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<p>As the world continues to develop rapid responses to slow the spread of COVID-19,
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made
possible through technologies including 3-D printing (additive manufacturing) is
helping
in stop-gap supply provision for personal protective equipment (PPE) and other
needed-now goods.
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Desktop
Metal, Stratasys, and 3D System — coming to the fore of global efforts, is a
relatively
small company dedicated to desktop 3-D printers.
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In three days, Founder Josef Prusa and his team at Prusa Research
designed,
prototyped, verified, and began mass production of
medical-appropriate
face
shields with both 3-D printed and laser cut plastic components.
Approved
by
the Czech Ministry of Health — including Minister of Health Adam
Vojtech
—
the face shields moved quickly to field testing, full approval, and
large-scale production.</p>
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throughout Czechia. The design also spread at the speed of the
internet,
and
downloads in the thousands saw the design rapidly disseminated to
all
corners of the world.</p>
<p>Many makers have been inspired by the quick turnaround of digital
design
and
digital manufacturing to turn their own 3-D printers to use. There
are,
however, a right way and a lot of wrong ways to go about using 3-D
printing
to actually be helpful in the face of pandemic.
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<cite><strong>“It really is incredible. It is just eight days now, and our whole planet, all the 3-D printers are printing face shields. I would never have expected 3-D printing to act so quickly. It is wonderful,” Josef Prusa told me this week in a Skype interview. “I expect in a week or two, traditional supply will kick in for technologies for better manufacturing like injection molding, and then it will take like two weeks to start making them. Until then, the 3-D printing community can make a big impact. Today we will be finishing 20,000 face shields made just by us, basically in just a week. In our small country, it will have a big impact.”</strong></cite>
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<p>That big impact is not relegated to small countries; the face shield,
now
on
its third iteration, has been downloaded so many times the Prusa
team
had to
turn off their download counter to avoid overloading the servers.
“Before we turned it off, the face shield had about 101,000 downloads,”
Prusa said.
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<p>
Among those downloading the design have been individual makers doing
what
they can for their local communities’ needs as well as large-scale
enterprises. This weekend, the University of Michigan approved the
Prusa
design for its medical equipment donation drive. The Prusa logo is
also
visible on the face shields that the team at Ford has been creating
using
its in-house 3-D printer fleet; Ford has announced the intent to
produce
75,000 face shields in its first week of such production.</p>
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<p>These face shields are a major help in the global scramble for
appropriate
PPE, which is in short supply. While many 3-D printing efforts first
turned
to face masks or parts for respirators, many such designs to appear
could do
more harm than good with a false sense of security or dangerous
ineffectiveness. Validating good designs that can be effectively
created
and
provide actual safeguards from the spread of the novel coronavirus
is
critical. The value of 3-D printing is the ability to fill such
needs
now,
while traditional manufacturing ramps up its response to the mass
supplies
needed.
</p>
<p>Prusa’s team was uniquely positioned to step in to create an
effective
design. Recently labelled as one of Deloitte’s fastest-growing
companies
in
the EMEA region, around 200,000 Prusa 3-D printers have been shipped
worldwide. Prusa Research also maintains expertise in design,
offering a
repository of 3-D printable design files. Building upon a face
shield
design
they found to improve it for safety and comfort, the Prusa design
team
went
through iterations and verification rounds with the Czech Minister
of
Health
before releasing the file. Turning all of their printers to this one
purpose, rather than for 3-D printing parts for new 3-D printers
(about
30%
of each Prusa 3-D printer is 3-D printed on Prusa 3-D printers; say
that
three times fast), their in-house print farm of about 600 3-D
printer
started making 800 shields per day, quickly ramping up to 3,000 per
day.
</p>
<p>As the design spreads and more 3-D printers around the world are
churning
out
thousands of these face shields, Prusa is making sure to include
necessary
cautions regarding the production of any PPE to be donated.
</p>
<p>“Even though you are quarantined at home it does not mean you are not
infected. Any equipment you want to give hospitals, you need to act like
you’re infected, and use at least a face mask while around the printers.
We know when the print is finished that it is sterile because of the
high printing temperatures. When you touch it, you should always put on
sterile gloves, or at least use a new plastic bag and grab the part
through the plastic bag so there is the least amount of possibility of
contaminating the part. Everyone should always consult with the hospital
or the people they are giving it to about their production environment
so it is safe. Always, they will need to sterilize or disinfect in the
hospital before they actually use it,”
Prusa cautions.
