Resilient and agile engineering solutions to address societal challenges such as coronavirus pandemic |
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| Authors: | Saurav Goel Sara Hawi Gaurav Goel Vijay Kumar Thakur Anupam Agrawal Clare Hoskins Oliver Pearce Tanvir Hussain Hari M Upadhyaya Graham Cross Asa H Barber |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Engineering, London South Bank University, 103 Borough Road, London, SE10AA, UK;2. School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing, Cranfield University, Bedford, MK43 0AL, UK;3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Shiv Nadar University, Gautam Budh Nagar, 201314, India;4. Biorefining and Advanced Materials Research Center, Scotland''s Rural College (SRUC), Kings Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JG, UK;5. Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA;6. Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G1 1RD, UK;7. Orthopaedic Department, Milton Keynes University Hospital, MK65 LD, UK;8. Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK;9. Adama Innovations Limited, Dublin 2, Ireland;10. CRANN Nanoscience Institute, School of Physics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland |
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| Abstract: | The world is witnessing tumultuous times as major economic powers including the US, UK, Russia, India, and most of Europe continue to be in a state of lockdown. The worst-hit sectors due to this lockdown are sales, production (manufacturing), transport (aerospace and automotive) and tourism. Lockdowns became necessary as a preventive measure to avoid the spread of the contagious and infectious “Coronavirus Disease 2019” (COVID-19). This newly identified disease is caused by a new strain of the virus being referred to as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome CoronaVirus 2 (SARS CoV-2; formerly called 2019-nCoV). We review the current medical and manufacturing response to COVID-19, including advances in instrumentation, sensing, use of lasers, fumigation chambers and development of novel tools such as lab-on-the-chip using combinatorial additive and subtractive manufacturing techniques and use of molecular modelling and molecular docking in drug and vaccine discovery. We also offer perspectives on future considerations on climate change, outsourced versus indigenous manufacturing, automation, and antimicrobial resistance. Overall, this paper attempts to identify key areas where manufacturing can be employed to address societal challenges such as COVID-19. |
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| Keywords: | SARS CoV-2 Manufacturing Sensing Climate change Nanotechnology PPE |
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