When the epidemic in China was severe, SAIC-GM-Wuling quickly adjusted its automobile production line to produce masks in a short period of time, making a good contribution to the fight against the new crown virus.
March 22, 2020 The Antarctic Bear learned that Reuters recently reported that German automaker Volkswagen said it would join other manufacturers around the world to explore the use of3D printingTechnology manufactures scarce medical equipment such as hospital ventilators to fight the new coronavirus.
European governments are inviting automakers including Ford, General Motors, Ferrari and Nissan to ramp up production of ventilators and other equipment. These devices are desperately needed during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Medical equipment is a new field for us. But once we understand the needs and have a design, we can start manufacturing,” Volkswagen said, adding that prototype parts have been3D printingDone, testing materials and checking supply chain.
Volkswagen said in a statement on Friday that it had formed a task force to study how to exploit the3D printingto help manufacture hospital ventilators and other life-saving equipment.Volkswagen currently has more than 125 industrial3D printingmachine.
It is worth mentioning that General Motors, Skoda, Bentley of the ultra-luxury brand of Volkswagen Group, Porsche of Volkswagen and BMW have all expressed their assistance in making ventilators as much as possible:
- GM said it is working with Ventec Life Systems to enable the medical device maker to use the U.S. automaker’s logistics and expertise to make more ventilators.
- Porsche said it wanted to help with rescue efforts. Chief executive Oliver Blume said: “We are gathering ideas on our humanitarian aid.”
- BMW, the Munich, Germany-based automaker, said it was also ready to help.It says: “Use3D printingTechnical production parts are possible. “Antarctic bear added: BMW has been widely used in automobile research and development and manufacturing3D printingtechnology, and appeared on some production models.
- Volvo, Sweden, urges all governments to take the crisis equally seriously and adopt quarantine measures.
- In the UK, an engineering consortium including McLaren and Nissan has urgently developed a prototype ventilator that could be approved for use in hospitals in about a week.
- In Italy, Ferrari and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles have each negotiated cooperation with Siare Engineering, Italy’s largest ventilator maker, to help increase production of the equipment.
△ An employee working at Ventec Life Systems, working with General Motors GM to manufacture ventilators
For some parts of the casings of medical products, such as ventilator casings, temperature measuring gun casings, etc., in fact, as long as there are design documents, they can be produced anywhere in the world – instantly transmitted to any company in the world.3D printingThe factory of the machine is quickly produced and assembled into products for use in hospitals and other units. Flexible production and rapid manufacturing are very necessary in emergency situations, because using it in one day means that more people can be treated.
In addition, we noticed that due to the shortage of medical resources such as ventilators, someone on Facebook established an “Open Source COVID19 Medical Supplies”,
There are also a lot of open source ones that can be DIYed by yourself.3D printingDesigning Documents.Even the ventilator design files are open sourced
△ Design draft of a ventilator
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