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Three of the nation’s largest companies will team up to mass produce
medical equipment to fight the novel coronavirus, repurposing existing parts
and hundreds of workers in a wartime-like battle against the outbreak that
has kneecapped the global economy and brought much of the country to a
standstill.
Ford sent teams of engineers this week to consult with counterparts at 3M
and General Electric to ramp up production of 3M respirators, GE ventilators
and new 3-D-printed face shields, the companies announced Tuesday. The
products are needed desperately by health care workers and covid-19 patients
as cases multiply across the country.
And though corporate partnerships can concentrate expertise to solve some
problems, many of these efforts are nascent — commercial metamorphoses that
require different production and supply chain mechanisms, and skilled
workers.
In the Ford collaboration, for instance, the first ventilators or
respirators to roll off the line are still months away. But the automaker
has been able to pivot more quickly on the plastic face shields; it expects
to deliver the first batch of 1,000 this week to Detroit Mercy, Henry Ford
Health Systems and Detroit Medical Center Sinai-Grace hospitals for testing.
Eventually, it expects to produce 100,000 a week.
“This is like bringing in the cavalry to say, ‘Okay, where can we double
down to make things go faster and bigger?’” Mike Kesti, global technical
director of 3M’s personal safety division, said in a phone interview. | b****n
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