High Value Manufacturing – Bártolo et al. (Eds)
© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00137-4
Printing intervertebral implants with a low-cost Additive
Manufacturing machine
L. Serenó, Ll. Ramon & J. Ciurana
Product, Process, and Production Engineering Research Group (GREP), University of Girona, Spain
ABSTRACT: Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies may offer a viable, simple and economic alterna-
tive to fabricate scaffolds. AM allows controlling efficiently the architecture of the scaffolds, which is a major
concern and a challenge. However, commercially available AM machines are still very expensive and inflexible,
limiting the applications and possibilities to analyze the manufacturing process.This work focuses on evaluating ...