Manufacturing How COVID-19 Is Shifting the Supply Chain—Think Less Global, More Regional by Taz Khatri How will COVID-19 impact the global supply chain? One outcome—already in motion before the pandemic—is a less global, more regional world, which may have positive payoffs for climate change.
Manufacturing Injection-Mold Cooling and Generative Design Save Panasonic Engineers’ Sanity by Yasuo Matsunaka A new Panasonic initiative uses generative design to automatically design injection mold–cooling water pipes, thus greatly reducing the burden on human designers.
Manufacturing Generative Design: Redefining What’s Possible in the Future of Manufacturing [E-book] by Missy Roback In this e-book, learn how early adopters of generative design—including well-known brands, start-ups, and makers—are helping to redefine the future of manufacturing.
The Real Life Luthier Rachel Rosenkrantz’s Quarantine Daily Routine Keeps Her Strumming Along by Redshift Video In this video, master luthier Rachel Rosenkrantz shares her quarantine daily routine and talks about the new skills she’s picked up while sheltering in place.
Manufacturing Lamborghini and Others Race to Save COVID-19 Patients With Ventilator Production by Friederike Voigt Prototyping experts have become masters of restructuring in European factories, and now ventilator production is happening where cars are usually built.
Manufacturing From Fighting Fashion-Industry Waste to Making PPE: Detroit Sewing to the Rescue by Kimberly Holland In response to COVID-19, a nonprofit focused on fashion-industry waste has pivoted to coordinating a massive mask-and-gown initiative in the resurgent manufacturing hub of Detroit.
Manufacturing 99% Invisible Podcast: History of Face Masks and the Power of PPE in Pandemics by Kylee Swenson Listen to this 99% Invisible podcast in partnership with Autodesk about the history of face masks in past pandemics and how manufacturing companies are helping during COVID-19.
Manufacturing Meeting the Need for 3D-Printed PPE Means Mastering Distributed Manufacturing by Peter Dorfman Toronto General Hospital’s APIL unit has mobilized small fabrication shops and amateur makers to mass-produce regulatory-approved, 3D-printed PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Manufacturing How an Industrial X-Ray Machine Company Sees Into Its Digital Future by Friederike Voigt A world leader in its market, the industrial X-ray machine and systems company VisiConsult relies on digital innovations to transform its family business.
