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NCS | Medical Devices brings the transosseous to SMILE 2019

We look forward to seeing you from tomorrow to Sunday at SMILE - Shoulder Milan International Live Experience at the Humanitas Congress Center.
Tomorrow, February 28th, thanks to Professor Alessandro Castagna, it will be possible to attend a Live Surgery with the use of our Taylor Stitcher system for the transosseous RCR repair.

Our staff will be waiting for you at booth number 12 to replicate with the Dexter Shoulder Simulator the RCR intervention seen live!

• LIVE SURGERY:
  Live Surgery 3, ROOM E, 9.00 a.m.
• Revision Rotator Cuff Repair with Transosseous
  The complete SMILE 2019 programme is available HERE.

NCS is waiting for you!

by NCS Company

NCS is happy to present you DOSE: the hypercar prototype born from the Fabio Ferrante’s community of design

DOSE, Design Open Source Experiment, is an online scouting community for young designers willing to work in group projects which will pave the way for bigger projects.
The founder of DOSE, Fabio Ferrante commissioned NCS to prototype the DOSE Elytron, the project conceived by the community.

Who is Fabio Ferrante?

Fabio Ferrante is an Italian designer formed in Turin where he started working as Product Designer in 2003. In 2010, after working with high profile brands such as FCA Group, Alfa Romeo and Volkswagen group, he became Chief Designer of Puritalia Automobili, a new Italian automotive company that produces limited edition sports cars.
In 2013 Ferrante moved to New York, where he works with several clients on different Product Design projects.
After winning the 5 International Design Awards Ferrante launched DOSE in 2017.

What is DOSE?

DOSE - Design Open Source Experiment - is an online community where all members can be part of virtual design teams and create transportation design projects from first sketch to prototype. DOSE offers participants the opportunity to broaden their portfolio by sharing ideas and cooperating with a team to bring an idea to a prototype.

Ferrante launches a car design project with the respective guidelines to the community and all members are invited to participate and compete in order to be on a select team.
In each creative area a contest is announced and at the end, the winning idea is evaluated by Fabio Ferrante. The selected team is then supervised by Fabio Ferrante during the development process.

DOSE Elytron

DOSE Elytron is the name of the car design project born from the DOSE community and manufactured through the collaboration of Ferrante and NCS.
The DOSE Elytron is a concept of an electric hypercar. Concept cars such as Pininfarina Modulo, Cadillac Cyclone or the Norman Timbs Special, had an important influence on this project.

NCS & DOSE

The NCS/Ferrante collaboration is a result of a long standing business relationship (and friendship) between Fabio Ferrante and Marcello Fantuzzi, Technical Director & President of NCS | Newcast.
In October of 2018, Ferrante sent NCS Proto and Style team the specifications of
the project and a model of the Elytron. The team reverse engineered and quickly built and assembled a 1:5 scale prototype. The NCS team worked in record time to complete the project while sharing their progress with Ferrante who in turn posted these updates with his followers on Instagram.

Success

The project’s success came about as a result of the NCS team paying close attention to detail while perfecting every single component of the DOSE Elytron design.

Components are made in selective laser sintering (SLS PA12). The rear extractor is made of carbon fiber as the front splitter, headlights are in watershed, a transparent material similar to real headlights and, last but not least, wheels are made of aluminium.

The most interesting part of the prototype and in great detail are the wheels. Wheels are detached from the body of the prototype and held together thanks to a small dice in the middle. The Proto & Style team also created a key to mount and dismount the wheel.
When all pieces were assembled the Elytron was coated and the 21st of December 2018 the prototype was released.

The DOSE Elytron was very popular and successful on social media as a result of Ferrante’s satisfaction with the final results. NCS is proud of having been a part of this project and in the successful completion of this design masterpiece.

DOSE ----- https://www.fferrante.com/dose/
INSTAGRAM DOSE ----- https://www.instagram.com/dose_community/
INSTAGRAM FABIO FERRANTE ----- https://www.instagram.com/fabio_ferrante/
INSTAGRAM TEAM NCS OFFICIAL ----- https://www.instagram.com/team_ncs_official/?hl=it

by NCS Company

NCS supports STRETTO IN CARENA, the team of the University of Messina at the MOTOSTUDENT 2020

After the collaboration which brought SCIGHERA, the motorcycle designed by the PoliMi Motorcycle Factory, to win the MOTOSTUDENT championship, NCS | Newcast Services is ready to collaborate with another team of students. This team is from the University of Messina and it is called STRETTO IN CARENA, a young and determined team which will participate to the championship in the Petrol category with a petrol engine.

