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Old 26th March 2020, 23:24   #16
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Re: Covid-19: Maruti Suzuki could manufacture ventilators

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An interesting approach, trying to build a ventilator from the existing parts bin could speed up the things and also helps produce good quality products in short notice.
Which existing parts? Can you list common parts between a Car and a Ventilator?

They are talking about Ventilator not a chassis part or quarter panel.

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re: Covid-19: Bajaj Group commits Rs 100 crore towards medical aid

I am happy to hear about corporates and individuals coming forward to help the society in this critical time.

On the other hand, I was surprised when MG Motors announced 2 crores for relief, half of which is crowd sourced. I shouldn't judge someone regarding how much they're extending help, it's their personal preference. I am sorry here but somehow I couldn't help thinking.

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MG Motor India has announced a donation of Rs. 2 crore for government hospitals and health institutions providing medical assistance in Gurgaon, Haryana and Halol, Gujarat.

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MG will contribute Rs. 1 crore, while the remaining Rs. 1 crore will be donated by its employees. Depending on the requirements of the government hospitals and health institutions, MG will contribute gloves, masks, ventilators, medicines and beds.

MG has also advised its dealers to ensure an insurance cover for their 5,000 employees across the country.

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re: Covid-19: Bajaj Group commits Rs 100 crore towards medical aid

This is the Official Statement by Bajaj Group :

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Extremely commendable gesture. This is truly the kind of commitment billionaires would do well to show.
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Old 27th March 2020, 00:01   #19
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Re: Covid-19: Maruti Suzuki could manufacture ventilators

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Which existing parts? Can you list common parts between a Car and a Ventilator?

They are talking about Ventilator not a chassis part or quarter panel.
Sure, here you go:

Car factories to soon make ventilators & face masks amid Covid-19 crisis-filtrationsystemdesign1585079891.jpg
Blower Motor from F-150's seat ventilation system, and Battery from a handheld power tool.

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Ford will assist by providing components from their parts bin to build the respirators. The design released by Ford (top) will use 3M filters that draw air into a blower motor sourced from an F-150 and then pushed through a tube up to a mask that is sealed to the user's face.

The blower motor is sourced from the F-150's front seat assembly and is usually employed as part of the ventilated seat option. These motors are compact and run on 12 volts in the car, so they can be used with a battery pack in a situation where they need to be portable.

Seat blower motors may not seem like the first choice, but they are actually matched quite well to the blowers that are usually present in these types of respirators. According to Delta Group, seat blowers can operate at 9 to 16 volts while drawing around half an amp. This allows them to produce between 14 and 19 cfm of airflow.
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Ford is planning to use power tool batteries to operate the respirators. Based on their sketches, it looks like they will use something similar to the Dewalt DC9071 12-volt. This battery is rated at 2.4 amp hours, which allows us to get an estimate of run time using the Time = Current/Amps formula. In this case we would take the 2.4 amp hours and divide it by 0.5 amps from the blower rating above to give us a rough run time of a little under five hours.

Since these blowers would only need to run at half speed, it is possible that the run time could be doubled, extending it all the way up to 10 hours. These numbers would be comparable to the purpose-built respirator battery packs which range from four to six hours for standard units and eight to 12 hours for high capacity units.
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The great thing about using off-the-shelf parts is that most of the pieces needed to assemble these respirators are available in fairly large quantities. The seat blower motors can be pulled off the shelf by Ford and they can request more from their suppliers if needed. The drill battery packs use a standard interface and are available from the original equipment manufacturers as well as many aftermarket sources.

Ventilated seats are fairly widespread now, with many manufacturers sourcing the blowers from the same suppliers. One of the biggest is Gentherm. They’ve supplied parts for many Ford vehicles in the past and build blowers for a variety of manufacturers. Cars like the Jeep Grand Cherokee use Gentherm blowers that are very similar in design to those used on the F-150, so other automotive manufacturers could also potentially join Ford by either providing manufacturing capability or supplying some of the parts that they have on their shelves.
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Masks will likely require some work, but Ford has already started employing their resources at their Advanced Manufacturing Center in Redford, Michigan to produce face shields employing things like their in-house 3D printers to build certain components. It is likely that they can transfer some of those capabilities in order to build respirator masks.
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Old 28th March 2020, 11:41   #20
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Dr. Abhay Firodia Group creates Rs. 25 crore Covid-19 fund

Dr. Abhay Firodia Group, which includes Force Motors and Jaya Hind Industries has earmarked Rs. 25 crore to support Covid-19 relief activities in India.

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The company aims to support upgradation of healthcare infrastructure, enhancing blood collection capability and facilitating mobile clinic/testing capabilities.

