key: cord-0840873-jch6vvty
authors: Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi
title: Digital Technologies-Enabled Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0 in the Post-COVID-19 Era: Lessons Learnt from a Pandemic
date: 2020-07-03
journal: Int J Environ Res Public Health
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17134785
sha: 9e71ac763c68dd0887c7f0238553ea59f80414f7
doc_id: 840873
cord_uid: jch6vvty

The "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Type 2" (SARS-CoV-2) has been identified as the infectious agent responsible for the generally mild but sometimes life-threatening communicable disease known as "Coronavirus Disease 2019" (COVID-19) [...].

with the subsequent need of performing different checks and trials to evaluate whether the product is properly functioning and working. Further shortcomings are given by regulatory aspects, like product certifications, which are quite challenging in the absence of an effective standardization of procedures. Moreover, even though 3D printing is an incredibly democratic technology, allowing anybody having a 3D printer to be part of big societal participatory projects (the so-called "citizen supply chain" project) [10] , "unified production coalitions" and "collaborative design networks" [1] , high quality of the product should be ensured. As such, there is an urgent need to establish stringent clinical safety criteria and high quality standards and protocols.

If all these issues are properly acknowledged and met, the pandemic can become the beginning of a new era and of a new society, more digitalized and more resilient to natural disasters and hazards.

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