5. Additive manufacturing and Covid-19

"The crisis highlights the acuteness of the challenges. Added to this is the growing awareness of the domination of Chinese and American industrial giants, revealing the crucial importance of controlling our supply chains and the major technical processes that condition our lives..." . Outside this general framework, confinements, temporary business closures, redundancies, supply crises, partial deconfinements, exhaustion of medical staff, lack of care materials and masks to protect against the virus, loss of bearings and confidence, etc. were among the problems to be dealt with during the first phase of the pandemic. On the one hand, this disrupted and deprived world allowed the emergence of...