The team General Motors and Ventec Life Systems assembled to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic delivered its 30,000th V+Pro critical care ventilator to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services yesterday, the companies announced today.
The team General Motors and Ventec Life Systems assembled to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic delivered its 30,000th V+Pro critical care ventilator to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services yesterday, the companies announced today.
The partnership between General Motors and Ventec Life Systems has delivered more than 20,000 critical care ventilators to the U.S. Strategic National Stockpile for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The companies are on track to complete the federal government order for 30,000 critical care ventilators by the end of August. In one month, the teams went from an introductory phone call to delivering life-saving technology to frontline medical heroes.
Vice President Mike Pence, Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao traveled to General Motors’ Kokomo plant today to support the GM and Ventec Life Systems employees engaged in the production of lifesaving critical care ventilators.
In just one month, the partnership between Ventec Life Systems and General Motors has gone from a phone call to delivering VOCSN critical care ventilators to frontline medical professionals fighting COVID-19. See how it all came together.
CHICAGO – The first VOCSN V+Pro critical care ventilators produced by General Motors and Ventec Life Systems in Kokomo, Indiana are being delivered by UPS to Franciscan Health Olympia Fields in Olympia Fields, Illinois and Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago at the direction of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
KOKOMO, Ind. – General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) today began mass production of the Ventec Life Systems V+Pro critical care ventilator under contract to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
GM and Ventec Life Systems are working with speed and urgency to arm front-line medical professionals with the critical care ventilators they need to treat seriously ill patients. GM is proud to deploy its purchasing and manufacturing capability alongside the respiratory care expertise of Ventec. We remain dedicated to working with the Administration to ensure American innovation and manufacturing meet the needs of the country during this global pandemic.
Ventec, GM and our supply base have been working around the clock for weeks to meet this urgent need. Our commitment to build Ventec’s high-quality critical care ventilator, VOCSN, has never wavered.
So General Motors and Ventec Life Systems teamed up to produce ventilators. In just two weeks, the companies will deliver the full 30,000 ventilators they owe the U.S. government, helping to bring the U.S. stockpile closer to an inventory level that positions the nation to withstand any near-term pandemic spikes.
Ventilation made it into the public eye in March with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Ventec Life Systems was at the forefront, as the small company teamed up with General Motors to build 30,000 ventilators for the national stockpile.
When Ventec Life Systems CEO Chris Kiple said in January that the critical care ventilator company was poised to scale, he had no idea what was ahead of him.
Three months ago, when coronavirus cases began surging, fears of a shortage of ventilators mounted. Those concerns have eased for now, said Chris Brooks, chief strategy officer at Ventec. The Bothell-based company partnered with General Motors in March to fill a $489.4 million federal government order for 30,000 ventilators by late August.
CEO Chris Kiple talks about unique innovation in Ventec Life Systems' respiratory care device, partnering with GM to make ventilators in response to Covid-19, and creating a corporate culture through real empathy for ventilator users.
Like many Americans, Ventec CEO Chris Kiple never could have predicted, at the outset of 2020, the position he would be in today. In January, Ventec’s business was on a predictable, albeit high-growth, path.
Kelly Willis Rice had just moved to the Kokomo, Indiana, area when she saw a news story about General Motors looking for people to build ventilators in the fight against the coronavirus. With little hesitation, she decided to help out.
Ventilators have become the single most important piece of medical equipment for critically ill coronavirus patients whose damaged lungs prevent them from getting enough oxygen to vital organs.
Combs' job at the factory is on the sub assembly line -- making each smaller part of the ventilator, pulling together the pieces and running the first test to make sure it has been assembled correctly. Then the ventilators head to Wampler's unit, which runs additional tests. She and her co-workers hook the ventilators up to artificial lungs and ensure that they can run for 48 hours without disruption.
Tracy Streeter's sister was recently hospitalized and required a ventilator. He tells us, “I’m building the very thing that saved my sister’s life...it makes it surreal."
Paul Cole, a fourth-generation GM worker, is assisting the automaker’s COVID-19 efforts decades after his great-grandfather was part of the “Arsenal of Democracy” during World War II.
