MIT Technology Review March 27, 2020
Digital manufacturers are stepping in to crank out nasal swabs, ventilator parts, and more as critical supply chains fail.
In normal times, Formlabs sells 3D printers, not 3D-printed products.
But in the coming days, the company will dedicate the 250 printers in its Ohio factory—usually used to manufacture dental product samples to market its machines—to crank out up to 100,000 nasal swabs for Covid-19 tests every day.
The company will soon begin shipping the swabs to hospitals across the country that have been struggling to obtain the necessary tools and kits to diagnose a crush of patients amid the coronavirus outbreak, including Northwell Health in New York City and Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Florida.
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