Case study into the successful emergency production and certification of a filtering facepiece respirator for Belgian hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic
| Autor: | Thomas Peeters, Andres Vanhooydonck, Robin Vandormael, Sam Smedts, Lore Veelaert, Stijn Verwulgen, Marieke Van Camp, Drim Stokhuijzen, Regan Watts, Jouke Verlinden, Sander Van Goethem, Joren Van Loon, Jochen Vleugels |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0209 industrial biotechnology
business.product_category Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Economics Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Economic shortage 02 engineering and technology Certification Article Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 020901 industrial engineering & automation Pandemic 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Production (economics) Operations management Respirator Personal protective equipment Agile development ComputingMethodologies_COMPUTERGRAPHICS Rapid prototyping COVID-19 Product development Hardware and Architecture Control and Systems Engineering 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing Business Nimble manufacturing Engineering sciences. Technology Software |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Manufacturing Systems Journal of manufacturing systems |
| ISSN: | 0278-6125 |
| Popis: | Graphical abstract The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic presented European hospitals with chronic shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) such as surgical masks and respirator masks. Demand outstripped the production capacity of certified European manufacturers of these devices. Hospitals perceived emergency local manufacturing of PPE as an approach to reduce dependence on foreign supply. The fact of a pandemic does not circumvent the hospital’s responsibility to provide appropriate protective equipment to their staff, so the emergency production needed to result in devices that were certified by testing agencies. This paper is a case study of the emergency manufacturing of respirator masks during the first month of the first wave of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and is separated into two distinct phases. Phase A describes the three-panel folding facepiece respirator design, material sourcing, performance testing, and an analysis of the folding facepiece respirator assembly process. Phase B describes the redevelopment of individual steps in the assembly process |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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