COVID-19 GLOBAL PANDEMIC THE ENGINEERING RESPONSE
Stratos Precision Engineering says (below):
“In just two days we've machined almost 6,000
acetal parts and have been inspecting these to
within 2 microns to ensure supreme accuracy.”
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response to tooling needs for critical medical
shares design
Ireland-headquartered Medtronic speci cations for its leading ventilator in a bid to
overcome global shortages in response to the
coronavirus. www.is.gd/misuce
offers moulding
Plymplastics Injection Moulding capacity to those having switched to medical
products but still requiring their own moulded
parts. www.is.gd/wolayi
NCMT shares Okuma president’s letter
con rming it is operating and producing
machines. www.is.gd/ye wi
MTC engineers, with medical practitioners,
Rolls-Royce and supported by Innovate UK has,
over the previous week, prototyped, developed
and seen operational a fast-make intubation
shield for use with ventilators. www.is.gd/ kire
Sheet metal worker KMF provides update,
saying it is working but prioritising components for
customers feeding into much-needed health
equipment. www.is.gd/mawiza
Qualiturn thanks Horn Cutting Tools for rapid
parts.
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More than 400,000 surgical masks, donated
Airbus to the NHS, were collected on Friday
by
from Airbus’ Broughton plant. Airbus has
established an ‘air-bridge’ to China, using Airbus
test aircraft, to bring large quantities of surgical
masks to Europe.
www.is.gd/ipanif
Financial Times article highlights global
ventilator initiatives, says that competition
between existing and new makers for scarce
components could be a pinch point.
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Renishaw is seven-day running production of
critical parts for medical ventilators in
Gloucestershire and South Wales as part of
VentilatorChallengeUK (above). www.is.gd/ubolus
The government (3 April) unveils a £20m fund
to support “Businesses to help boost the UK’s
resilience to the long-term impact of coronavirus
and similar future situations.” www.is.gd/xasiku
“This advice is not a request; it is an
instruction. Stay at home. Protect
lives and then you will be doing your
part,” says Matt Hancock, Health
Secretary.
Request to stay at home strengthened on
Friday, 3 April (above). www.is.gd/nakipi
Week beginning 6 April
Weekend working on ventilator components
celebrated at Velocetec Engineering – “keeping
the manufacture of 14,000 ventilator parts
running”. www.is.gd/ viwi
CNF Precision Engineering thanks Matsuura for
service to keep ventilator production running.
“At 7:30 pm Sunday eve, our MAM72-35V had
a fault while running critical ventilator parts.
A quick call to Dom Seminerio and an
engineer was on the phone talking us through
it.”
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Qualiturn MD Nicholas Groom puts urgent
shout-out for raw material, two tonnes of 21 mm
(or 7/8”) 303 drawn H9 for medical parts. Issue
addressed same day of post.
www.is.gd/zeluya
Defence rm
Babcock says it will be make
10,000 ventilators in partnership with Draeger.
www.is.gd/ekimuw
PK Engineering
reports weekend operation has
produced 4,000 parts on ve Citizen sliding-head
machines. www.is.gd/ozatuw
3T Additive says 16,000 components printed:
“Started printing on Friday across 20+ EOS
machines, to be delivered for assembly in just
ve days.” Items are for project Pitlane
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