Badger Shield: Pop-Up Supply Chain Answers PPE Shortage

Описание: When UW Hospital was unable to source enough face shields to protect their staff, they emailed the university maker space to ask if they could help. Maker space director Lennon Rodgers wanted to do something, but he knew it was important to find a solution that would scale.

Rodgers began prototyping and reached out to his friend Jesse Darley of the product design and innovation firm Delve and Brian Ellison of Midwest Prototyping to get their input. After some quick consultation with the hospital, they understood the face shield requirements and within a few days they had a successful, easy-to-assemble, hospital-approved design. The team delivered 1,000 face shields to UW Hospital but that's only the beginning of the story.

Badger Shield’s open-source design is available online to anyone along with links to suppliers. The impact has been worldwide thanks to an online form that is successfully connecting hospitals in need to participating nearby manufacturers. Could this rapid response pop-up model of design and manufacturing be the new normal?

Go, Badger Shield!

Do you need shields? Can you make shields? Same link: shield-net.org




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