Industry 4.0 in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)

7 A Case Study of Additive Manufacturing in Prosthesis Development in Industry 4.0

M. C. Murugesh, R. Suresh, Ajith G. Joshi, and Priya Jadhav

DOI: 10.1201/9781003200857-7

Contents

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Prosthetic Legs

7.3 Treatment Timeline

7.4 General Prescription Guidelines

7.5 Literature Review

7.6 Raw Materials Used

7.7 Prosth esis by Additive Manufacturing over Conventional Methods

7.8 Fused Deposition Modelling

7.9 Case Study

7.9.1 Development of Specification for Prosthetic Limb

7.9.2 Finite Element Analysis of Pylon

7.10 Conclusions

References

7.1 Introduction

The potential of additive manufacturing (AM) lies in the flexibility of component design and customisation. In AM, computer-aided design (CAD) models are developed based on ...