Selective Laser Sintering for Rapid Prototyping and PRe-Production of MEdical Devices

摘要

The driving issue of cost containment, powerful purchasing organisations and the ensuing fiercely copetitive medical device marketplace has resulted in the need to design medical devices with fewer changes thus speeding the design cycle and obtaining product revenues quickly. A six month delay in introduction can mean a drop in the device's life cycle revenues of as much as 33