Full paper: http://go.cyient.com/additivemfg There is an increasing demand for personalized solutions tailored to patient’s individual characteristics, including their anatomical features. In keeping with this trend, personalized knee systems have gained popularity lately. Designed and customized to fit individual’s natural size and shape, these implants reduce operative as well as recovery time. However, manufactures face challenges in meeting the growing and complex requirements of personalized implants using conventional methods of manufacturing. Additive manufacturing is a great alternative to customizing knee implants and helps overcome the challenges of traditional manufacturing methods. Due to its unique characteristics, it is best suited for producing applications that demand flexibility and quick development cycles, products belonging to high-value markets, as well as complex components. It has witnessed several advancements such as improved system process control, enhanced speed, cost effectiveness, greater accuracy and reliability, along with the introduction of better materials.

1. Additive
Manufacturing
for Personalized
Knee Systems
Driving better outcomes for patients
as well as healthcare providers
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2. Advantages of Personalized Knee SystemsCYIENT©2014CONFIDENTIAL14/01/2015
Personalized knee systems are built on the premise that each patient is unique. They
are preferred over standardized systems due to the advantages they offer all the
stakeholders:
- Patient throughput
- Alignment
Improve
- Operative and recovery time
- Risk of fat embolism and intra-operative
bleeding due to minimal bone removal
- Tissue loss
- Post operative pain
- Incidence of infection
- Costs
Reduce

3. Moving Beyond Conventional Manufacturing ProcessesCYIENT©2014CONFIDENTIAL14/01/2015
• Traditional manufacturing methods like CNC
machining, plastic moulding, and casting
involve tool design and development, and
manufacturing trials.
• The result - long lead time.
• Manufacturers are therefore adopting
Additive Manufacturing to produce high
quality customized knee implants .
• The process of building components using 3D
design data, by adding material to previously
built areas in layers, as opposed to traditional
methods such as subtractive manufacturing.
• Applied in different areas including
prototyping, tooling, direct part production,
and repair of damaged parts.

4. Accelerate Time-to-Market with
Additive Manufacturing
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• Additive Manufacturing eliminates tooling and the need for large scale investments, thus providing value
addition.
• The bottom line – greater patient satisfaction.
Multi Dimensional Benefits of Additive Manufacturing
Design
freedom
Reduced costs
Precision in
surgery
Reduced
energy
consumption
Reduced waste
generation

5. The Cyient Support for Embracing
Additive Manufacturing
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We offer:
• Comprehensive services, solutions and capabilities that enable you to launch personalized knee systems
globally
• Expertise in design and development of medical devices, and supply chain requirements management
• Understanding of the risks involved in leveraging Additive Manufacturing
• Knowledge of the market and the needs of patients
Partner with Cyient to deliver high quality personalized knee replacement solutions
using additive manufacturing.

6. Enabling You to Deliver Better Outcomes for All StakeholdersCYIENT©2014CONFIDENTIAL14/01/2015
About Cyient
Cyient provides leading-edge engineering solutions including product development
and lifecycle support, process, network and content engineering to major
organizations worldwide. Our clients span multiple
industries such as Aerospace, Consumer, Energy, Medical, Oil and Gas, Mining, Heavy
Equipment, HiTech, Transportation, Telecom and Utilities and include 26 ‘Fortune
500’ organizations.
Our Medical business unit provides engineering services to medical
device manufacturers and healthcare providers across various therapy segments which
include orthopedics and spinal, cardiology, imaging and
diagnostics, hospital and laboratory equipment, patient monitoring and home
healthcare. We are ISO 13485 certified engineering center and our
team has expertise in Medical Device Regulations of US FDA, European Commission
and CFDA.
For more information about Cyient, please visit cyient.com
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7. Thank youCYIENT©2014CONFIDENTIAL14/01/2015
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