For the first time students will participate to the 6th edition of the MOTOSTUDENT international championship that will take place in Aragon in 2020.
MOTOSTUDENT is a four-day competition which calls to Aragon, Spain, students from universities from all over the world for a real race in which they have the chance to demonstrate their competences starting from the design of a project up to the creation of a prototype.

Marcello Fantuzzi, Techinical Director & President of NCS met the team at the Feltrinelli of Messina and has formalised the collaboration:

“I have the capability to lead you to Aragon. I am here to invest in your future because your future will be my profit and if you believe in what you are doing it will be so.”

The committment of NCS is to help students during the process of design and provide all the materials and means of production they need.
Fantuzzi also encouraged and provided valuable advice on the topic:

“The challenge is to sacrifice yourself and strive for an objective. Your team is very good one but the motorcycle is only one and it must be the best.”

and more

“You don’t have the requirements to go to Aragon, but you accepted the challenge anyway. This is what I saw in you. We will not go there to win but we will go there to join and win for ourselves.”

NCS is ready to collaborate and support the ideas of STRETTO IN CARENA, a team formed by 70 students at their very first experience but with a huge will of put themselves to the test with the big ones.

Motostudent  >>> http://www.motostudent.com/
Stretto In Carena >>>  https://strettoincarena.it/

by NCS Company

NCS Lab challenges cold ice and winds of Alaska

Alaska 2019 Ski Walking Winter Expedition is the next expedition of the project Alaska Adventures which will cross Alaska and Canada during the frightful polar winter. Following the roads of Klondike gold rush, the expedition will be partly on skis which will tow a sled on the snow and partly on foot with the sled towed on wheels.

Why a sled?

The choice fell upon a sled both to transport materials and basic supplies but also to emulate the limited possibilities available to pioneers at the end of the nineteenth century and their lonely crossing in 1997.

NCS is sponsor of this project as provider of the hull and also of the two sleds laminated in carbon fiber designed by students of the Department of Material Science and Industrial Engineering of the University of Trento.

Tomorrow, December 6th 2018 Marcello Fantuzzi – Technical Director & President and Andrea Vecchi – Laboratory Manager will take part at the official presentation of the project:

The challenge will be 1300 km long for approximately 50 days facing cold, thin ice, temperature variations and....grizzly bears!

Find out more about the expedition here:

https://alaskaadventures.it/spedizioni/alaska-2019-ski-walking-winter-expedition/

NCSTeam wishes Maurizio Belli and Fulvio Giovannini good luck for the adventure! 

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NCS presents “Arthroscopic Transosseous Rotator Cuff Repair”, the first monograph about transosseous

Tomorrow “Arthroscopic Transosseous Rotator Cuff Repair Tips and tricks” will be presented at the ICOT Institute (Surgery, Orthopaedy, Traumatology Institute) in Latina. Matteo Mantovani, CEO of NCS will talk about the arthroscopic surgical technique with the NCS Lab | Medical Devices Taylor Stitcher and about how this procedure improves the process of reconstruction of the rotator cuff. The procedure with Taylor Stitcher also guarantees several benefits for patients but also minimizes costs for operating rooms:

 “This book covers all aspect of the transosseous approach, starting from foundation of biological science and progressing through postoperative rehabilitation. Along the way, the chapters discuss biomechanical factors and technologies in the marketplace, tracing the evolution over time, proposing solution and offering a view on the future. All of the material is supported by an impressive reference collection, which provides infinite possibilities to deepen one’s knowledge on the subject”

At the presentation, along with Matteo Mantovani, there will also be other authors:

• Claudio Chillemi – Author – Orthopaedic Aid at ICOT
• Alessandro Castagna – Author – Director of the Shoulder Operational Unit at the Humanitas Institute, Milan
• Marcello Osimani – Author – Radiology Operational Unit Polo Pontino

After the presentation, the audience will have the chance to attend a live surgery held by Claudio Chillemi and Alex Castagna.

