DEVELOPMENT OF ORTHOPEDIC DEVICE USING ADVANCE TECHNOLOGY

V današnjem času se vse pogosteje izdelujejo izdelki, ki so namenjeni samo določeni osebi. Medicina je eno od področij, kjer so potrebe po individualnih izdelkih še posebej izrazite. Pri izdelavi takšnih izdelkov si največkrat pomagamo s tehnikami s področja sodobnih tehnologij. V diplomskem delu je predstavljen model razvoja ortopedskega pripomočka z uporabo naprednih tehnologij in kot take smo upoštevali tehnologijo brizganja plastičnih mas in selektivnega laserskega sintranja za izdelavo malo serijskih izdelkov. Oba postopka sta v diplomskem delu podrobneje predstavljena tako z vidika časovne analize in stroškovne kalkulacije, ki prikazuje mejo ustreznosti izdelovalnega postopka glede na velikost serije našega izdelka. Rezultat našega dela prikazuje, da uporabnost postopka napredne tehnologije selektivnega laserskega sintranja narašča z zahtevnostjo izdelka in hkrati pada s povečevanjem števila izdelkov v seriji.Nowadays custom made products are very often demanded. Medicine is one of the fields where individualized products are much desired or even crucial. Production of custom made products requires some special, modern technology. In the diploma thesis, we present a model of developing an orthopedic support device by means of advanced technologies, i.e. the technologies of plastic injection molding and selective laser sintering used to make products on a small scale. The thesis contains a detailed presentation of both procedures, both in terms of a time-based analysis as well as cost calculation of our product which shows the suitability limit of the manufacturing process with regard to the scale of our product\u27s batch. According to the results of our work, the applicability of the advanced selective laser sintering technology procedure increases with the complexity of the product and, at the same time, decreases with the rising number of products in the batch