we currently have for multi jet fusion 3D printers and some of the applications and materials that we’re currently offering. What I’d like to do is please encourage you to swing by our booth right over here. We partner with Endeavor as well. Maybe if you’re not in the market today to purchase a multi jet fusion 3D printer, we can get you over to, our parts provider, Endeavor, who can help with getting you parts daily. But I appreciate you all for swinging by, and please swing over to the booth to learn more about these applications and others and, the features and benefits that we’re able to offer with a digital workflow, especially when compared to traditional manufacturing.

Thank you.