Read an excerpt of the book here:
LOOK INSIDE: https://www.amazon.com/Arthroscopic-Transosseous-Rotator-Cuff-Repair/dp/3319761528/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1535559342

Further information about event here:

https://www.giomi.com/news/aggiornamento-in-medicina-e-chirurgia-presentazione-di-un-libro-in-materia-di-ortopedia/

NCS | Taylor Stitcher:

https://ncs-company.com/case-history/medical-devices/sport-medicine/taylor-stitcher/

by NCS Company

NCS goes to Boston for the event “Transosseous Academy 2018”

“Transosseous Academy”, the first international convention and the second annual event, has just finished in Boston. NCS was main sponsor.

“Transosseous Academy”, the first international convention and the second annual event, has just finished in Boston. NCS was main sponsor. “Transosseous Academy” is an independent and non-profit association born in order to promote and support scientific research, innovation and foster knowledge sharing on the transosseous surgical technique.
The mission of the association is to put together clinicians, engineers and scientists to create an interactive environment in which propose and carry out research leading to more and more positive results for patients.
Transosseous Academy combines the engineering sphere with the clinical and medical sphere in a brand-new field oriented towards science and the sharing of results. TA’s primary objective is to collect clinical data in order to highlight and support the surgical treatments studied.

NCS | Medical Devices supports the project “Transosseous Academy” realised in Milan during the first meeting in 2017 and in the first international event held in Boston last 10th of November. NCS has always been active in the processes of design and production of implantable biomedical devices intended and dedicated to arthroscopic techniques which became even more effective. For this reason, NCS sustains the mission of Transosseous Academy.

An international faculty held speeches, lectio magistralis and re-live. The various interventions covered all the aspects of transosseous from biomechanics to biology, from the several techniques available today to a new way of collecting in an objective way clinical data leading to clinical results. An exceptional faculty able to elevate scientific content and maintain an interactive and stimulating environment.

NCS and Transosseous Academy would like to thank Dr Alessandro Castagna, chairman and former supporter of TA all the members of the faculty (mentioned below). A sincere thanks to Dr Snyder who shared his unbelievable experience and carrier full of success and innovation.

Faculty:

Stephen Snyder, MD – USA
August Mazzocca, MD – USA
Claudio Chillemi, MD-ITA
Cory Edgar, MD – USA
Myriam Capasso, MD – VE
Andrea Pellegrini, MD – ITA
Jean Kany, MD – FRA
Sumant Krishnan, MD – USA
Uma Srikumaran, MD – USA
Matteo Mantovani, Eng.-ITA 

by NCS Company

UNI CEI EN ISO/IEC 17025:2005 Certification

NCS Lab srl has obtained ACCREDIA accreditation according to the UNI CEI EN ISO/IEC 17025:2005 standard.

We are pleased to announce the certification of the Accredited Laboratory LAB No. 1717L of September 19, 2018: "General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories" for the following tests:

• Hardness Brinell HBW 2,5/187,5 (100-550)
• Hardness Rockwell HRC (20-60)
• Hardness Vickers HV10 (100-400)

Being in compliance with the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025:2005 means to possess both the technical competence required to carry out the analyses and a quality management system, which is essential to guarantee the correctness of the analytical data and the traceability of the measurements.
As accredited laboratory, NCS is able to provide reliable, credible and nationally and internationally accepted declarations of conformity and guarantees:

• Impartiality
• Independence
• Correctness
• Competence

The UNI CEI EN ISO/IEC 17025:2005 standard is international and is accepted in all countries of the world.
The list of tests approved is available at www.accredia.it

ACCREDIA assesses the technical competence and professional suitability of the operators of the Testing Laboratories, verifying their compliance with mandatory rules and voluntary standards, to ensure the value and credibility of certifications, inspections, tests and calibrations.
Accreditation ensures that test and inspection reports and certifications (system, product and personnel) bearing the ACCREDIA mark are issued in compliance with the most stringent international requirements for conformity assessment, and behind constant and rigorous surveillance of the behaviour of testing laboratories.

Test list

Certificate

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