Interdisciplinary Project 2018/2019

Group:Fabrication for Care

Week 2: The visit of company

HODEY

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Introduction to the company

The firm Vital Centrum HODEY KG is a medical supply store and logistics center which is locating in Kamp Lintfort and in a few more cities in Germany.The company deals with rehabilitation,orthopedics - specialized for elderly and people with disabilities.It also provide orthopedic shoes, dentures,homecare and medical equipment.For many years,HODEY has been working as a holistic provider of health service.In addition,the experience which the company maintain,stands for innovative customer soluions,including individual care with orthopedics in the areas of prevention,therapy,mobility and care.

The company continuously invest modernization,technical equipment and qualifications of employees.It helps people to provide good care,relieve temporary or permanent disabilities,heal and re-mobilize them.In addition,the firm supply quality products from leading manufacturers of the industry and combine the range of medical services with meaningful health services and complementary products.Moreover,HODEY works at optimising of the services and the products,in order to re-innovate new technologies like they are already deal with 3D -Technic and using high quality textile materials for the products.It provide an electronic monitoring of the body and examine its condition.Our group of the Interdisciplinary project of the Fabrication of care was joining to this company,in which we was pleased to understand how the system is working and we was glad that the company has an a lot of ideas for making a project with them and to have a opportunity to work there.We took some pictures to documentate the process of working process of the machines and also some equipment. Rehabilitation,care,protection and aid belong to a sensitive area of basic human and social needs.At company HODEY you get the right products and service in high efficiency.

History of the company

The firm HODEY is existing for a 45 years and is one of the leading medical assistence companies in Germany.For more than,10 cities the company provides a medical equipment and homecare services.In addition,there is a small overview of the process in the years until now.On 03.11.1970, the couple Karl and Wilma Hodey laid the foundation stone for today's company in Kamp-Lintfort. In 1986 the first branch was opened in Neukirchen-Vluyn and in 1991 the location in Moers followed. The company HODEY has been working in Kleve since 1998 and in 2014 a branch was opened in Goch. From October 2011, with the takeover of the Sanitätshaus Hengstler-Janz GmbH in Aachen, HODEY is also represented there with a branch. In June 2016 the orthopedic shoe technology Peter Doepke, also from Aachen, was integrated.   Since the year 2000 is located in Kamp-Lintfort on the Kruppstr. 19 the headquarters of HODEY and since spring 2016 also the warehouse and logistics center on a total area of 6,300 square meters.   The company HODEY has been a member of the performance company rehaVital Gesundheitsservice GmbH since 1990, with its headquarters in Hamburg, a network of more than 100 leading companies in the healthcare industry. HODEY was the first company in its sector in Germany to work according to the guidelines of an internationally recognized quality management system, DIN EN ISO 9001. The system was recognized on 22.08.1995. Currently, HODEY has been certified according to the DIN EN ISO 9001: 2015 standard since 25.11.2013.

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Services and projects

Hodey is the provider of medical care services,with a lot of fields of supplies,including:

In addition,the company have a lot of projects,especially with the univercities.They are working and making a big project with the Hochschule Rhein-Waal,Kamp Lintfort for the FABLAB of the university.As a part of the university,our group of Fabrication for Care,as a students we was also pleased to help them with some ideas for project development with them.

Visiting the company and first impressions

It was really interesting to get an idea how the system and processes in the company Hodey works.we was welcomed from the header of the company in Kamp-Lintfort,who was prepared with the short presentation about how the firm deals with services and how it works.Providing the most efficiency care for every human being.

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In addition while we was looking around the company to examine the equipments,one of the workers of the company invite some of our group member to try testing the feets while providing an examination of how healthy they are and also if there is a need of some orthopedic rehabilitation.Meanwhile,it was really interesting to see how the process system work and the volunteer handle quite good.

This was done by using a special software,by monitoring from the worker in the company and making a special medical techniques in order to test how healthy are the feets,if needed some special care for the person and to prevent problems.

After while,we had the opportunity to see on the screen what was the result of the examination of the feets of the volunteer.Providing this we can observe how the proces is working and what are the feedbacks and recommodations from the assistance in the company.

Another part of our tour in the company,was introducing of developing the orthopedic platforms and shoes by using the 3D printer.Meanwhile,the interesting part was that using the shape of every feet they can create individually orthopedic equipment and also proteses.