Learn how PTC Creo helped College Park optimize the Soleus foot. It’s now 40% stronger and 40g (10%) lighter. See College Park in action. Read the inspiring story and view video at http://ptc.co/rRTpX and on the PTC Creo blog at http://ptc.co/rSSZm. Learn about additional PTC Creo customers at http://ptc.co/skweR

1. Learn how PTC Creo helped College Park optimize the Soleus foot.
It’s now 40% stronger and 40g (10%) lighter.

2. College Park uses PTC Creo for Prosthetic Feet
Incorporated in 1988, College Park Industries uses biomechanical design
principles to develop and manufacture a broad selection of prosthetic feet
with anatomical function. Based in Warren, MI, the firm’s customers
include prosthetic facilities worldwide while its end-users comprise lower
limb amputees of all ages who maintain low- to high-activity levels.
“We conducted rigorous analysis of the
mechanics of footfall and gait with PTC
Creo.
Using these tools we optimized the
Soleus foot. It’s now 40% stronger and
40g (10%) lighter.”
Michael Leydet,
Director of Research
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3. College Park uses PTC Creo to design Prosthetic Feet
Incorporated in 1988, College Park Industries uses biomechanical design
principles to develop and manufacture a broad selection of prosthetic feet
with anatomical function. Based in Warren, MI, the firm’s customers
include prosthetic facilities worldwide while its end-users comprise lower
limb amputees of all ages who maintain low- to high-activity levels.
Initiatives
Solution
Results
• Reduce product design time and
increase productivity to improve
time to market.
• PTC Creo used to design all 10 of
their products to collect real world
kinematic data.
• Respond to market/regulatory
changes.
• Used Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
tools from PTC to design stronger,
lighter designs for improved real
world performance prosthetic feet.
• After FEA, College Park was able to
reduce mass, while maintaining and in some cases improving - the
strength of parts.
• Bring greater mobility to those with
limb loss, a challenge faced by
more than 1.7 million Americans.
• Improve quality by using
quantitative measurement to aid in
design
• Optimized Soleus foot to be 40%
stronger and 40g (10%) lighter.
• The iPecs Tech was named the
winner in the Electronics category in
NASA Tech Briefs’ 2011 “Create the
Future” design competition.
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4. College Park uses PTC Creo to design Prosthetic Feet
See College Park in action. Read the inspiring story and view video at
http://ptc.co/rRTpX and on the PTC Creo blog at http://ptc.co/rSSZm.
Learn about additional PTC Creo customers at http://ptc.co/skweR
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