Pic: An EOS additive manufacturing machine Rambam Health Car Campus,
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PTC have announced a new collaboration to establish a Digital Implant Engineering Centre at Rambam in Haifa, Israel.
The partnership brings together clinical expertise, industrial 3D printing technology and PTC’s advanced Creo computer-aided design (CAD) solution to enhance personalised care and improve patient outcomes by integrating advanced 3D-CAD design, validation, manufacturing, and quality within a unified framework.
Patient-specific implants have been shown to provide better anatomical fit and surgical accuracy.
Producing implants at point of care improves collaboration between surgeons and developers, reduces reliance on external suppliers and speeds up patient treatment.
This approach also shortens procedures and recovery times, helps maintain high quality standards and assists meeting regulatory requirements for safety and effectiveness.
“Personalised care represents the future of medicine, and Rambam is establishing a significant benchmark with its dedicated in-house centre,” said Dr Michal Mekel, director general and CEO at Rambam Health Care Campus.
“This initiative supports us in developing patient-specific care that emphasises innovation, clinical value, and operational excellence.”
The initiative represents a significant move toward digitally integrated, clinically driven solutions for complex, customised treatments.
By combining clinical expertise, engineering knowledge, structured processes, and advanced additive manufacturing, the partners aim to create a system that enables patient-specific innovation.
This framework could help major hospitals around the world access tailored implant solutions, leading to faster and better patient care.
“Point-of-care innovation in healthcare depends on integrating advanced industrial-grade additive manufacturing with validated hospital workflows. Our open software structure enables such scan-to-print workflows,” said Nikolai Zaepernick, CSO of EOS.
“We view this as a vital step toward a repeatable, highly responsive and digitally connected model for patient-specific care.”
Dr Ronen Ben-Horin, vice president technology at PTC, concluded: “Cutting-edge personalised implants require a connected digital foundation that ties together clinical need, design, manufacturability and workflow discipline.
“The Digital Engineering Centre at Rambam demonstrates how intelligent digital engineering drives innovation. We see this development as a breakthrough for the healthcare industry and are proud our technology will play a central role.”
PTC enables industrial and manufacturing companies to digitally transform how they engineer, manufacture, and service the physical products that the world relies on.
The company employs over 7,000 people, including a location in London, and supports more than 30,000 customers globally.