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CEO Puts Workers’ Safety First & Foremost with Wearable Tech Products

3D-Generation Company Owner Trains to Retain

Just a few weeks ago, Alex Frost was looking to disrupt the floral industry, building a robotic arm to arrange roses, tulips and hyacinths. Today, he’s trying to solve a more dire problem: how to design and rapidly mass produce an inexpensive ventilator to help ease shortages due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

For many people, it would be a dream job. Spending your days making small batch artisanal whiskey, gin and vodka. But as COVID-19 swept across the country, J.P. Jerome, co-owner and founder of Detroit City Distillery, and his team became an integral part of the nation’s defense.

Masks may get all the attention during the current COVID-19 crisis, however for healthcare workers on the front lines critical PPE means more than just masks. Need, opportunity and ingenuity combined when some healthcare workers in Pauls Valley, Okla., told their spouses—who worked at Covercraft Industries LLC—that they couldn’t get the medical gowns necessary for protection from COVID-19.

As the current health crisis threatens the livelihood of manufacturers around the country, an idea for masks from a team member at Envision Dallas, which predominantly employs people with blindness or visual impairments, has helped the organization flourish.

Responding to the COVID-19 crisis, a company known for developing cooling devices develops a novel approach to protecting workers from aerosol pathogens.

As COVID-19 drove stay at home orders, at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry more than just future dentists enrolled in their dental education programs felt the impact. The Detroit-based school is dedicated to serving the City of Detroit and surrounding communities through their clinic and outreach programs.

Teaching Craftsmanship of Machining is Alfred Lyon’s Passion

Doctor Pioneers Novel Use for Additive Manufacturing to Save Lives