This is a recommendation for investment in Project Andiamo, a London based company that creates custom orthotics that helps kids with disabilities. The company aims at helping these kids with life changing improvement to posture & mobility using the emerging 3D printing technology.
What make this 3D printed orthotics different from the traditional braces are, its accuracy and the time it takes to make a brace. The drawbacks however are:
1) The technical challenges associated with a introducing a new technology like 3D printing to the medical field.
2) Market acceptance.
The company however, aims to dominate the UK market in 5 years and has plans for global dominance by 2024.
Started in Jan 2013 by Naveed Parvez and his wife Samiya, Andiamo was inspired by their personal experience with their son Diago who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and was also a quadriplegic. Diago required extensive treatment to help with his posture and this included a multitude of braces, splints and gators. His small body needed to sit in a plaster that was awkward and cold. Thirteen weeks later, that brace would finally be ready, designed to give him some comfort, but was already a bad fit as the child had grown. The couple then decided to explore the potential of 3D printed scans and orthotics and with the death of their child in 2012; they launched Andiamo and had support from NHS –the strategic health authority in England, EMC, Kingston …show more content…
• Delivered within 48 hours thus reducing wait time and the discomfort.
In the traditional process, the measurement of the child takes 1 hour, then 2-3 weeks is taken to engineer the brace and it takes up to 3 months to deliver the brace. Andiamo on the other hand takes 1 minute to 3D scan the measurements of the child, 48 hours to 3D print the brace and has a delivery period of 48 hours with provisions for alteration of braces as the child
What make this 3D printed orthotics different from the traditional braces are, its accuracy and the time it takes to make a brace. The drawbacks however are:
1) The technical challenges associated with a introducing a new technology like 3D printing to the medical field.
2) Market acceptance.
The company however, aims to dominate the UK market in 5 years and has plans for global dominance by 2024.
Started in Jan 2013 by Naveed Parvez and his wife Samiya, Andiamo was inspired by their personal experience with their son Diago who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and was also a quadriplegic. Diago required extensive treatment to help with his posture and this included a multitude of braces, splints and gators. His small body needed to sit in a plaster that was awkward and cold. Thirteen weeks later, that brace would finally be ready, designed to give him some comfort, but was already a bad fit as the child had grown. The couple then decided to explore the potential of 3D printed scans and orthotics and with the death of their child in 2012; they launched Andiamo and had support from NHS –the strategic health authority in England, EMC, Kingston …show more content…
• Delivered within 48 hours thus reducing wait time and the discomfort.
In the traditional process, the measurement of the child takes 1 hour, then 2-3 weeks is taken to engineer the brace and it takes up to 3 months to deliver the brace. Andiamo on the other hand takes 1 minute to 3D scan the measurements of the child, 48 hours to 3D print the brace and has a delivery period of 48 hours with provisions for alteration of braces as the child