LightForce Orthodontics Brings to Market Fully-Custom Dental Braces
公司规模
SME
地区
- America
国家
- United States
产品
- nTopology
- nTopCL
技术栈
- Design Automation
- 3D Printing
- CAD Software
实施规模
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
- Productivity Improvements
- Customer Satisfaction
- Digital Expertise
技术
- 功能应用 - 产品生命周期管理系统 (PLM)
- 分析与建模 - Generative AI
适用行业
- 医疗保健和医院
适用功能
- 产品研发
- 质量保证
服务
- 软件设计与工程服务
- 培训
- 系统集成
关于客户
LightForce Orthodontics is a design and manufacturing company specializing in dental devices, founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2015. Their mission is to revolutionize dentistry with their patient-specific braces. LightForce offers an online portal where orthodontists can upload 3D scans of patients’ mouths to determine the position of each individual bracket of a wire brace. The company generates custom designs for the brackets and installation trays, 3D prints all components, and ships them to clinics for application. LightForce aims to improve patient outcomes, reduce installation time, and increase comfort with their innovative dental solutions.
挑战
LightForce Orthodontics faced a significant challenge in scaling their operations due to the time-consuming design process of their patient-specific dental braces. The legacy CAD software they were using lacked the ability to track the progress of the multistep design workflow, making it difficult to repeat workflows quickly and error-free. This bottleneck in the design step was preventing LightForce from expanding their business and meeting the growing demand for their custom dental devices. Additionally, training new employees on the advanced software was proving to be tricky, tedious, and time-consuming, further hindering their ability to scale efficiently.
解决方案
To address the design bottleneck, LightForce Orthodontics leveraged the design automation capabilities of nTopology. By shifting from their legacy CAD software to nTopology, they gained visibility into each step of the design process, allowing users to repeat workflows quickly and error-free. This transition reduced the manual design time for patient-specific braces from 10 hours to 3 hours. To further reduce design time, LightForce utilized nTopCL, nTopology’s Command Line Interface, to automate the entire design workflow programmatically using scripts, bringing the total design time down to just 10 minutes. Additionally, nTopology’s intuitive and prescriptive nature made it easier to onboard and train new employees, enabling inexperienced team members to swiftly pick up the software and use it to its full potential. The reusable workflows allowed any technician to execute a process designed by an engineer comfortably and error-free.
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