Ford Motor Company, is collaborating with global Multinationals like 3M & GE Healthcare to lend its manufacturing and engineering expertise to quickly expand production of urgently needed medical equipment and supplies for healthcare workers, first responders and patients fighting coronavirus. Ford will also work with the United Auto Workers union who will be the backbone of the manufacturing process.
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) has swept rapidly across the globe stalling manufacturing operations, draining component inventories, and bottle-necking the production of many critical products. Worldwide, supply chains for almost every industry have collapsed. The issues we currently face with the production of life-saving medical equipment sadly expose how high the stakes are.
This post examines the vulnerabilities of global supply chains and highlights how digital manufacturing processes like additive manufacturing (AM) can improve their resiliency.
With the global Covid-19 pandemic showing no signs of slowing down, 3D printing companies like Formlabs, have taken it upon themselves to use their rapid customization capabilities to manufacture cheaper but medically-approved alternatives to existing medical devices.
BCN3D Delivers 400 3D Printed Face Shields to Protect Medical Workers in Hospitals from the Covid-19 Crisis
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BCN3D, a manufacturer of 3D printers based in Barcelona, Spain, has devoted all its technological and manufacturing capabilities, amid the Covid-19 pandemic, to help doctors and healthcare workers to print the necessary parts via its 3D printing farm. The parts will be distributed in all cities of Spain and, if necessary, in other parts of the world. It plans to print 2000 more face shields in the coming days.
We saw multiple efforts and initiatives taken up by companies across the globe to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic. We continue our effort to showcase similar efforts taken by other companies and how they are helping doctors, healthcare workers and patients amid the Coronavirus outbreak.
Novel Coronavirus Covid-19 has gripped the entire world the current times are difficult and the world awaits the cure. Though the drug research is going-on, 3D printing is helping doctors, nurses and healthcare workers from getting affected, helping the common man from spreading the virus and producing cheaper alternatives to medical products so the world does not face stock out situations.
We see how 3D printing is helping in the fight against Covid-19. How companies are opening up their facilities to provide access to its 3D printers and expertise to find ways to safeguard people from contracting the virus.
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