Photo caption: Face shield produced on 3D Systems’ technology to help address the PPE shortage. Image Courtesy 3D Systems. Article by Jim Vinoski.
The coronavirus threw a wet blanket on economic growth the world over, and at least temporarily slammed the brakes on a manufacturing sector that had already been slowing for months. But a silver lining was the remarkable response by manufacturers to the supply chain breakdowns and shortages in the medical products market. Thousands of producers quickly revamped their factories in order to help make critically-needed medical supplies. And if there’s a single technology that was the star of those efforts, it was 3-D printing. […]