General Motors and Ventec to produce ventilators
31 Mar 2020|467 views
Ventec Life Systems announced General Motors (GM) will build critical care ventilators at GM's Kokomo, Indiana manufacturing facility with Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared ventilators scheduled to ship as soon as next month.
This effort is in addition to Ventec taking aggressive steps to ramp up production at their manufacturing facility in Bothell, Washington.
Across all manufacturers, there is a global backorder of critical care ventilators capable of supporting patients fighting COVID-19. The companies are increasing thousands of units of new capacity with expanded supply chain to support high volume production.
Ventec and GM are working around the clock to meet the urgent need for more ventilators. Efforts to set up tooling and manufacturing capacity at the GM Kokomo facility are already underway to produce Ventec's critical care ventilator, VOCSN, which stands for its five functions, 'Ventilation, Oxygen, Cough, Suction, Nebuliser'.
The Ventec Life Systems team has a history of patient-centric design which includes more than 18 care-changing respiratory devices and more than 40 patents. Ventec's leading product, VOCSN, is the first and only Multi-Function Ventilator that seamlessly integrates five separate devices into a portable device and was FDA cleared in 2017.
In a separate effort, GM is expanding its support of medical equipment production by temporarily converting its Warren, Michigan plant to build Level 1 surgical masks. Production will begin next week and within two weeks ramp up to 50,000 masks per day, with the potential to increase to 100,000 per day.
This employee-led initiative was created, planned and approved in about 48 hours and involves GM's traditional supply base as well as new partnerships specific to the medical device industry.
GM will be collaborating with governments and local suppliers to distribute the masks.
Ventec Life Systems announced General Motors (GM) will build critical care ventilators at GM's Kokomo, Indiana manufacturing facility with Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared ventilators scheduled to ship as soon as next month.
This effort is in addition to Ventec taking aggressive steps to ramp up production at their manufacturing facility in Bothell, Washington.
Across all manufacturers, there is a global backorder of critical care ventilators capable of supporting patients fighting COVID-19. The companies are increasing thousands of units of new capacity with expanded supply chain to support high volume production.
Ventec and GM are working around the clock to meet the urgent need for more ventilators. Efforts to set up tooling and manufacturing capacity at the GM Kokomo facility are already underway to produce Ventec's critical care ventilator, VOCSN, which stands for its five functions, 'Ventilation, Oxygen, Cough, Suction, Nebuliser'.
The Ventec Life Systems team has a history of patient-centric design which includes more than 18 care-changing respiratory devices and more than 40 patents. Ventec's leading product, VOCSN, is the first and only Multi-Function Ventilator that seamlessly integrates five separate devices into a portable device and was FDA cleared in 2017.
In a separate effort, GM is expanding its support of medical equipment production by temporarily converting its Warren, Michigan plant to build Level 1 surgical masks. Production will begin next week and within two weeks ramp up to 50,000 masks per day, with the potential to increase to 100,000 per day.
This employee-led initiative was created, planned and approved in about 48 hours and involves GM's traditional supply base as well as new partnerships specific to the medical device industry.
GM will be collaborating with governments and local suppliers to distribute the masks.
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