EXACTECH’S KNEE INSTRUMENTATION SYSTEM WINS IDEA BRONZE (Orthopedics This Week)
Exactech, Inc. has announced that the new Truliant Knee System’s surgical instrumentation has been honored with bronze award in the 2017 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA). The annual event is sponsored by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA).
As the company wrote in its August 21, 2017 news release, “The designs embody Exactech’s brand strategy and offer surgeons a reproducible and efficient experience through texturing and blue accents which indicate touch points for adjustability and functionality; elegant black background for high-contrast markings and easily identified grip locations; dials that offer tactile and auditory feedback with every click; textured surfaces on handles and specific points which provide a secure grip and accommodate mechanical and functional needs of the user.”
According to Laurent Angibaud, director of knee and CAS engineering at Exactech, “Merging customer input with solid design principles, our industrial design and technical engineers optimized the function and appearance of new instrumentation to improve user experience, which is core to our sur...
