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Fast Radius, a manufacturing technology company, launched production of reusable face shield kits to be used by health care workers treating patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nexteer Automotive is using its 3D printers in Michigan and Poland to make plastic masks and face shield headbands for help combat COVID-19.

U.S. manufacturing contracted in March as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) slammed the economy, the Institute for Supply Management said in a monthly report.

Just a few weeks ago, Alex Frost was looking to disrupt the floral industry, building a robotic arm to arrange roses, tulips and hyacinths. Today, he’s trying to solve a more dire problem: how to design and rapidly mass produce an inexpensive ventilator to help ease shortages due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

When it comes to shifting production to aid in the COVID-19 pandemic, challenges can exist even if the product isn’t a sharp deviation from products you normally manufacture. That’s what Kentwood, Mich.-based Autocam Medical discovered.

Driving into work one Tuesday morning in late March, Charles Boyce grew tired of hearing about the ventilator crisis in New York City. The president of Long Island City-based Boyce Technologies Inc. and a lifelong resident of the Empire State, he decided to do something about it.

The next time you’re out fertilizing the lawn or spraying for weeds, stop for a moment to think about Claudia Contreras. She deserves a round of applause. So do her coworkers. Contreras and her team have produced nearly 600,000 face shields for COVID-19 first responders over the past five months, with more in the works.

Masks may get all the attention during the current COVID-19 crisis, however for healthcare workers on the front lines critical PPE means more than just masks. Need, opportunity and ingenuity combined when some healthcare workers in Pauls Valley, Okla., told their spouses—who worked at Covercraft Industries LLC—that they couldn’t get the medical gowns necessary for protection from COVID-19.

As the current health crisis threatens the livelihood of manufacturers around the country, an idea for masks from a team member at Envision Dallas, which predominantly employs people with blindness or visual impairments, has helped the organization flourish.

Last month, when Flavio Volpe put out a call to auto parts makers to assist in the production of medical supplies, he wasn’t convinced that the industry would be able to pull it off. Yet, in the past three weeks more than 165 companies stepped up to volunteer.