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When it comes to shifting production to aid in the COVID-19 pandemic, challenges can exist even if the product isn’t a sharp deviation from products you normally manufacture. That’s what Kentwood, Mich.-based Autocam Medical discovered.

The next time you’re out fertilizing the lawn or spraying for weeds, stop for a moment to think about Claudia Contreras. She deserves a round of applause. So do her coworkers. Contreras and her team have produced nearly 600,000 face shields for COVID-19 first responders over the past five months, with more in the works.

As COVID-19 spread across the United States, states found themselves in need of producing and sourcing critically needed supplies. In Ohio, that was aided by the Ohio Manufacturing Alliance to Fight COVID-19 - leveraging Ohio’s tremendous manufacturing capabilities for the production of everything from mechanical ventilators to disposable gowns.

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 personal protective equipment became scarce for hospitals at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, two doctors had an idea to convert snorkeling masks to be used as emergency filtering face masks. PTC and others helped bring their vision to reality.

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a surging need for medical and personal protective equipment. But it’s not just enough to make the needed equipment and supplies, you also have to get it to where it’s needed most. For rural America, resources are limited, medical facilities are few and far between, and the infrastructure to supply them is lacking.

With an urgent shortage of PPE caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, a team of faculty, staff and students from Oklahoma State University College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology’s (CEAT) ENDEAVOR lab quickly worked to prototype and manufacture protective masks and face shields that were donated throughout the state of Oklahoma.