Perhaps you don’t need a hearing aid now but, like millions before you, some day you might. When that day comes, you will be happy that on December 21^st, 2000, Phonak officially started their collaboration with Materialise and its team of software developers to create a solution that would forever change how hearing aids are designed and produced: RSM (Rapid Shell Modeling).

Midwest Prototyping, based in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, supplies customers from coast to coast with the prototypes that they require. Their team of highly-trained professionals strives to provide customers with the highest quality parts, and meet their deadlines each and every time. However, sometimes the unexpected can occur, and when it does, it helps to have not only the right people, but also the right software to get you through. At Midwest Prototyping, Materialise’s e-Stage was there to generate the support they needed to get them through.

Materialise’s Medical Production team is responsible for manufacturing unique parts for use in the treatment of a couple thousand patients each and every month, and demand is on the rise. In addition to delivering the high-quality expected of all of Materialise’s production teams, medical production must also ensure that they meet the strict standards demanded worldwide of any product destined for use inside an operating room. An important key for ensuring the highest quality for these patient-specific parts is traceability, and this is achieved thanks to another in-house solution offered at Materialise, Streamics.