Community-driven PPE production using additive manufacturing during the COVID-19 pandemic: Survey and lessons learned.

ABSTRACT: This study presents a detailed analysis of the production efforts for personal protective equipment in makerspaces and informal production spaces (i.e., community-driven efforts) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The focus of this study is on additive manufacturing (also known as 3D printing), which was the dominant manufacturing method employed in these production efforts. Production details from a variety of informal production efforts were systematically analyzed to quantify the scale and efficiency of different efforts. Data for this analysis was primarily drawn from detailed survey data from 74 individuals who participated in these different production efforts, as well as from a systematic review of 145 publicly available news stories. This rich dataset enable

SUBMITTER: Budinoff HD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8759144 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature