April 20, 2011 ( www.fuerzasmilitares.org ) .- Colombia's Military Industry - INDUMIL within their Corporate Social Responsibility projects is conducting a research project and technology development in conjunction with the Military University and Central Military Hospital that seeks to create national technology and manufacture a prosthetic leg, which is appropriate to the needs of disabled people in our armed conflict and / or injured persons in different circumstances.
The need arises because of the large number of disabled which are currently served by implementing imported prostheses, which are very expensive abroad, and are designed for people of stature and build than those that characterized the Colombian race.
The project is being implemented using technologies in simulation, computer-aided design, gait analysis, and rapid prototyping, design and knowledge of our professionals distinctly Colombian.
The project comprises three phases, is currently in phase 2 which is the construction of a polycentric mechanism, it simulates the natural movement of the knee.
For the Colombian Military Industry - INDUMIL this type of project represents an opportunity for synergy between group companies and Corporate Social Defence - gsed, providing knowledge and technological resources of their own, with budgets that benefit the technological development the country and the disabled population as a step towards their rehabilitation into society.
Source: Official Website Army
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