Medical Appliance Technicians

Tools and Technology

Tools Include:

• Scanners (3D scanning systems)
• Blow torches (Acetylene torches)
• Respiratory therapy compressors (Air compressors)
• Alignment jig (Alignment stands)
• Hex keys (Allen wrenches)
• Anvils
• Workshop presses (Arbor presses)
• Tube bending machinery (Band benders)
• Power saws (Band saws)
• Pneumatic sanding machines (Bead blasters)
• Power sanders (Belt sanders)
• Lathes (Bench lathes)
• Punches or nail sets or drifts (Bench punches)
• Wing benders (Bending brakes)
• Power buffers (Buffing wheels)
• Cast cutters or saws (Cast cutting saws)
• Hammers (Claw hammers)
• Milling cutters (Computer numerical controlled CNC milling machines)
• Lathes (Computerized lathes)
• Power drills (Cordless drills)
• Milling cutters (Cutting wheels)
• Deburring equipment (Deburring tools)
• Calipers (Dial calipers)
• Digital camcorders or video cameras (Digital camcorders)
• Scanners (Digitizers)
• Power sanders (Disk sanders)
• Workshop presses (Drill presses)
• Power sanders (Drum sanders)
• End cut pliers (End cutting nippers)
• Sewing machines (Flatbed sewing machines)
• Pressure indicators (Force platforms)
• Glue guns
• Power grinders (Grinding equipment)
• Rasps (Grinding rasps)
• Power grinders (Grinding wheels)
• Files (Half-round files)
• Heat guns
• Hex keys (Hex wrenches)
• Laboratory box furnaces (High temperature laboratory box furnaces)
• Laboratory mechanical convection ovens (High temperature laboratory ovens)
• Dust collectors (High volume dust collectors)
• Laboratory mechanical convection ovens (Laboratory infrared ovens)
• Laboratory mechanical convection ovens (Laboratory mechanical benchtop convection ovens)
• Laboratory mechanical convection ovens
• Notebook computers (Laptop computers)
• Sewing machines (Longarm sewing machines)
• Tape measures (Measuring tapes)
• Pipe bending mandrels (Metal bending mandrels)
• Power grinders (Metal grinders)
• Power saws (Metal-cutting bandsaws)
• Personal computers
• Pipe vises
• Power saws (Pneumatic oscillating saws)
• Pneumatic hammer (Pneumatic riveting hammers)
• Power drills
• Power planes (Power planers)
• Power routers (Power routing tools)
• Bench vises (Prosthetic bench vises)
• Ear muffs (Protective ear muffs)
• Rivet tools (Rivet guns)
• Power saws (Rotary saws)
• Mallets (Rubber mallets)
• Safety glasses
• Swaging tools
• Power saws (Table saws)
• Torque wrenches
• Vacuum molding machines (Vacuum formers)
• Pneumatic vacuum equipment (Vacuum stations)
• Power routers (Vertical routers)
• Welders
• Files (Wood files)
• Bench vises (Workshop bench vises)

Technologies Include:

• Computer aided design CAD software

• Autodesk AutoCAD software
• Ohio Willow Wood OMEGA Tracer System
• Seattle Systems Shapemaker
• SoftSource CADview
• Vorum Research Corporation CANFIT-PLUS

• Computer aided manufacturing CAM software

• Orthotic fabrication software

• Medical software

• Footmaxx Metascan software
• Gait analysis software

The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet291)