Sheridan College’s Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Design Technologies (CAMDT) has answered the call to create personal protective equipment (PPE) for front-line healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers at CAMDT, located at Sheridan’s Davis Campus in Brampton, Ont., delivered a total of 1,900 certified and reusable face shields: 1,700…
Researchers at Lambton College’s Lambton Manufacturing Innovation Centre (LMIC) have answered the call for personal protective equipment (PPE) for front-line healthcare workers at Bluewater Health in Sarnia and Petrolia during the COVID-19 pandemic. After supply chains and equipment availability for PPE were disrupted during the early stages of the global…
Researchers at Fanshawe College are studying ways to stop the coronavirus’s spread in the body and reduce its inflammatory response – findings that could translate into an effective treatment for COVID-19, the infectious disease caused by SARS-CoV-2. Abdulla Mahboob, PhD, manager at Fanshawe’s Centre for Applied Research and Innovation in…
In the battle against the COVID-19 crisis, researchers at the Research & Innovation labs at Niagara College’s Walker Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Centre (WAMIC) continue supplying thousands of face shields to essential workers by producing hundreds of the PPE each day. Since the start of the effort in March to help…
In a world of innovative ideas, sometimes it makes more sense to reinvent the product, and not the entire wheel. Take dental implants, for example: the titanium screw that fuses to bone is the wheel, but everything else about the implant, the material and procedure can be redesigned and reinvented….
In the emerging industry of fabric sensing technology, one Toronto-based company has invented a revolutionary bed sheet that also functions as a patient health monitor, without the use of any wired attachments to the body. And they are praising a unique research collaboration for advancing their smart device to market….
Just as additive manufacturing is revolutionizing global health care, one collaborative company is set to help advance this life-improving medical technology right here in Canada. Using innovations in customized, digital technology, it will mean less time spent both in surgery and healing for patients. ADEISS (Additive Design in Surgical Solutions…
Great ideas are oftentimes born from the unlikeliest of places. However, if you are a plumbing fixture designer, tapping a revolutionary idea from a hospital sink is not as strange as it may seem. This was the case for Chris McLeod, who read a disturbing story a few years…
