You configure the orthotic. We produce it.
Every zone, every density, every correction is yours to set. You validate the finished device on screen, and only then does it go to a partner lab running industrial SLS printers.
No printer to buy, no equipment to maintain, no minimum volume. It arrives at your clinic in 7 business days, finished and ready to fit.
Is this you?
- You already scan your patients, or you are ready to start.
- You do not want equipment, staff or a production process in your clinic.
- You want the device that arrives to be the one you prescribed.
The order form disappears. The device does not.
You stop describing the device and start building it.
An order form is a description, and a description has to be interpreted by someone else. The configurator is the device itself: zone by zone, density by density, correction by correction.
Nothing is produced until you approve it.
The finished device renders on screen before it goes anywhere. You look at it, change it if it is not right, and release it when it is.
Your overhead does not move.
No capital, no maintenance, no floor space, no minimum volume. The only thing that changes is where your orthotics come from and what you can do to them first.
Five steps. You own the first three.
- Capture You scan the patient iPhone, iPad, Structure Sensor or a foam box, in your own chair.
- Configure You configure the prescription Zone by zone in the configurator. Two to three minutes for a full device.
- Approve You approve it on screen The finished device renders before production. Nothing moves until you release it.
- Produce A partner lab produces it Industrial SLS printing, batch produced, finished and packed to your specification.
- Deliver It arrives at your clinic Seven business days, ready to fit at the patient's second appointment.
The first three steps are identical whichever door you choose. That is why moving to in-clinic production later changes your turnaround, not your workflow.
The part that usually gets lost is the part you keep.
Outsourcing normally costs you the distance between what you pictured and what comes back. Here the prescription is not written down and handed over, it is built by you and sent to production as a file. What you approved is what gets made.
- 7 days from release to delivery at your clinic
- 0 equipment to buy or maintain
- None minimum order volume
A capture method you probably already own, and a subscription.
- A capture method iPhone, iPad, Structure Sensor, a traditional scanner, or a foam box you digitise. If you scan today, you are ready.
- A Podform3D subscription The configurator, the archive of every device you have designed, and the order channel to the partner lab.
- Nothing else No printer, no material inventory, no technician, no floor space, no minimum commitment.
The three options
Printing in-house
- Who it is for: A clinic producing for the patients it already sees
- What you buy: Software, a printer, and material
- Who produces the device: Your own printer, in your clinic
- Turnaround to the patient: Hours. Often the same visit.
- Your time per pair: 2 to 3 minutes in the configurator
- What caps your volume: 5 pairs per 24 hours, per printer. Add a unit.
- Control over the device: What you configure is what gets built
- Where the margin goes: Stays in the practice
- How you start: A 14-day free trial
Producing for others
- Who it is for: A clinic or lab supplying clinics beyond its own
- What you buy: Software, printers, and accounts for the clinics you supply
- Who produces the device: Your own fleet, across one or more sites
- Turnaround to the patient: You set it, per account
- Your time per pair: None. Your client clinics configure their own.
- What caps your volume: Printers you add, not technicians you hire
- Control over the device: Each prescribing clinic controls its own device
- Where the margin goes: You price each account yourself
- How you start: A conversation about your volume
Outsourcing
- Who it is for: A clinic that wants 3D-printed orthotics without production in the building
- What you buy: Software, and production by the pair
- Who produces the device: A Podform3D partner lab
- Turnaround to the patient: 7 business days, and a second appointment
- Your time per pair: 2 to 3 minutes in the configurator
- What caps your volume: Nothing on your side. The partner lab absorbs it.
- Control over the device: What you configure is what gets built
- Where the margin goes: A share covers production for you
- How you start: A 14-day free trial
Start here. Move in-clinic when the volume says so.
Outsourcing is the fastest way to start, and it stays available for as long as you want it. Your designs, your patient records and your workflow carry over unchanged if you later add a printer.
Contact Dr. Antonin Berube at antonin@podform3d.com.