Week 2 Visiting the company HODEY

HODEY is a healthcare company. The company has existed for over 45 years and received its success through tradition and experience. HODEY also stands for innovative customer solutions. Tasks include counseling and individual care with orthopedic aids in the field of prevention, therapy, mobility and care. The company continuously invests in the modernization and technical equipment as well as in the qualification of its employees. HODEY supplies people with temporary or permanent handicaps and manufactures among other things prostheses, insoles for shoes and also wheelchairs, thus ensuring that people can become mobile again. The products are made of selected materials and of very high quality.

Visiting the company: After a short welcome and some hints, the tour of the Company HODEY started. The owner presented various products and the machines.

Footprint Footprint

3D Printer

Footprint Footprint

We were also introduced to the Technick of the 3 D printer. This is used to make a model of a foot. The model will later be needed to make the actual prosthesis. By accurately replicating the foot, a perfectly fitting and perfect prosthesis can be produced. Hodey uses 3D printers to make accurate models of feet, for example, as a template or pre-impression for orthoses or prostheses

We got an insight into the programs that are used to measure a foot, for example, to adjust an insole. An employee explains what kinds of soles can be made and that there are qualitative differences. So you can customize everything from sports soles to leather insoles. At a test person, he showed in detail how the individual steps of the adjustment run.

Model Fusion 360 Photo of HODEY Model Fusion 360

Model Fusion 360

An employee of the company shows how to work on the footprint to make insoles for shoes

Picture HODEY Picture HODEY Model Fusion 360

After the tour, the owner of the company gave a short presentation about the Company and the work carried out. He explained that he would like to cooperate with the HSRW and our project and what possibilities there are. The project in cooperation with HODEY is to eventually replace the materials used with better or newer materials. Likewise, to make shoes or other items more attractive. Many thanks to Hodey for the opportunity to cooperate and a big thank you for the insights into the company we have received