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From: Zach Fredin <zach.fredin@cba.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 10:38:51 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] updated status

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 ![mfg_tool](img/url_tool.jpg)
 
+## status
+This project has been shelved as face shield mass manufacturing scaled up faster than expected. The method is still relevant for quick-turn pilot scale runs of thin plastic products.
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 ## need
 As part of our covid-19 face shield production efforts, we need to permanently mark units that end up in hospitals with a few basic identifiers: a manufacturing batch number and a shortened URL for assembly instructions. The Zund needs to spend its time cutting rather than marking, and doctors have complained about the smell of laser-engraved text.
 
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