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Humans of Manufacturing: Heroes

Author: Kip Hanson

As COVID-19 spread across the United States, states found themselves in need of producing and sourcing critically needed supplies. In Ohio, that was aided by the Ohio Manufacturing Alliance to Fight COVID-19 - leveraging Ohio’s tremendous manufacturing capabilities for the production of everything from mechanical ventilators to disposable gowns.

Humans of Manufacturing: Heroes

Author: Anastasia Ustinova

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a surging need for medical and personal protective equipment. But it’s not just enough to make the needed equipment and supplies, you also have to get it to where it’s needed most. For rural America, resources are limited, medical facilities are few and far between, and the infrastructure to supply them is lacking.

Humans of Manufacturing: Heroes

Author: Brett Brune

Siemens Technology, Maxim BioMedical and Siemens Healthineers built a partnership and a proposal in "record time" to help increase the speed and scale at which the United States can diagnose COVID-19--cutting what normally takes six months to a year down to just six weeks.

Springing Into Action to 3D Print COVID-19 Swabs

In response to a pandemic-related plea from a Florida hospital, a newly formed team at Formlabs, a manufacturer of SLA 3D printers and high-end resins, needed only one week to begin printing its very first parts for customers: swabs used to test people for COVID-19.

Humans of Manufacturing: Heroes

Author: Brett Brune

It’s not every day that the 30 women and men at The Nonwovens Institute at North Carolina State University find themselves working 12-hour shifts, six days a week and sometimes overnight to manufacture a product. In fact, it was never the case prior to mid-March 2020.