Prosthetic workshops and limb-fitting services that laminate their own sockets are the main users. The anchor is built into the socket during lamination and leaves a male pyramid, so the service needs lamination equipment, resins, reinforcement materials and trained technicians. The intended amputation levels are not stated, so confirm them before adding the part to a build protocol.
Services with strong documentation practices will make most use of the graduation markings. Recording the reading, the layup and the resin on the build sheet creates a reference that can be used when the socket is replaced.
Users who need replacement sockets over time, for example as their residual limb changes, benefit when the new socket can reproduce what worked in the old one. The markings give the technician one more fixed point to work from.
Charitable limb programmes and export buyers building sockets locally can stock the anchor with their lamination materials. Confirm what the markings measure, pyramid dimensions, lamination instructions and material-specific ratings before placing an order, since the part cannot be tested once it is embedded.
Workshops introducing the anchor should agree how the marking reading is written down, for example which mark faces forwards, so every technician records it the same way. A shared convention makes the record useful to whoever builds the next socket.
The anchor is not suited to users above 125 kg, to limbs whose receivers do not match its pyramid, or to workshops without lamination capability. The conformity documentation those procurement routes require is issued by the manufacturer and provided by the seller.