A Novel Mechanical Ventilator Designed for Mass Scale Production

Re:A Novel Mechanical Ventilator Designed for Mass Scale Pro... by ccsnags on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @07:24AM (#22683578)

3D printing becomes more viable as people use it. Right now it is pretty niche, but many groups are doing it on an industrial scale.

If every household or building had one, the parts could be crowdsourced from every machine that could make them.

The difference between where 3D printing and injection molding technology is right now is that 3D printers have scaled down in size and cost to the point of consumers being regular folks.

As for right now, 3D printing can help but it won’t be the savior of mankind.

Yet

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Re:A Novel Mechanical Ventilator Designed for Mass Scale Pro... by peteradio on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @10:22AM (#22684766)

Is there no such thing as a chain of custody for parts manufacturing? Crowd sourcing plastic parts from printers seems beyond naive. Do you know what goes into design of plastic molds or the repeatability and tolerances required? How do you quality control parts created from layers of hot glue? Plastic molded parts can rely on fundamental chemical understanding and tuned parameters of a molding machine.

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