Case Study: MMI achieves rapid scale-up to market-ready microsurgery instruments with Materialise's additive manufacturing

Additive Manufacturing Helps MMI Go from Start-up to Microsurgery Instrumentation Success Story

MMI, an Italian start‑up behind the Symani Surgical System and NanoWrist micro‑instruments, needed to move from R&D prototyping to commercial, sterile single‑use instrumentation while meeting extremely tight tolerances and keeping iteration costs manageable. To solve complex shapes and interior channels that are difficult or uneconomical to mold at low volumes, MMI partnered with Materialise to leverage additive manufacturing (AM)/3D printing services.

Materialise supplied AM production and supply‑chain support that let MMI rapidly iterate designs (even changes of a hundredth of a millimeter), produce end‑use disposable parts with integrated components and internal channels on demand, and validate performance quickly without costly mold changes. As a result, Materialise helped fast‑track MMI’s move from prototype to market‑ready product, support CE‑marked human cases, and give the company the flexibility to scale production or transition to injection molding in the future.

MMI

Massimiliano Simi

Founder