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2020-03-24 Science & Technology
FDA eases rules for ventilator production, but hurdles remain
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Posted by 3dc 2020-03-24 05:46|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 Car makers made guns, bombs and airplane parts from a "standing start" in WW II. Get engineers and production managers that understand the product and go from there. Even companies that already make a line of technical products have a learning curve when they begin to manufacture a newly developed product. I think the expression to "ramp up" production comes from that situation.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-24 08:16||   2020-03-24 08:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Ask owners of Union Switch and Signal or Singer 1911 pistols how they feel about those companies' ability to make a product they were initially unfamiliar with.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-24 08:18||   2020-03-24 08:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Coronavirus: Carmakers answer pleas to make medical supplies
Posted by Skidmark 2020-03-24 09:19||   2020-03-24 09:19|| Front Page Top

#4 ArsenalMedicine Chest of Democracy
Posted by Lex 2020-03-24 09:23||   2020-03-24 09:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Soon they really will be "HMOs on wheels"
Posted by Lex 2020-03-24 09:25||   2020-03-24 09:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Great. Another Ford/Chevy rivalry. I can see it now, "The difference is the Chevy helps you breathe, and a Ford just blows."
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-03-24 11:22||   2020-03-24 11:22|| Front Page Top

#7 ^Competition is good - Darwin liked it.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-24 11:26||   2020-03-24 11:26|| Front Page Top

#8 Ah, but nothing sucks like Electrolux..
Posted by Lex 2020-03-24 11:37||   2020-03-24 11:37|| Front Page Top

#9 Its a running joke in the States.

I think both of their engine compartment layouts are awful and would sooner such the air out of the tires then let them design a ventilator, nevermind the actual retooling the factory, retraining assembly, so forth.

Competition? Competition ceased with Uncle Sam's Grand Bailouts.

No, the manufacturers you want to court are....the people who make tabletop games and figures using 3-D printers. Those people are creative go-getters who get really excited about their projects. Might end up with something closer to a grease gun than a space shuttle, but we just need something to work.

Function software and circuit board manufacturing will be the bottleneck.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-03-24 11:47||   2020-03-24 11:47|| Front Page Top

#10 Crap. Just realized those manufacturers and designers are non-essential and will be closed for the next 2 months. Guess Big Auto doesn't have to worry about that competition.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-03-24 12:16||   2020-03-24 12:16|| Front Page Top

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