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General Motors and Ventec Life Systems Complete Delivery of 30,000 V+Pro Critical Care Ventilators

More than 20,000 critical care ventilators delivered to the U.S. Strategic National Stockpile

General Motors and Ventec Life Systems welcome Vice President Mike Pence to ventilator production plant

Shipment made to Indiana District 1 Emergency Operations Center/Multi-Agency Coordination Center at Gary-Chicago International Airport

Weiss Memorial Hospital receives a shipment of VOCSN critical care ventilators

First VOCSN critical care ventilators delivered to Franciscan Health Olympia Fields.

First General Motors-Ventec critical care ventilators shipped to frontline medical professionals

GM CEO Mary Barra Tours Kokomo Facility

First General Motors-Ventec critical care V+Pro ventilators ready for delivery

Photography and Timelapse Footage from Kokomo, Indiana

HHS announces ventilator contract with GM under Defense Production Act

• Hiring and first production run
• Strict protocols have been put in place to protect the health of the General Motors’ team building VOCSN critical care ventilators in Kokomo, Indiana.

Production plans revealed for Kokomo to produce VOCSN critical care ventilators, as key partnership in fight against COVID-19 is announced.

Crews begin preparing Kokomo facility for production

Work begins at Kokomo production facility to prepare for ventilator manufacturing and employee outreach

• Ventec and GM teams meet in Kokomo to walk through manufacturing space and train production team on VOCSN
• Supplier notification to more than 100 suppliers from Ventec and GM

Ventec team travels to Kokomo, Indiana

• Ventec and GM team meet in person
• GM and Ventec joint statement on collaboration to increase ventilator production
• Videos recorded of each VOCSN part
• GM sourcing team identifies suppliers and Initial supplier notification sent to hundreds suppliers of Ventec and GM to understand scaling capacity and source parts to build up to 200,000 VOCSN

• Joint GM/Ventec technical review of 700 VOCSN components including manufacturing overview and tooling required.
• GM team departs for Ventec Life Systems facility in Bothell, WA

• GM CEO and Chairman, Mary Barra, speaks with White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow about ventilator production. Watch video of Larry Kudlow discussing his conversation with Mary Barra on March 18.
• First phone call between Ventec and Phil Kienle, VP Manufacturing at General Motors
• Transfer of production designs for the nearly 700 unique VOCSN parts

• Ken Chenault from StopTheSpread.org connects with Mary Barra, CEO of GM
• First call between Ventec and StopTheSpread.org, followed by an introduction to GM
• • Gerald Johnson, EVP, Global Manufacturing, General Motors
  • Phil Kienle, VP Manufacturing, General Motors
  • Chris Kiple, CEO, Ventec Life Systems
  • Chris Brooks, Chief Strategy Officer, Ventec Life Systems
  • Paul Friedman, CEO and co-founder of Entangled Group
  • Rachel Romer Carlson, the CEO and Co-Founder of Guild Education

Forbes article published, highlighting Ventec and the need for ventilator supply chain resiliency. Ventilator Maker: We can ramp up production five-fold