Here's how old-school manufacturers learned to make ventilators—virtually overnight:
to make simpler emergency devices. As companies were reconfiguring their factories to help, the Trump Administration issued an executive order on March 18 explicitly identifying ventilators as a national priority under the Defense Production Act to speed things up.
“We are now seeing an increase in the supply of available ventilators being rapidly deployed to those areas with the greatest need,” Dr. Tom Frieden, the former chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and now CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, explained by email. But, he noted, gaps remained. By May, if all goes according to plan, these new production efforts could be pushing out thousands of ventilators with production continuing to crank up through June and July.
On April 3, just eight days after meeting the Airon team, Ford received the okay from the FDA under its emergency-use authorization program. That weekend, the Ford team worked to analyze the parts and figure out where they could source them, a key issue as a shortage in any component can create a bottleneck and an area where Ford with its deep supply chain brings advantages. “One of the benefits here...
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