PPE From Promess Helps Dental Students Complete Training
The COVID-19 pandemic shut down the University of Detroit’s dental education programs earlier this year. Reopening them depended, in part, on securing adequate supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE) to keep the students safe. Given the worldwide shortage of PPE, that was not an easy challenge to overcome.
At the same time, a group of employees at Promess Inc. were assembling an ad hoc team of management, assembly and mechanical engineering personnel with the goal of finding a way to produce PPE for local hospitals, first responders, dentists, traveling nurses, homeless shelters and nursing homes in Southeastern Michigan. That was not part of their regular skill set as manufacturers of high-tech assembly systems and components, but they were determined to make it happen. And, with the support of Promess management, they did.