Can Distributed Manufacturing De-Risk the Global Healthcare Supply Chain?

Summary

Learn how hospitals around the world repurposed on-site 3D printers to quickly respond to a worldwide shortage of COVID testing and protective equipment. Join Formlabs to hear how medical device manufacturers, hospitals, and other organizations are using additive manufacturing as a bridge until traditional manufacturers can meet unprecedented global demand.

Gaurav leads Healthcare at Formlabs, a market-leading 3D printing company that enables clinicians and medical device companies to create patient-specific preoperative planning models, orthoses, and surgical devices.

Contributing Editor Michael C. Anderson has been covering manufacturing technologies since 2006. He was the founding editor of SME's Aerospace & Defense Manufacturing Yearbook and Medical Manufacturing Yearbook and, until 2016, a senior editor of Manufacturing Engineering magazine. He has also written for Cutting Tool Engineering, Automotive Design & Manufacturing, and other publications. His most recent features can be found in SME's 2020 Medical Additive Manufacturing Yearbook and Aerospace & Defense Manufacturing Yearbook, and in the September 2020 issue of Manufacturing Engineering.