Additive Manufacturing and Mass Customization in the Hearing Aid Industry
Event details
| Date | 22.05.2025 |
| Hour | 14:15 › 15:30 |
| Speaker | Dr. Patrizia Richner, SONOVA AG Patrizia Richner got her Master’s degree in mechanical engineering at ETH Zurich and the University of California at Berkeley. Her PhD thesis at ETH Zurich focused on 3D printing at the nanometer scale. For the last 8 years she has been working for the world’s largest hearing instrument manufacturer Sonova AG, where she’s developing the newest generation of 3D printed hearing aids, using materials ranging from soft silicones to medical grade titanium alloys. |
| Location | Online |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | English |
Additive Manufacturing or 3D printing has been a hot topic with many new developments the last 20-30 years and still is. Even though its many advantages like low material usage, sustainability and great variety of producible shapes, injection molding is often still the preferred manufacturing method due to considerably lower prices per unit for large batch sizes. Additive manufacturing is often seen as prototyping method. This seminar will share why this is not the case in parts of the hearing aid industry by showing how such parts are produced and why additive manufacturing is the method of choice here.
This seminar is part of the EPFL course on Advanced Additive Manufacturing Technologies (MICRO-413)
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Practical information
- Informed public
- Free
- This event is internal
Organizer
- Professor Christophe Moser
Contact
- christophe.moser@epfl.ch