{"id":38762,"date":"2018-09-28T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/?p=38762"},"modified":"2018-09-27T14:28:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T18:28:50","slug":"designing-for-disaster-relief-field-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2018\/09\/designing-for-disaster-relief-field-ready.html","title":{"rendered":"Designing for Disaster  Relief &#8211; Field Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-38768 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/field-ready-still018-sm-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/field-ready-still018-sm-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/field-ready-still018-sm-2-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/field-ready-still018-sm-2-615x302.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What happens when a category 5 hurricane makes landfall where you live? In September 2017, the people of St Thomas and the U.S. Virgin Islands endured such wrath not once but twice in 10 days. As I witnessed three months after the storm, the results were devastating.<\/p>\n<p>SOLIDWORKS sponsored an eye-opening documentary video\u00a0about an organization called <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fieldready.org\/\">Field Ready<\/a>,<\/strong> a non-profit humanitarian organization that responds to crises worldwide when disaster strikes.\u00a0 With as little as 72-hours\u2019 notice, the engineers from Field Ready mobilize into the field where they create on-the-spot solutions to get critical infrastructure back on-line.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NjSKpbbSoPY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this case, by teaming with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mybrothersworkshop.org\/\">My Brother\u2019s Workshop<\/a><\/strong>, a local organization that teaches disadvantaged youth life-changing skills, Field Ready ingeniously repurposed wind-tossed solar panels by designing new components with SOLIDWORKS, fabricating them with a 3D printer and assembling them within a matter of hours. Using the limited resources available, Field Ready was able to salvage solar panels into mobile charging stations so locals could power cell phones and register with FEMA.<\/p>\n<p>Believe me, for an island where 60 percent of residents still don\u2019t have power three months after the hurricane, this makes a big difference!<\/p>\n<p>While I was dispatched there to provide SOLIDWORKS technical support during the movie production, I could not be more proud of our company and the SOLIDWORKS community for not only helping people in need, but also for supporting a company like Field Ready, which tirelessly ventures into unknown challenges in the most difficult places in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Rarely have I seen a cause so worthy and people so capable to carry it out. Field Ready relies on donations to continue its missions, so please consider donating to this amazing non-profit venture: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fieldready.org\/donate\">https:\/\/www.fieldready.org\/donate<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how Field Ready ingeniously repurposed wind-tossed solar panels by designing new components with SOLIDWORKS, fabricating them with a 3D printer and assembling them within a matter of hours.<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2018\/09\/designing-for-disaster-relief-field-ready.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":302,"featured_media":38768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,3,26,826,14,18,2641],"tags":[2848,2838,19],"class_list":["post-38762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collaboration","category-community","category-customer-stories","category-dassault-systmes","category-design","category-solidworks","category-solidworks-2018","tag-disaster-relief","tag-field-ready","tag-solidworks-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/302"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}