In 1963 Waldemar LINK GmbH & Co. KG developed Germany’s first ever prosthetic hip joint. The renowned company from Hamburg is a real driver of innovation when it comes to developing implants. So we couldn’t be happier that the endoprosthesis experts at LINK use our Multigrind^® CB grinding machines to produce their high-quality knee implants.

The surface of a prosthetic knee joint has up to 600 (!) grinding paths next to one another. It’s a real challenge for the CAM software, CNC controller and grinding machine, particularly because we have to work with very hard materials (like cobalt-chrome-molybdenum alloys).

In the current issue of Siemens motion world 2-2012, there’s an article about the interplay between the CAM software used at LINK, the SIEMENS CNC controller (Haas machines use the Sinumerik 840D sl) and our grinding machines.

Siemens has kindly made the article available for us: please download it here.