Volunteer effort uses 3D printers to make face shields for area medical professionals

Beyond helping health care workers, the volunteers are learning key business lessons in efficiency and teamwork.

  • By Grier Ferguson
  • | 2:00 p.m. April 30, 2020
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Courtesy. Michael Guinn, a biomedical engineer and subject matter expert in 3D printing for the U.S. Department of Defense, provided 14 3D printers for the project.
Courtesy. Michael Guinn, a biomedical engineer and subject matter expert in 3D printing for the U.S. Department of Defense, provided 14 3D printers for the project.
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It's not only companies that are rising to meet manufacturing demands of the coronavirus crisis. Volunteers are doing it too, and some are using businesslike principles, including a focus on efficiency and maximizing production.

One such effort in Tampa Bay, dubbed MRG 3D, uses 3D printers to make face shields for area medical professionals and first responders.

 

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