INNOVATION Health and wellbeing award for collaboration
Additive-manufacture for Design-led Efficient Patient Treatment (ADEPT), a project that enables the widespread use of 3D printing to produce bespoke maxillofacial implants, won the Health and Wellbeing category at The Engineer magazine’s Collaborate to Innovate Awards. The collaborative project draws on the academic and industrial expertise of several UK partners, including global engineering and scientific technology company Renishaw. Renishaw and partners presented the winning project alongside the other category winners at the Collaborate to Innovate Conference, held on 17 November at the Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry, UK. Expert judges selected the winning projects based on innovation, collaboration and potential to influence their field by solving industry problems. The ADEPT project stood out because of its ability to revolutionise the way design and additive manufacturing are used in bespoke implant production by creating a new software product, which increases the level of automation in implant design. Four UK partners have collaborated on the project; engineering company Renishaw, industry partner LPW Technology, a leader
in the application of computer-aided technologies (CAT) in maxillofacial surgery, the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board and academic partner PDR, located within Cardiff Metropolitan University, which led the project research. ADEPT is a three-year project funded by Innovate UK and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. “This project aims to transform the patient specific cranial-maxillofacial implants market by overcoming the barriers
of cost and efficiency in bespoke implants,” explained Bryan Austin, director and general manager of the medical dental products division at Renishaw and ADEPT chairman. “The work is now in the latest stage of user trials. This collaboration strengthens UK expertise in innovative manufacturing for cranio-maxillofacial surgery and we hope to achieve wider benefits through quality of care, efficiency and accessibility of advanced techniques.”
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