Saving Lives with 24-Hours Turnarounds
The company, which takes its name from the acronym for Digitally Enhanced Compensation/Intensity Modulation with Alloys, has provided radiation therapy products to hospitals and cancer centers across the United States to aid in the treatment of cancer for over two decades. .decimal’s products are used with all types of radiation therapy treatments.
THE CLIENT
Company: .decimal, LLC
Headquarters: Sanford, Florida, USA
Industry:Medical Devices
THE OBJECTIVE
Automate the design and machining of patient-specific radiation therapy devices to
save time, maximize resource utilization,
improve accuracy, and more consistently achieve the firm's 24-hour-turnaround
guarantee.
THE SOLUTION
Implement CAMWorks machining software and
leverage the open Application Programming
Interfaces (APIs) of both CAMWorks machining
and SOLIDWORKS design software to automate
the design and machining of radiation therapy devices based on patient-specific data.
Now, with the automation that we’ve been able to achieve, we’re processing 75 custom, one-off products in brass, aluminum, wax or plastic on an average day, without any human intervention