Ford and GE Healthcare have licensed a ventilator design from a tiny company and plan to produce as many as 50,000 of them at a Michigan factory by July, according to an article on the Tech Crunch website.
Ford will initially send a team of engineers to help boost production at Airon Corp.’s Florida facility, where it produces just three Model A ventilators per day.
Ford will also begin to ready its own Rawsonville Components Plant in Ypsilanti, Mich., for large-scale production of the ventilator that is expected to begin April 20. Ford has suspended production of its vehicles during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Ford-GE Healthcare collaboration is bringing attention to Airon, a small privately held company that specializes in high-tech pneumatic life support products.
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