Transactions on Additive Manufacturing Meets Medicine
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2020): Trans. AMMM
Implementation of Design for Additive Manufacturing in rapid product development.
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Abstract
Attempts to contain and prevent the spread of 2020’s CoVID-19 pandemic resulted in major supply-chain limitations. Additive manufacturing provided a potential solution through which the manufacturing of critically needed medical equipment could be facilitated. Whilst this led to innovative initiatives with potentially feasible/beneficial outcomes, some solutions did not account for the limitations of the technology. Here a case study is put forward in which a Design for Additive Manufacturing approach is taken for the feasible development of an automated AMBU-bag based ventilator.