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Direct Digital Manufacturing @ Melotte
” 20,000th digital dental partial frame”
“Internationalization based on sustainable process development
and the impact on local employment”.
Melotte, Industrieweg 2019, B-3520 ZONHOVEN
Mario Fleurinck, CEO Melotte
Oktober, 2011
Direct Digital Manufacturing @ Melotte
“It is our mission to translate analogue material
transformation processes into sustainable digital material
growth (Additive Manufacturing) using a
minimum of raw materials and energy with focus on maximal
added value creation.”
“Significant, untapped opportunities still exist for the metal manufacturing sector to
reduce energy costs and improve their competitiveness”
What’s Direct Digital Manufacturing?
High-end Finishing
Free-form Finishing (STL based)
High-end Finishing (µ-level)
Additive ManufacturingSelective Laser Melting Direct Metal Deposition
Web based Data Acquisition3D Solids / Optical Scan data / Point
Clouds
MRI / CT Data / Cone Beam
Partial Frame Project (Market 2010, 5 Million)Integrated digital design & manufacturing
Key Product Acceptation Criteria:“Perfect” alignment with Patient’s basic physiognomyNear-Net-shape “Fit” with Patient’s soft Palatal (upper jaw) “Weight” versus “Strength” ratio (in balance with natural teeth)Easy to “maintain”Maximum “bite force” even with mainstream dental solution High Gloss and “Mirror effect” finish“Elegant” and “discrete”, no “phonetic” changes“Short turnaround”, Tooth extraction => new prosthetics.
PERFECT FIT – SHORT TURNAROUND – EASY TO
MAINTAIN – ESTHETIC - DISCRETE
Partial Frame ProjectIntegrated digital design & manufacturing
Step 2, analogue Process, 14 steps and about 20 different consumables used
Over the past 10 years, China has become the largest dental manufacturing marketplace in the world. China claims 40% “ownership” of “dental” materials!
Yi Chan, Advisory Board Member CDG.
Partial Frame ProjectAging population in the BRIC countries……What about us?
“How to manage our supply chain IN CASE the local demand due to aging population is more important than the financial upside?”
“Profit versus local needs”
Partial Frame ProjectAging population in … Europe, US and Japan....And Now?
Over the period 2010 -2025 only 1 dental
technician is available for replacing 8 retiring
analogue dental technicians while
annual demand grows 4,8 %!
1 FTE for 8?
Partial Frame ProjectHow to solve this?
TRANFORMATIVE CHANGE
DIGITALIZATION
LIMITED RESOURCES
GROWING NEEDS
Partial Frame ProjectIntegrated digital design & manufacturing
Step 2, digital Process, 3 steps and NO consumables used
Peer
Sector 1Sector 2
Partial Frame Project (Near Shore)Integrated digital design & manufacturing
Project Rollout & MILESTONES:
06/09 Selection preferred partner (2nd largest Belgian dental lab Vanderbeken Oostende)07/09 Exclusive Development contract08/09 Integration Design software09/09 First prototype ready11/09 Start batch production in “next day delivery” mode12/09 Ramp up to 15 partials per day01/10 Start-up INNODEMA (Digital dental design office located in Ostend)
2010 industrialization in closed market > 60 partials per day
January 2011 Upscale additional dental labs
- - - 03/11 Delivery 10,000th partial frame. - - -
We have a dream……..
Since 2004, Melotte has been actively exploring the Near-to-Net-Shape Manufacturing Technologies. Direct Digital Manufacturing is part of the company’s strategic diversification and is considered an innovative complement to the existing high-precision production apparatus. From the start, Melotte has developed an international network; now the company already has some impressive product references. Melotte differentiates itself with its complete offer, as well as with NTNM technologies, which combine Selective Laser Melting, Direct Metal Deposition and Electron Beam Melting with high-end Component Finishing Technologies. Related supporting services such as reverse engineering and modelling, FEA, laser scanning, optical measurement and thermo-dynamic analyses complete the offer. Melotte has completed many Direct Digital Manufacturing projects and is considered as one of the most active companies in the Metal DDM market. The company also has specific expertise in the field of NTNM (Magnesium Moulding) and DDM production technologies in metals, their specialties including Titanium, Inconell, Cobalt Chrome, Ceramic materials, Tool steel and Aluminium. All this is aimed at an extremely diversified international market.
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Industrieweg 2019
B-3520 ZONHOVEN
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www.Melotte.be
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