NHS visor production

In order to support the NHS through the COVID-19 crisis, four members of staff from the Design and Technology department have not only produced over 900 visors based to the specification sent by NHS Harrow Clinical Commissioning Group, but have also redesigned the process to reduce production time from four and a half hours to about 50 minutes.

Aims

The aims of the project were to support the NHS by producing multi-use, sterilisable visors for medics treating COVID-19 patients.

Resources

Four members of teaching staff worked in rotation in school, using the School's laser cutter and 3D printer, to create the visors.

As well as producing the visors, they also cut down production time to around 50 minutes each on the 3D printer and two minutes each on the laser cutter, thus significantly increasing production. Not satisfied with that, the team constantly reviewed and amended the design to perfect the fit, ease the assembly of them and reduce material costs.

Impact

To date the team has produced 620 visors for NHS Harrow using a mixture of 3D printed and laser cut designs and another 85 visors using the 3D printed designs which were delivered to Lister Hospital. In addition, 235 3D printed and laser cut visors are due to be delivered to Hemel Hempstead Hospital. Extra materials have now arrived and they hope to produce a further 200 visors on the laser cutter.