Interview with German Ventilator Manufacturer
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#2It would be nice if we could at least provide everybody with simple surgical masks. It would surely help flatten the curve a lot if we could make masks in public mandatory. As far as I understand it those are basically just paper and a nose clip. They should be very simple to mass manufacture.
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#3It would be nice if we could at least provide everybody with simple surgical masks. It would surely help flatten the curve a lot if we could make masks in public mandatory. As far as I understand it those are basically just paper and a nose clip. They should be very simple to mass manufacture.
The main problem I see regarding masks is, besides price, distribution. Now that Chinese manufacturers are running again, they are producing 24/7. Sure prices are way higher than before. But the masks are there.
Problem is, Chinese suppliers sell FOB, meaning export cleared delivered to a (air)port terminal in China. Customers in Germany want to buy DDP (import cleared and delivered a specified location in Germany). There you have a structural problem. One that would be easy to overcome, if it wasn't product liability. The importer of record takes product liability in case the manufacturer is outside the EU. Good luck getting that insured (I tried). Ultimately, it will get sorted out.
The easiest way to get supplies going would be if the government did these two things:
- grant interest free loans for these products to allow importers to pay suppliers upfront (that's how this business works) for government orders
- take the product liability risk for products wutyh the proper (paper) certification
That would allow a lot of people to get this stuff. Rigjtt now it is a pain the ass.
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#4I love the complete lack of bullshit in this article. Everything I read about this crisis seems to be full of hedging, massaging, unquestioned vagaries and coddling of sources. Here, it just straight to the point with a knowledgeable source.
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#5It would be nice if we could at least provide everybody with simple surgical masks. It would surely help flatten the curve a lot if we could make masks in public mandatory. As far as I understand it those are basically just paper and a nose clip. They should be very simple to mass manufacture.
Yes. Or things like oxygen.
There are so much more things than ventilators that are much easier to scale.
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#6"I spoke with Daimler over the weekend. They would also like to help. But it’s unfortunately not so simple..."
It would be interesting to hear more precisely why. We've heard more than a few well-respected industrialists essentially saying "Scaling up ventilator production ? How hard could it be?"
Edit. Of course I am not suggesting that car assembly lines are suitable to build ventilator parts. That's clearly not what Daimler suggested either. The question is 'what are the actual bottlenecks to ventilator production?', and nobody seems to really be willing or able to say.
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#7Home made masks are not as good as professional masks, but they have some efficiency (> 70%).
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258525804_Testing_t...
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#8"I spoke with Daimler over the weekend. They would also like to help. But it’s unfortunately not so simple..." It would be interesting to hear more precisely why. We've heard more than a few well-respected industrialists essentially saying "Scaling up ventilator production ? How hard could it be?" Edit. Of course I am not suggesting that car assembly lines are suitable to build ventilator parts. That's clearly not wh…
Precisely what I was looking for in the article as well. Outside of logistic planning snafus, parts situation, and post production operator issues, it was silent as to why we can not scale up cranking out these machines.
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#9"I spoke with Daimler over the weekend. They would also like to help. But it’s unfortunately not so simple..." It would be interesting to hear more precisely why. We've heard more than a few well-respected industrialists essentially saying "Scaling up ventilator production ? How hard could it be?" Edit. Of course I am not suggesting that car assembly lines are suitable to build ventilator parts. That's clearly not wh…
Next line is "We can’t build cars either." It would be interesting to hear industrialists explain how car assembly lines make them able to produce any particular hi-tech equipment.
Or are you saying "why not just equip the buildings next door and quadruple everything"?
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#10It would be nice if we could at least provide everybody with simple surgical masks. It would surely help flatten the curve a lot if we could make masks in public mandatory. As far as I understand it those are basically just paper and a nose clip. They should be very simple to mass manufacture.
Yes. Or things like oxygen. There are so much more things than ventilators that are much easier to scale.
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