Case Study: KLS Martin achieves personalized surgical guide production at scale with EOS 3D printing

KLS Martin scales personalized surgery in 24 minutes with EOS GmbH

KLS Martin, a medical device manufacturer, faced the challenge of scaling the production of personalized surgical guides for jaw reconstruction. These guides required clinical-grade precision, biocompatibility, and sterilizability, yet needed to be economical enough for single use, a combination difficult to achieve with conventional manufacturing. They partnered with vendor EOS GmbH to find a solution using industrial 3D printing.

The solution implemented by EOS utilized their selective laser sintering (SLS) technology and PA 2200 biocompatible material. This allowed KLS Martin to produce highly accurate, sterilizable guide sets in approximately 24 minutes each. The results included improved clinical outcomes through precise plan-to-OR transfer and the ability to support a growing surgical caseload without a proportional increase in manual labor or infrastructure. EOS enabled a stable, scalable operation that has been proven in continuous production for over a decade.

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