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Oct 12, 20182 min read
Disaster Risk Reduction Technical Paper Excerpt
Trends in disaster impacts – lower mortality, but higher cost Over the past decades, number of disaster events across the world have...


Nov 16, 20171 min read
Digital Technologies for Resilience
Andrew Lamb, Field Ready Innovation Advisor attended the Digital Technologies for Resilience Workshop November 14-15, 2017 in Bangkok....


Nov 9, 20172 min read
Hydroponic Farming in Syria
In North Syria, nearly two million children under the age of five were in need of nutritional services in 2016. With the war still...


Nov 7, 20171 min read
Exponential Medicine Conference
Field Ready's Dara Dotz recently spoke at the Exponential Medicine conference in San Diego, California. The conference is an immersive,...

Jul 18, 20173 min read
What might a local manufacturing kit look like?
What might a local manufacturing kit look like? What's in the box? This depends on what we are trying to make and where. We've been...


Apr 11, 20172 min read
Why we're using Kits to scale up local manufactuing
We've been thinking about our theory of change with help from the Humanitarian Innovation Fund recently, and this has helped us clarify...

Jan 11, 20172 min read
Scaling up local production: introducing our new 'kits' program
Field Ready enables our most useful designs to be replicated in other places; by anyone, anywhere and at anytime. This is done by...

Nov 8, 20163 min read
Measuring Material Tensile Strength
Have you ever tried to measure tensile strength for materials? Often, the process requires a test machine in a lab that could cost more...

Oct 12, 20162 min read
3D Printing Spare Parts for Vital Medical Equipment in the Field
Field Ready has worked in Nepal with Trishuli District Hospital to fix and maintain vital medical equipment using 3D printed parts. The...

Oct 11, 20161 min read
3D Printing Easy-to-Assemble Custom Antennas for Emergency Communications
HAM radio enthusiasts played an important role in the Nepal earthquake response, relaying important messages to the army and police...

Oct 4, 20162 min read
Making Water Pipe Fittings in the Field
In the recovery from the earthquake, aid agencies are working hard to rebuild water systems in communities. However, making an effective...

Sep 29, 20162 min read
Designing 3D Printable Medical Devices
Field Ready has been working with World Vision to start developing a catalogue of 3D printable medical items that can be made in Health...


Jul 20, 20162 min read
Iterative design of a set of 3D printed tweezers
What is it like to design a 3D printed part? We would like to share with you a recent example of the of the journey we take when...


Jul 7, 20161 min read
First Test of Pipe Fitting App for 3D Printing Means Safe Water Pipe Fittings in Nepal
Lack of available safe water pipe fittings is a key issue Field Ready has identified in Nepal. In IDP camps improvised pipe fittings were...


Jun 29, 20162 min read
Field Ready Speaks with MSF: Delhi Scientific Day & Toronto Logistics Conference
Recently Field Ready was invited to speak at two Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) conferences. The first was the Scientific Day held in...


Jun 17, 20161 min read
Injection molding used for mass production
Catastrophe can happen in the middle of the night…when tens of thousands of people need help, urgently. The earth shakes and people are...


Jun 12, 20161 min read
Champion of Change: Field Ready's Dara Dotz
We are deeply honored that our friend, co-founder and designer extraordinaire, Dara Dotz, is being recognized by the White House as a...


May 28, 20161 min read
Field Ready recognized in 'Top Five Innovations' at the World Humanitarian Summit
The World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul brought together over 5,000 people - aid workers, policy specialists, researchers, vendors,...


May 14, 20162 min read
Field Ready speaks at TEDx Adventures Patan 2016
On Friday 29th April 2016, TEDx Patan organized their first ever TEDx Adventures event in the Innovation Lab in Kathmandu. The event was...


May 10, 20162 min read
How modern manufacturing technology can benefit traditional crafts
In the immediate aftermath of an emergency, there is no question that the top priority is getting what is needed, where it is needed as...
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