Additive-manufacture for Design-led Efficient Patient Treatment - ADEPT

该项目将彻底改变患者特定植入物的市场，并将英国的专业知识置于该领域研发的最前沿。先进制造技术的应用，如增材制造（AM）在定制、特定患者设备和植入物生产中的应用，目前仅限于那些具有深度专业知识和相对较大预算的公司。这是由于了解和设计工艺所需的高水平技术能力，设计和核查的密集性质以及高生产成本。该项目旨在通过将设计师、工程师和医学专家的隐性知识构建为驱动生产能力和供应链的智能软件驱动服务来克服这些障碍。这将创造一种更具经济可行性的服务，为全球医疗保健市场带来更广泛的利益。

This project will revolutionise the market in patient specific implants and put UK expertise at the forefront of R&D in the sector. The application of advanced manufacturing technologies, such as Additive Manufacturing (AM) in the production of bespoke, patient-specific devices and implants is currently constrained to those with in depth expertise and relatively large budgets. This is due to the high level of technical competence required to understand and design for the processes, intensive nature of design and verification and high production costs. This project intends to overcome these barriers by building in the tacit knowledge of designers, engineers and medical specialists into an intelligent software-driven service that drives production capability and the supply chain. This will create a more economically viable service that will encourage much wider benefits to healthcare markets across the world.