TY - CONF

T1 - Functional analysis for the development of bio-medical products

AU - Lupeanu, Mihaela

AU - Neagu, Corneliu

AU - Opran, Constantin

AU - Rennie, Allan

PY - 2012/10

Y1 - 2012/10

N2 - The engineer nowadays needs to possess knowledge that will enable the design of more diverse and cheaper products, but of higher quality, which reach the market faster, and do not pollute. These requirements are the effect of globalization, competition, reduction of the life-cycle of a product, managing the environmental issues, increasing computing power related to communication networks etc. The present paper proposes research applying technical functional analysis for the development of a surgical device manufactured from biocompatible silicone rubber. The vacuum surgical device is a treatment instrument for skin ulcers resistant to antibiotics and difficult to treat because of other connected diseases. The product is fabricated by open mould casting in a selective laser sintered (additive manufactured) mould, obtained after performing functional analysis. Functional analysis is applied to establish the optimum mould concept and the technological process of manufacturing it. Additive manufacturing is used for both the intermediary functional prototype production of the mould and the zero series mould.

AB - The engineer nowadays needs to possess knowledge that will enable the design of more diverse and cheaper products, but of higher quality, which reach the market faster, and do not pollute. These requirements are the effect of globalization, competition, reduction of the life-cycle of a product, managing the environmental issues, increasing computing power related to communication networks etc. The present paper proposes research applying technical functional analysis for the development of a surgical device manufactured from biocompatible silicone rubber. The vacuum surgical device is a treatment instrument for skin ulcers resistant to antibiotics and difficult to treat because of other connected diseases. The product is fabricated by open mould casting in a selective laser sintered (additive manufactured) mould, obtained after performing functional analysis. Functional analysis is applied to establish the optimum mould concept and the technological process of manufacturing it. Additive manufacturing is used for both the intermediary functional prototype production of the mould and the zero series mould.

KW - Additive Manufacturing

KW - Life-Cycle Analysis

KW - bio-compatability

KW - functional analysis

M3 - Conference paper

SP - 330

EP - 336

T2 - Advanced Composite Materials Engineering (COMAT2012)

Y2 - 18 October 2012 through 20 October 2012

ER -