Debby Hollis doesn’t make a big fuss about things. She just acts. That is exactly what she did when she signed on to make Ventec critical care ventilators capable of supporting patients fighting COVID-19.
Ventilators are often the difference between life and death as patients fight coronavirus, and a Northwest Indiana auto manufacturer delivered the precious devices to an Uptown hospital. NBC 5’s Patrick Fazio has the story.
A shipment of critical care ventilators arrived Saturday at the Indiana District 1 Emergency Operations Center/Multi-Agency Coordination Center at the Gary/Chicago International Airport.
Friday afternoon, General Motors will deliver ventilators, made at its Kokomo, Indiana plant, to hospitals in Chicago. Weiss Hospital is one of the hospitals that will receive the ventilators.
Ventilators assembled by GM and Ventec Life Systems were delivered to hospitals Thursday night with more making their way to facilities today and through the weekend, the first in a 30,000-unit order with the U.S. government.
General Motors Co.'s first ventilators arrived Friday at Chicago-area hospitals — one month after conversations about the possibility of the Detroit automaker manufacturing the devices began.
The first truckloads of General Motors-made medical ventilators from a central Indiana factory began arriving at Chicago-area hospitals Friday morning, with subsequent deliveries planned through Saturday.
On Friday, GM delivered 10 ventilators to Franciscan Health Olympia Fields in Olympia Fields, Illinois, via UPS and will ship 10 more ventilators to Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago at the direction of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
General Motors (GM) has begun mass production of the Ventec Life Systems V+Pro critical care ventilator as part of an order from the US Department of Health and Human Services.
The effort required the creation of a new manufacturing process, sourcing of hundreds of different parts from suppliers and the hiring of over 1,000 team members for the Kokomo, Indiana, factory that will produce a total of 30,000 ventilators ordered by the HHS.
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Romney Motion in Post Falls has been working around the clock, seven days a week, to create as many parts as possible.They work for [Ventec Life Systems], the company that partnered with General Motors to create more ventilators.
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Moments into an initial conference call nearly two weeks ago, a proposed venture between Bothell-based Ventec Life Systems and General Motors to mass produce thousands of ventilators for the nation’s coronavirus fight appeared dead.
On March 18, General Motors Co. Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra told President Donald Trump’s economic adviser Larry Kudlow that the automaker might be able to help make much-needed ventilators, the scarce breathing machines used to keep coronavirus patients alive.
The automaker and its partner, Ventec, had spent more than a week figuring out how to make thousands of the lifesaving devices when the White House said G.M. was “wasting time.”
Twelve days ago, General Motors put hundreds of workers on an urgent project to build breathing machines as hospitals and governors pleaded for more in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
President Donald Trump, who excoriated General Motors Co on Friday and invoked emergency powers to compel the production of badly needed ventilators to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, has abruptly shifted gears to praise the automaker.
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General Motors Corp. Chairman and CEO Mary Barra is making good on her offer to use the company’s resources to help produce much needed ventilators for treating COVID-19 patients.
General Motors on Friday announced it will lend its auto factories to support Ventec Life Systems’ production of ventilators in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
GM said Friday that it is working with Ventec Life Systems to help increase production of respiratory care products such as ventilators that are needed by a growing number of hospitals as the COVID-19 pandemics spreads throughout the U.S.
A shortage of ventilators is a serious concern as the number of reported coronavirus infections increases across the United States. Ventec Life Systems is trying to help fill the gaps. CNN's Sara Sidner reports.
Chris Kiple said he feels “the weight of the world on our shoulders’’ as his Bothell-based ventilator-manufacturing company navigates furious worldwide demand to treat those sickened by the novel coronavirus.
Manufacturers are producing as many as they can to care for Covid-19 patients with breathing problems. Now the federal government is asking for even more.
With the high need for ventilators in the face of COVID-19, Ventec Life Systems, of Bothell, Wash., is stepping up with its multifunction ventilator, known as VOCSN, for ventilation, oxygen, cough, suction and nebulization.
Velentium supplied the ventilator testing systems that were used in Project V, a collaboration that involved General Motors and Ventec ramping up the U.S. ventilator supply during COVID-19.