</p>
<p>Upping the standards for their design, the Prusa team has worked with
labs in
Czechia to ensure effectiveness against the exact virus plaguing the
world.
“They have live COVID cultures,” Prusa explained of the
labs,
“so we are now testing ways to safely sterilize with this in the field.
We should be having some guides and verified tests from the labs in
upcoming days so we can guide the community what to do, tell doctors
what really works when working with infected patients.”
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Educating the community is key for all the homegrown efforts to bring
3-D
printers to help. </p>
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</figure><p>Prusa himself is very active on Twitter, often
reaching
out when he sees photos of face shields made but just lying on the
floor;
“I try to send information on how to do it safely,”
Prusa
says.
“Many people we worked with previously with medical facilities, and we
have loads of printers around the world, so we have thought about these
things, but if you are a maker at home you may not have thought about it
before.”
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<p>Looking beyond the face shields, the team at Prusa Research is also
in
early
stages of exploring designs for goggles with indirect ventilation.
These
goggles will require more work before their verification and file
release,
but represent another step forward in makeable, useful PPE. Prusa
Research
has also been running contests for other designs outside of safety
gear
that
requires verification, such as
“stuff like how to open doors safely without touching the doorknob, or
stuff you might run out of if you are at home and cannot go to a shop,”
Prusa says.
</p>
<p>Preparation has been key to Prusa Research’s approach to the current
conditions. Prusa released a blog about why it’s “important to be
two
steps
ahead,” detailing his team’s efforts to operate safely — which have
been
quite effective, as they have to date had zero cases of COVID-19
among
their
nearly 500 employees. From turning their polymer lab to making 1,000
liters
of sanitizer to requiring thermal temperature checks before coming
into
work
to adding a pause between manufacturing shifts to sterilize the
factory,
Prusa’s efforts are to be lauded as the company continues to set an
example
for 3-D printing companies today.
</p>
<p>While he is also fighting the potential for normalcy bias in
recognizing
that
relatively severe measures will have to remain in place for some
time,
and
“business as normal” is still quite some ways off, Prusa is keen to
look
ahead for both his company and the broader 3-D printing industry.
</p>
<p>Life after the pandemic won’t look the same, that’s simply a given.
But
for
Prusa Research, preparation is key to moving forward for that new
normal.
There is also hope to be seen — a silver lining that 3-D printing
may
step
more into the mainstream, and this time without the hype.
</p>
<p>“This is a chance for our desktop 3-D community to show as a mature
community, not just a bunch of nerds printing toys,”
Prusa said with a grin.
“For 3-D printing, I think this shows a lot of people that it has a lot
of use… This will be a marathon, and I think it might be actually a time
for 3-D printers to finally rise because the economics will be cooled
down all around the place, I think we can agree on that. And then the
3-D printers are very useful — in right to repair movements, to replace
parts, or just to manufacture stuff cheaply, as we have, for example. We
have a lot of parts in medical labs. For some uses you have a single-use
medical tray that can cost hundreds of euros, but can print it for less.
3-D printing can be very efficient.”
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<p>Got something to add?</p><p>We’d <em>love</em> to hear!</p>
<div class="form-row form-group text-center col-auto">
<input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Your Name" name="full_name" id="fname" aria-label="form" required />
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<input
type="email"
class="form-control"
placeholder="Your Email Address"
name="email_address"
id="email"
required
aria-describedby="emailHelp"
aria-label="email input form"
/>
<small id="emailHelp" class="form-text text-muted"
>We'll never share your email with anyone else.</small>
</div>
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<textarea
class="form-control"
rows="2"
placeholder="Your Message"
name="your_message"
id="message"
required
aria-label="text-box for message"
></textarea>
</div>
<div
class="form-row form-group col-auto d-flex justify-content-start align-items-center text-center">
<input
type="checkbox"
class="form-check-input"
id="newsletter-check"
name="newsletter"
checked
aria-label="checkbox for newsletter sign-up"
/>
<label class="form-check-label" for="newsletter-check"
>Add me to the mailing list!</label>
</div>
<div class="form-row form-group justify-content-center col-auto">
<input type="submit" class="btn btn-outline-primary" aria-label="submit form button">
</div>
</form>
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