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Apollo AFX™

Plate design, manufacturing-process evaluation and production fixtures for an ankle fracture plating platform.

Fig. 1 Schematic illustration, not product geometry
ContextGLW Medical
RoleDesign engineer
Tools and processCreo Parametric
Period2024 — Now
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Problem

The Apollo AFX platform needed a new plate, and an efficient way to manufacture it.

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My contribution

  • Designed a new plate for the system in Creo Parametric.
  • Evaluated and introduced a novel manufacturing process. Details are under NDA.
  • Created production fixtures.
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Process

My work at GLW runs under design controls: DHF documentation, design and process FMEA, and V&V protocols and reports, with incoming inspection of supplier components.

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Result

Manufacturing optimizations on my GLW projects have saved weeks to a couple of months per project.

Product context, from GLW Medical’s public material: Apollo AFX is an ankle fracture plating platform of 26 plates in six families, made in a TI-PEEK composite with PEEKLOC™. FDA 510(k) clearance in March 2022; full release on January 31, 2024.

The manufacturing process is under NDA and is described only in general terms.