One Friday in March, Todd Olson was suddenly pulled into a life-or-death project. General Motors Co. asked Olson, CEO of Twin City Die Castings in Minneapolis: Could he help make tiny pistons? The giant carmaker was committed to helping the country by producing ventilators, which were suddenly in short supply as the coronavirus spread like wildfire.
By late March, Newark, New Jersey-based ZAGO Manufacturing was fielding calls and filling orders for hundreds of thousands of its air-tight sealing screws – a small but integral part in the design and functionality of medical ventilators.
Local Connecticut-based manufacturer Tri-Star Industries, an MW Industries company, has been supplying engineered fasteners that are critical to ventilator assemblies.
Swissomation’s Virginia branch has been making ventilator components for Ventec for several years, but the demand increased after GM and Ventec partnered to assemble 30,000 units for the U.S. government by the end of August to help treat more COVID-19 patients in critical condition, according to an article from Reuters. Because of this, Swissomation needed its Fredericksburg branch to help out.
To enable General Motors to succeed at mass-manufacturing Ventec Life System’s VOCSN ventilator systems as rapidly as the COVID-19 response needed, Velentium had to source, assemble, document, verify, and supply the automated test systems we’d helped Ventec design a few short years ago.
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General Motors (GM) appoints CEVA Logistics as its 4PL to manage its entire ventilator production supply chain. Under GM’s contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, CEVA Logistics is responsible for delivering hundreds of parts which will be used in the making of the Ventec Life Systems V+Pro critical care ventilator at General Motors’ Kokomo, Indiana, US factory.
We're incredibly proud to be a part of the amazing effort by so many to spin up production of Ventec Life Systems VOCSN critical-care ventilators at General Motors' Kokomo, Indiana facility.
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In what seems like the blink of an eye, our lives and businesses have been upended by the COVID-19 pandemic.Yet, amid the gloom, there are stories of suburban businesses stepping up to take action to help in the fight of the COVID-19 virus, as well as help one another in the battle.
President Donald Trump invoked the Defense Production Act last month to force General Motors to speed up its production of ventilators, an action that has rippled through the auto supply chain as suppliers fire up the front line and transition their manufacturing processes to provide components critical to fighting the coronavirus pandemic.
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Mary Barra, the CEO of GM, and Chris Kiple, CEO of Ventec Life Systems, discussed their ongoing efforts with "CBS Evening News" anchor Norah O'Donnell.
Proper Group recently announced that it is forming its PGM medical business unit to address medical supply challenges that have arisen from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Milwaukee Wisconsin CBS 58's evening coverage of Speedtech International's contribution in the fight against COVID-19. The story highlights Speedtech supply of SPEEDWRAP® Brand Hook & Loop Fasteners for General Motors and Ventec Life Systems manufacturing of ventilators as well as Speedtech's supply of other front line medical needs.
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Elon made it sound like a breeze. It started on March 18th with a casual tweet to a fan promising that Tesla would make ventilators “if there is a shortage,” setting off an avalanche of replies educating him that there was, already, a shortage.
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RACINE, Wis. (CBS 58) -- Another Wisconsin company is now joining the fight against COVID-19. Speedtech International, Inc. is now creating a part for ventilators.
Precision Associates Inc., Minneapolis, is ramping up its production of several essential rubber components for ventilator manufacturer Ventec Life Systems. Ventec recently announced plans to partner with GM to increase the output of these crucial units in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A Langley company is making thousands of parts for ventilators after receiving big orders from American firms producing the vital equipment in the fight to save COVID-19 patients.
While a worldwide supply chain is helping Bothell-based Ventec Life Systems and General Motors rapidly find parts to build thousands of ventilators for coronavirus patients, the most critical component needed for the machines is made in Woodinville.
This mold manufacturer with the help of its steel supplier delivered a die-cast mold from concept to completion in less than one week for a component that was holding up the production of ventilators.
This unique partnership combines Ventec Life Systems’ respiratory care expertise with General Motors’ manufacturing might to build VOCSN critical care ventilators for frontline medical professionals fighting COVID-19.
