by David | Mar 27, 2020 | 3D News, 3D Trends, COVID-19, Manufacturing and Supply Chain, Medical
Dozens of organizations and hundreds of additive manufacturing companies are racing to help governments and healthcare institutions around the world address the shortage of life-saving respiration aids for intensive care COVID-19 patients who have difficulties...
by David | Mar 27, 2020 | 3D News, COVID-19, Medical
More than a half million people across the world have been infected with the novel coronavirus . While the spread in China has slowed, the US is facing an alarming uptick. The overwhelming spread of COVID-19 has left physicians and hospitals at a loss, especially in...
by David | Mar 27, 2020 | 3D News, 3D Trends, Manufacturing and Supply Chain
Additive manufacturing, or 3D Printing has long been trumpeted as the lodestar of a “Fourth Revolution”. In reality, uptake has been limited, it remains somewhat niche, and hype has not met market expectations. Yet as the world grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, the...
by David | Mar 27, 2020 | 3D Trends, Manufacturing and Supply Chain
Number of Views: 4 How many data points constitute a trend? It’s a question that has been on my mind since writing about an additive manufacturing (AM) production business called 3 rd Dimension Industrial 3D Printing near Indianapolis. . That story, which will be...
by David | Mar 27, 2020 | Companies, COVID-19, Manufacturing and Supply Chain, Medical
Much remains unknown about how exactly Ford plans to fast-track production of ventilators and powered air-purifying respirators with two established medical device makers as it hurries to join the fight against the expanding coronavirus outbreak. But it’s likely...
by David | Mar 27, 2020 | Companies, COVID-19, Manufacturing and Supply Chain, Medical
Denturist Eric Kukucka is hoping the same 3D printing equipment he uses to help restore smiles for his patients can do the same for frontline healthcare workers by providing them with protective masks and equipment. . Kukucka’s firm The Denture Center has produced a...
by David | Mar 27, 2020 | Companies, COVID-19, Manufacturing and Supply Chain, Medical
A Calgary 3D printing firm is volunteering its resources to help address potential medical equipment shortages as the COVID-19 pandemic spreads in Alberta. . Colin Pischke, president of Print Your Mind 3D, says his company could produce medical items including...
by David | Mar 27, 2020 | COVID-19, Education and Research, Medical
As the COVID-19 crisis continues to worsen and foreseeable shortages of necessary safety and medical equipment begin to materialize, several initiatives involving designers have sprung up to aid in the production of specialized protective gear for the doctors and...
by David | Mar 27, 2020 | COVID-19, Geopolitical Regions, Medical
A BELFAST-based medical tech firm that specialises in 3D printing is now developing products to help tackle Covid-19. Axial3D creates models of the human anatomy to assist surgeons in critical operations. But the firm is now working on parts that will be used in new...
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