Manufacturers Unite in Fight Against Covid-19

THE WOODLANDS, USA - The lack of personal protection equipment (PPE) is one of the biggest challenges facing doctors, nurses, and first responders in the fight against Covid-19. To this end, manufacturing companies from all around the world are doing their best to provide them the PPEs they need to help save lives, including their own.

Global Shop Solutions has been offering unrelenting support to manufacturing companies to be heroes in this endeavor. Its ERP software provides the applications needed to deliver a quality part on time, every time from quote to cash and everything in between including shop management, scheduling, inventory, accounting, quality control, CRM and more. Its headquarters in The Woodlands, Texas includes a state-of-the-art R&D facility and Global Shop Solutions training center. Through its offices in the US, Mexico, Indonesia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, the company supports thousands of manufacturing facilities in over 25 countries and nearly 30 industries.

Making foam strips to save lives

Powered by Global Shop Solutions, Milcut, Inc., BHI and Germfree are a few manufacturers that are doing all they can to meet the demand. Based in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, Milcut fabricates foam, rubber, plastic and high-temperature materials. At the urgent request of customers, the company began making foam strips for the plastic splash shield that goes on protective face masks. These strips are not one of its standard products. Yet, within three days of receiving the first order, it shipped 15,000 of them.
Milcut then connected with Operation MaskForce, a local effort linked to colleges, hospitals and businesses, and began producing filters for canister masks, a more sophisticated type of protective mask used in hospitals.

An act of kindness for the frontlines
When Javier Castro, CEO, Bazz Houston International (BHI), a metal forming manufacturer, learned of the serious shortage of protective face masks in local hospitals, he didn’t hesitate. Quickly teaming up with two other Orange County, CA-based companies, he launched an immediate effort to design and manufacture face shields for doctors and nursing staff at local emergency rooms, a product the company had never made before.

BHI then began donating the face shields to local hospitals and emergency responders at no cost, and word of mouth quickly spread. When Sony™ learned of the donations, it began covering the cost of shipping the face shields to other states around the country.

Making it safe to study the virus

Germfree, a global manufacturer of mobile laboratories, has been providing remote on-site response capabilities for decades. As regional epidemics grew into a global pandemic, the need for bio-containment space skyrocketed. In response, the company significantly expanded its factory capacity while offering expertise to industry partners also trying to fulfill the unmet need.

Germfree built, delivered, and installed the mobile bio-containment lab in Singapore that was the first in the region to isolate COVID-19. In addition to ramping up deployment of mobile cleanroom containment units, the company is also developing new techniques for remote monitoring of critical controls.

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