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Mikkel Huse Studio: Design of 3D product models

Mikkel Huse Studio is a design company that has used traditional 3D printing to create physical models of their designs. With FIM, they have had the opportunity to produce models that also use the actual material the final product is to be manufactured in.

The case: Overview and context

The background to the work with Danish AM Hub began 8 years ago in Præstø. The tragic story of the 13 students and 2 teachers from Lundby Efterskole who went sailing on Præstø Fjord in February and capsized is well known. Seven of the students were immediately put into a coma, and one of the teachers died.

When the individuals were pulled from the water, they were treated for hypothermia-severe cooling of the body. This was done by draining their blood, warming it, and then returning it to the body. This is a complex process.

The doctor who carried out the treatment, specialist physician Claus Lie, is one of the people behind a new invention that will make hypothermia treatment easier and faster. Claus Lie, who is also co-founder of the company HeathCath, contacted Mikkel Huse Studio to ask for help with the design.

“The system is gentler and also far more mobile than the techniques used today, and the treatment can simply be started earlier than is possible today” – Specialist physician Claus Lie

In AM HYBRID, Mikkel Huse Studio received help testing designs through FIM. This supported the process of selecting the design with the optimal product properties. The products-the insertion catheter and a luer lock fitting between the water hose and the heating bag-were manufactured in polypropylene.

“The combination of 3D printing and injection moulding has enabled us to produce real physical models of our design in the material the products are to be manufactured in. This makes it possible to ensure that a particular design is the right one before actual production is set up” – Mikkel Huse, owner of Mikkel Huse Studio

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