ConceptA tool I would build. Not client work.
Orthotics production board
The scan is done, the design is somewhere, a printer is running something. To know when a pair will be ready, somebody walks over and looks.
Concept
Not client work- What this is
- A tool I would build, drawn to show the idea. Nobody has bought it, and every name on these screens is invented.
- For
- A clinic or small lab that prints or mills its own insoles.
- The money
- I found no public benchmark for lab turnaround or cost per pair, so there is no number here. Yours go in the calculator below.
- Belongs to
- Health. The nearest thing I have built is a clinic platform with insole design in the browser (private work). This board is not part of it.
- Drawn
- 11 Nov 2026 · sheet 3 of 4
Live demo
Move one card. Every time moves with it.
Scanned 2Designing 2Finishing 1Ready to fit 3
Scanned2
- Karel ProefUploaded 09:12
- Mila StaalUploaded 08:40
Designing2
- Noor FictiefDr. Maes · version 2
- Eva ExempleDr. Claes · version 1
Queued4
- Tom TestTPU 95A · Normal · 3 hDue Thu 12:00Ready Wed 13:10prints next
- Lena SampleTPU 95A · Soft · 2 h 40Due Thu 16:00Ready Wed 13:40on Printer 1
- Jan ModaalTPU 95A · Hard · 3 h 20Due Fri 10:00Ready Wed 16:30on Printer 2
- Sofie ProefTPU 95A · Soft · 2 h 50Due Wed 15:00 · fitting bookedReady Wed 16:301 h 30 late
Printing1
- Anna DemoTPU 95A · Normal · 3 h 10Printer 1 · 50 min leftReady Wed 11:00due Wed 16:00
Finishing1
- Ruben SpecimenTPU 95A · HardFinishing · 12 min leftReady Wed 09:52due Wed 12:00
Ready to fit3
- Hugo ModelFitting today 11:30
- Bram DummyFitting Thu 09:00
- Iris ProbeFitting Thu 14:30
Printer 1Printing
Anna Demo · Normal
50 min left, done 10:30Then Lena Sample, 10:30
Printer 2Bed clear
Waiting for a pair
IdleThen Tom Test, 09:40
Times assume the queue runs top to bottom on whichever printer is free first, plus 30 minutes of finishing. A late flag is about the job, not the person.
Concept
Production board
Every pair from scan to fitting, and the two printers. Move a card to Printing and every ready-by time is worked out again.
The other screens
One job, and its paperwork.
- Demo ClinicProduction14JobsPrinters2Mill fixturePaperworkStatements3MaterialsLotte VoorbeeldLab and front deskHardness by zonedesign version 3
- FrontSoft · 22% infill
- MiddleNormal · 26% infill
- BackHard · 30% infill
Set by the practitioner in the design. The board shows it and passes it to the slicer. It does not change it.
Slicer settings170 minutes- Printer
- Printer 2
- Material
- TPU 95A
- Nozzle
- 230 °C
- Bed
- 40 °C
- Speed
- 60 mm/s
- Top and bottom
- 4 layers each
History- 09:40Moved to Printing by Lotte
- 09:02Sliced. 170 minutes, 41 g
- 08:55Design version 3 approved by Dr. Maes
- TueScans uploaded, left and right
Concept
One job
The hardness zones the practitioner set, the slicer settings and what has happened to the pair so far.
1 / 2 - Demo ClinicProduction14JobsPrinters2Mill fixturePaperworkStatements3MaterialsLotte VoorbeeldLab and front deskDraft
Statement for a custom-made device
Demo Clinic. The introduction and closing come from the clinic’s own standard texts.
- Made by
- Demo Clinic, Voorbeeldstraat 1
- Prescribed by
- Dr. A. Maes, prescription of 4 Nov 2026
- For the sole use of
- Sofie Proef, patient D-0412
- Device
- One pair of insoles, left and right, design version 3
- Materials
- TPU 95A. Front soft, middle normal, back hard
- Made on
- 11 Nov 2026, Printer 2, job 0412
Name and roleSignature and date
Filled from the job
- Made byClinic settings
- Prescribed byThe project
- For the sole use ofThe patient record
- DeviceThe design
- MaterialsThe print job
- Made onThe print job
Mark as signedEdit the textsConcept
Paperwork
A draft statement for the pair, filled from the job. A person reads it, completes it and signs it.
2 / 2
What it would be worth
Nobody walks to the printer to ask what is running.
That is the honest size of it: fewer interruptions, and a pair that would miss its fitting shows up on the board while there is still time to do something about it.
I looked for a public benchmark for orthotics lab turnaround and for cost per pair, and found none I could confirm. So I will not print one.
In week one I would time one pair from scan to fitting in your lab, and count how often someone asks where a pair is. That is the number worth having.
Your own number
Type your numbers and the sum appears here.
This is time spent asking, not a saving. A pair that misses its fitting costs more than this, and I have no public figure for that. Your numbers stay in this tab.
Where the line is
It schedules jobs. It does not touch the design.
What it does
- Shows every pair in one place, from scan to fitting.
- Works out when each queued pair will be ready, from print times and which printer is free.
- Flags a job that will be ready after it is due, while there is still time to move it.
- Passes the settings the practitioner chose to the slicer, unchanged.
- Fills a draft statement from the job, for a person to read and sign.
What it never does
- Change a design, a hardness or a material. Those are the practitioner’s.
- Judge a patient, or decide whose pair matters more. A person moves the cards.
- Sign, check or certify a statement.
- Start a print on its own. Someone clears the bed and presses the button.
This is planning and paperwork for a workshop. The clinic makes the insoles and stays their manufacturer; the board is the tool it plans them with, and I don’t market it as a medical device. What the clinic’s statement has to say is for the clinic and its advisers to decide.
Want this for real?
I would start with a week in your lab: your printers, your print times, and where a pair gets stuck. Then a fixed price.