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…workers to help fight the COVID-19 crisis in the Washington area and around the world. The company has created a design for reusable face shields and is providing them to health care teams in hospitals around the Greater Washington Metro area. The company also just opened up its patented design of its sterile 3D printer by waiving licensing fees globally…
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…the effort to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 1,000 3D-printed parts have already been delivered to local hospitals. HP’s 3D R&D centers in Barcelona, Spain; Corvallis, OR; San Diego, CA; and Vancouver, WA, are collaborating with partners around the world in a coordinated effort to increase production to meet urgent needs, HP says. Initial applications being validated and finalized…
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Dealing With The Impacts of COVID-19 When the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) responded to an outbreak of respiratory disease caused by a novel coronavirus in late-2019, the outbreak’s far-reaching consequences couldn’t have been predicted. Now here we are, dealing with the impacts of COVID-19 around the world. Whether they’ve sent their workforces home to work remotely, scaled back their…
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…in a great place before COVID-19 struck, having been slowed by flat capital expenditure and declining industrial production, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. The virus has since closed factory after factory worldwide with workers sent home. The reality, according to GlobalData, is that despite much hype over the years, advanced factory automation has not been substituted for…
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…many firms, the outbreak of COVID-19 has meant staff working from home and more use of teleconferencing rather than face to face meetings. However, according to global tech market advisory firm ABI Research, it’s a different situation for manufacturers because, despite investments in automation and reducing the need for staff on assembly lines, they still need to receive raw materials.…
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…Report, revealing the extent of COVID 19's impact on the industry. According to Fictiv's data: eighty nine percent (89%) report a direct business impact because of COVID-19 including lower sales, increased costs of materials and production, and canceled or delayed product launches; only 17% gave top marks to their supply chain’s performance over the last year; a majority are revisiting…
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…company. The company’s latest report, COVID-19 Impact on Cloud Services, reveals that the investment could now pay an unexpected dividend by transforming the way some businesses operate. Since mid-March 2020, cloud-based services for remote workers have kept much of the world working, forcing organizations that were previously opposed to remote working to embrace the idea. GlobalData forecasts that the cloud…
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…equipment (PPE) caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Kia Motors has announced that production of face shields has begun at its manufacturing plant in West Point, GA. Initial donations of medical use face shields assembled at Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia (KMMG) will be made in Georgia, Alabama, New York and California. With a monthly capacity of 200,000 units, the face shields…
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…the next phase of the COVID-19 Health Care Needs and Additive Manufacturing (AM) Capabilities Repository, where additive manufacturers can upload 3D print designs to be reviewed and placed on the NIH 3D Print Exchange. Designs submitted through the America Makes design submission form in connection with NIH 3D Print Exchange, will be placed in a fast track workflow for faster…
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…in its dedicated page for COVID-19 response. To put its plan into action, the company is calling on 3D printing shops and service bureaus with volume-production capacity. It also has an online form for institutions to request shipments of easily assembled protective shields. 3D printer maker Stratasys organized a face shield production project. Shown here are student workers with printed…
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Order Fulfillment During Covid-19 Before the coronavirus pandemic, e-commerce was said to be the fastest growing segment in the world. To some extent, the pandemic even catalyzed that growth while consumers rushed to online shopping. Meanwhile, individual warehouses ended up exposed on high volatility and unpredictability. Swisslog experts remained in liaison with customers during the pandemic. We had an opportunity…
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The COVID-19 outbreak has brought new realities to light that, just a few months ago, seemed unimaginable. Stay-at-home orders are keeping many people close to home. And social distancing – along with frequent cleaning of technology devices, hands, and surfaces – is widely accepted as the new norm. That doesn’t mean that adopting these new precautionary measures has been easy,…
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…face shields. Welcome to the post-COVID-19 industrial workplace While companies are wrestling with the question of when to re-open shuttered factories and distribution centers that were not deemed essential, the even bigger question is how to operate those facilities going forward. A very narrow aisle could take on a whole new meaning. Our industry has always looked for solutions to…
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The COVID-19 pandemic is arguably the most prolonged and harshest disruption the supply chain industry has seen in the last few decades. It has been quite a journey for businesses and warehouses from reacting to the situation, navigating operational changes through the lockdown, such as social distancing, and preparing along the way for the eventual re-opening as vaccine trials raise…
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…their warehousing and distribution operations. COVID-19 added fuel to that fire by putting “touch-free” on the front burner for companies that suddenly had to comply with workplace social distancing rules and other requirements. As these changes took place, the AIDC market found itself well positioned to support a physically distanced and touch-free work environment. Comprising equipment (i.e., handheld rugged mobile…
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