Company profile

ARANZ Medical is a subsidiary of Applied Research Associates NZ Limited (ARANZ) (www.aranz.com) and was founded in 2005 to take the Silhouette product suite to market.

The ARANZ group of companies has the vision of developing technology based solutions to solve customers’ problems in differing application areas.  The group currently employs staff with high level skills in mathematics, software, hardware, manufacturing and business.  Our goal is to recruit talented and creative individuals with a mix of technical excellence and focus on developing innovative customer-focused solutions.  Qualifications held by the staff include 11 PhDs and 1 MB ChB (MD equivalent).

To date the group has demonstrated technical and commercial success in application areas as diverse as 3D modeling, data collection for movie making special effects, custom orthotics and prosthetics, and geological data interpretation.  For example,

• one of ARANZ’s first customer was Weta Digital who used our technology to bring to life animated characters in movie block busters such as Lord of the Rings Triolgy.
• the ARANZ-developed Hanger Insignia system (http://www.hanger.com/insignia/about_insignia.shtml) is installed in hundreds of clinics in the United States for custom fitting prostheses to amputees, and orthotics.

The ARANZ group’s most recent innovation focus has been the wholly owned subsidiary, ARANZ Medical Limited and the Silhouette product for wound measurement and documentation.  Like all our initiatives, Silhouette resulted from listening to customers and recognising that a simple technology-based solution could be created that would allow more efficient wound assessment with superior outcomes. 

Quality is important to ARANZ which has been ISO 9001 certified for over 10 years and is certified to ISO 13485 (Medical Devices).