“Everyone understands the importance of this,” said Adrian Price, director of global core engineering for vehicle manufacturing at Ford. ADIn the U.S., both Ford and GM have scrambled to find automobile component suppliers who are willing or capable of making ventilator parts instead. ADAt the factory outside Detroit, Ford is partnering with Airon, a small Florida-based ventilator company that typically produces two or three machines a day. ADOn March 26, a Ford manufacturing employee showed up at Airon’s factory in Melbourne, Fla., to learn how the ventilators were made. He did not comment on the Airon ventilator specifically because he had not used it.

Source: Washington Post April 04, 2020 14:52 UTC