{"id":10798,"date":"2020-03-27T10:46:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T09:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.advancedmanufacturingmadrid.com\/?p=10798"},"modified":"2025-06-16T13:44:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T11:44:01","slug":"por-que-la-impresion-3d-es-clave-en-la-crisis-sanitaria-del-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.advancedmanufacturingmadrid.com\/en\/2020\/03\/27\/por-que-la-impresion-3d-es-clave-en-la-crisis-sanitaria-del-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Why 3D Printing Is Key to the Covid-19 Health Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"10798\" class=\"elementor elementor-10798 elementor-10797\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-32b84cc7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"32b84cc7\" 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elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-96bedf9\" data-id=\"96bedf9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b2a69ff elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b2a69ff\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The coronavirus crisis has highlighted the need for Additive Manufacturing in the healthcare sector as a flexible and ideal solution for emergencies.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d4179de elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d4179de\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-411bc4a\" data-id=\"411bc4a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7d3baf0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7d3baf0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Producing faster, highlighting design, manufacturing on demand\u2026 These days, the advantages of 3D printing, already familiar to the industrial sector, are also surprising the healthcare sector.<\/p>\n<p>Hospitals and healthcare institutions are demanding materials so their professionals can continue treating the thousands of people infected with Covid-19 in Spain. These resources, in most cases, are insufficient and arrive only in dribs and drabs. Masks, respirators, visors, and so on, are now indispensable for healthcare workers at the end of their tether. Hence, 3D printing projects and initiatives have been launched to support the sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have already begun working with requests from hospitals desperately requesting materials,\u201d says Miguel \u00c1ngel Mora, engineer responsible for 3D Engineering Services at Grupo Solitium. He also explains that in terms of healthcare resources, designs and materials must meet certain requirements and have specific properties, and therefore not all technologies are proving to be efficient in this area.<\/p>\n<p>The 3D Solution<\/p>\n<p>3D printing has proven to be a fast and flexible solution for emergencies. \u201cIt allows many things to be manufactured quickly, prototypes, final parts\u2026 from PPE to respirators,\u201d says Adri\u00e1n Esta\u00fan, 3D Sales Director at Grupo Solitium. However, there are certain minimum qualities required for these parts to be considered useful in hospitals. \u201cFDM technology, for example, has proven inefficient for the manufacture of masks because it is not a watertight material and, therefore, allows the virus to pass through,\u201d explains Mora. \u201cIn this sense, the polyamide fusion technology used by HP&#8217;s Jet Fusion 3D technology is functional, as the resulting part is watertight, an essential property for this specific application,\u201d explains the Grupo Solitium engineer.<\/p>\n<p>Additive Manufacturing also adds strategic points because it allows for local design and manufacturing, which eliminates dependence on imports from other countries such as China. And in contingency plans like the one Spain is currently experiencing, it is essential to have technology that offers rapid, local solutions.<\/p>\n<p>However, producing medical supplies that are so necessary in hospitals right now using additive manufacturing is not easy. First, due to the lack of raw materials, but also due to the lack of all the prior analysis, design, and testing required in these cases. As is the case in the IT field, when designing contingency plans, it is essential to invest in servers, backups, and other proven systems. And in terms of Additive Manufacturing, the response to the health crisis should have been tested beforehand to consider its efficiency. Hence the need for investment in this technology.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, companies like Grupo Solitium have put their experts and engineers to work to provide solutions to requests coming in from hospitals, and currently, &#8220;we are already manufacturing support visors for protective screens. A part without regulatory commitment and that we can produce in both polyamide and other materials,&#8221; explains Mora. The engineer responsible for 3D Engineering Services at Grupo Solitium says he has already put 240 units of this visor into production per day on his own HP Jet Fusion equipment, and at some of his client companies that use this technology, such as InMake and Microdental.<\/p>\n<p>The need for 3D production of medical supplies these days is highlighting the effectiveness of this technology in emergencies. Therefore, healthcare systems, both public and private, must be prepared in this regard. But also, &#8220;we should standardize libraries of STL models (files for 3D printing) that everyone can use when needed,&#8221; argues Adri\u00e1n Esta\u00fan. An emergency like the current one will pass, but no one guarantees that something similar won&#8217;t happen again. 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