Topic: COVID-19

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3D Printing Shows its Strengths

May 7, 2020 · Desktop Metal's Jonah Myerberg on how 3D printing helps companies respond quickly during a crisis.

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Other Voices: In times of social distancing, essential businesses turn to autonomous robots

May 5, 2020 · Warehousing, logistics, and manufacturing companies look to autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) to operate efficiently while maintaining the social distancing guidelines.

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Maker Mask’s COVID-19 Response Network Delivers NIH-Approved Protective Masks Worldwide

May 1, 2020 · Community-based 3D printing makers mobilize to solve PPE shortage amidst crisis.

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How the Pandemic Could Remake Supply Chain’s Digital Future

April 28, 2020 · The need to embrace the digital transformation (DT) of supply chains remains critically important for companies, but as is the case in most areas of business, it is being shaped by the COVID-19 crisis.

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Origin 3D-Printed COVID-19 Test Swabs Clinical Trial Completed

April 28, 2020 · Company ramps production of millions of test swabs in the coming weeks.

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UPS Flight Forward and CVS to Launch Residential Drone Delivery Service in Florida

April 27, 2020 · UPS subsidiary UPS Flight Forward will use drones to deliver prescription medicines from a CVS pharmacy to The Villages, Florida for the largest U.S. retirement community home, to more than 135,000 residents.

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MakerCause Launches to Create 3D Printing Collaboration Network

April 24, 2020 · Group partners with MaketheMasks to support COVID-19 efforts.

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EnvisionTEC to 3D Print Mass Quantities of Nasopharyngeal Swabs

April 23, 2020 · Swabs to be printed for COVID-19 testing based on successful clinical trial.

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Kia Motors Producing Protective Face Shields At U.S. Manufacturing Plant

April 22, 2020 · Assembly of PPE at Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia expands Kia's "Accelerate the Good" efforts to help people impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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PTC’s Onshape Teams Up With FIRST For Design Competition

April 17, 2020 · FIRST, a nonprofit that offers robotics competitions for students primary/secondary students, has partnered with PTC for a virtual design competition.

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Robotic Research Uses Innovations to Assist Healthcare in COVID-19 Crisis

April 17, 2020 · DC-area engineering firm produces reusable face shields for region's hospitals, offers sterile 3D printer patent for COVID applications globally.

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AMUG Names AM / 3D Printing Programs Supporting COVID-19 Response

April 16, 2020 · AMUG reports that many organizations have asked how they can help.

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Workforce Shortages, Uncertainty May Cause 5G Network Infrastructure Revenue to Drop Up to 10% in 2020

April 14, 2020 · ABI Research whitepaper identifies the short-and long-term impacts the global pandemic will have on 5G and mobile network infrastructure.

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Lubrizol’s Powder TPU for 3D Printing Passes Skin Sensitization Tests

April 14, 2020 · This enables ESTANE 3D TPU M95A to be a material solution for product designers exploring 3DP for end-use applications that require skin contact.

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Teaching Additive Manufacturing Under Lockdown

April 13, 2020 · Penn State University Professor, Dr. Guha Manogharan, uses virtual machines and simulation software to continue advanced additive manufacturing instruction. Guha teaches a graduate lab course on metal additive manufacturing and design.

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Can You Teach Additive Manufacturing Under Lockdown?

April 13, 2020 · Penn State University Professor uses virtual machines, simulation software to continue advanced AM instruction.

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GlobalData: Industrial automation paying the price for failing to think big and invest bigger

April 13, 2020 · Despite much hype over the years, advanced factory automation has not been substituted for human workers at scale.

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NIST Debuts Manufacturing USA National Emergency Assistance Program

April 10, 2020 · NIST will award the grants through the NIST Manufacturing USA National Emergency Assistance Program with no requirements for cost matching.

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Materialise Develops 3D Printed Oxygen Mask to Address Shortage of Ventilators

April 6, 2020 · Solution brought to hospitals quickly and in full compliance with safety regulations.

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America Makes Launches Next Phase in COVID-19 Response

April 2, 2020 · Additive manufacturers can now upload 3D print designs to be reviewed and placed on the NIH 3D Print Exchange.

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