Top Benefits Of 3D Scanning For Your Central Fabrication In The Wake Of COVID-19

As Central Fabrication, you have various customers with countless orders coming in. If you haven’t made the switch to 3D scanning, it can be difficult to reach your deadlines, increase customers or fulfill new orders without more techs on your payroll. Especially in our current global pandemic conditions, it can be difficult to process new orders or keep business running smoothly from a distance.

In this article, we detail the benefits of 3D scanning human body parts for central fabrication by comparing it to traditional methods.

“If you haven’t made the switch to 3D scanning, it can be difficult to reach your deadlines, increase customers or fulfill new orders without more techs on your payroll.”

Benefits of 3D scanning vs. traditional method

Category	Subcategory	Traditional Method	3D Scanning
Measurements	Method	Depending on clinicians	Standardized
	Errors	Depending on clinicians Errors can be added to errors from capture.	Depending on capture/3D scanner No error addition from capture.
	Uniformity	No.	Yes.
Forms	Fill in	Do not get complete information usually	Unable to send it if mandatory fields not filled in
	Uniformity	No.	Yes.
Shipping	Damage	Casts/Foam box can be damaged.	No damage to digital files.
	Fees	Cost of shipping or carrier.	No cost.
	Time	2-3 days.	Instant.
Design	Work	In house	In house or Remote
	Time	2-3 hours	1 hour
	Measurements	Manual measurements can be not enough.	Access to the complete shape of the body part
Storage	Place	Room/warehouse	Computer/server
	Organization	Can be difficult to find an old model	Easy to find the files to reuse them
Marketing		On forms	Customized app
Customers	Range	Hard to reach out customers from outside of the local area	Easy to reach out customers from outside of the local area
	New clinicians		New clinicians like to use technology
Centralization and standardization	Uniformity	Each clinic practice is different and hard to change	Same tools to capture and measure and same methods
	Sales representative	Need to know all the old and new methods	Same method for everybody
	Training	Not easy to train new customers	Easy and can be done online
Employees		Need a lot of technician to design and produce	Limited number of technicians needed
Insurance	Information	Not much data and information	Give accurate data and more information
	Full custom product	Limited = Less reimbursement	Easier = Best reimbursement
Ecology		Lot of material waste	Free of waste

What about 3D scanning during these pandemic conditions?

With social distancing and self-isolation taking precedence in our lives, this is a perfect example of how 3D scanning can help central fabrication. With the world in slow motion and many companies working at a bare minimum, essential services such as carrier companies are becoming overloaded and extending their delivery times. In the United States alone, C-Fabs are currently seeing about a 30% decrease in business. It is becoming difficult, if not impossible, to process new orders or make headway on previous orders while using traditional methods. Using 3D scanning allows you to slow down without completely stopping by having new orders through emails, remote product design, and sending to a production line queue.

At Techmed 3D, we are still training, and giving support and information about our solutions. Contact us and our team will be happy to help you make the transition.