The company will work closely with the Maratha Chamber Foundation, private hospitals and select NGOs.

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused thousands of deaths globally. In India, the total number of confirmed cases has crossed the 900 mark and is rising.

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Covid-19: TVS Motors & Sundaram Clayton to spend Rs 30 Crore, evaluating to make ventilators

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Key measures include:

- Making and supplying 1 Million protective face masks for essential service providers

- Deploying vehicles and disinfectants to municipalities and helping produce medical equipment.

- Employing factory kitchens at the manufacturing units in Hosur, Padi and Mysuru to make pre-packed cooked meals. These will be supplied to all essential care workers in the vicinity, from police personnel, municipal staff to healthcare workers.

- In Baddi, Himachal Pradesh, dry rations will be supplied to daily wage workers who have been displaced and to villagers without food supplies.

- The company is evaluating collaboration with 3D printing companies to make ventilators to support the hospitals.
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TVS Motor Company, a reputed manufacturer of two-wheelers and three-wheelers and die-caster Sundaram-Clayton Ltd. (SCL) have announced spending of INR 30 crore to support the nationwide efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19.

"This is an unprecedented crisis that requires all of us to cooperate and support each other as a nation," said Mr. Venu Srinivasan, Chairman, TVS Motor Company ‘’Our priority is to help the government efforts to contain and mitigate the effects of this pandemic. We will continue to do what we can for the community and people, as we have done in our 100-year history.’’

The funding will come through Srinivasan Services Trust (SST), the social arm of TVS Motor Company and Sundaram-Clayton Ltd. and will include measures ranging from manufacturing and supplying supportive equipment such as masks, to providing cooked meals to those in the frontline - from healthcare workers to police officers.

The first phase of the program is underway and SST has supplied 10 tractors fitted with disinfectant spray along with about 30 personnel to the Hosur Municipal Corporation in Tamil Nadu, and municipalities in Krishnagiri and Mysuru. The streets and villages in and around these towns are being sprayed with disinfectant as an ongoing process. SST will also manufacture and distribute 1 million face masks to those delivering essential services from healthcare to food supplies.

TVS Motor Company and SCL are using canteen kitchens in Hosur, Padi (Chennai) and Mysuru to make cooked food which is being distributed to police, healthcare workers and essential services workers in and around Hosur, Chennai and Mysuru. In Baddi, Himachal Pradesh, the company is distributing daily, dry ration kits to daily wage workers who have been displaced, and also to villagers who need food supplies.

In addition, they are evaluating collaborations with 3D printing companies to make ventilators that will help support hospitals which lack the necessary life support systems to cope with patient care for COVID-19 victims.

TVS Motor Company and Sundaram-Clayton Ltd. have shut all offices and manufacturing facilities as per the guidelines. This is a difficult time for all stakeholders and the company is exploring various methods to mitigate the financial duress and also appeals to all countrymen to do their part by observing the lockdown and maintaining hand hygiene and social distancing.
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Corporates making donations for Covid-19

  • The company has reached out to Punjab, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh governments, to help the local authorities deal with the crisis
  • Corporate entities are coming forward and extending their support to the government in containing COVID-19
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Hero Cycles Ltd, country’s largest bicycles manufacturer, has created a contingency fund of ₹100 crore to help its employees, vendors and dealer partners deal with the adverse impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The company has also reached out to Punjab, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh governments, where its manufacturing units are located, to help the local authorities deal with the crisis.

“As an organization that stands for the principles of business with a humane approach, we are allocating ₹100 crore, as a contingency fund, to help the entire ecosystem around our organization survive this crisis. We are also reaching out to different state governments to offer all possible help," said, Pankaj M Munjal, chairman, Hero Motors Company.
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Old 28th March 2020, 14:06   #23
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Re: Covid-19: Maruti Suzuki could manufacture ventilators

Maruti Suzuki joins hands with Noida-based startup to produce ventilators.

MSIL has entered an arrangement with Noida-based startup AgVa Healthcare, an existing approved manufacturer of ventilators.

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To rapidly scale up production of ventilators, MSIL would work with AgVa Healthcare, where the latter would be responsible for the technology, performance and related matters for all the ventilators produced and sold by them.

The target is to reach a volume of 10,000 units per month.
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MSIL would use its suppliers to produce the required volume of components and use its experience and knowledge to upgrade systems for the production and quality control of the higher volumes.
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Re: Covid-19: Maruti Suzuki could manufacture ventilators

Repurposing established tooling is the fastest way to creating essential healthcare supplies. Hopefully every car manufacturer (and anyone else with capable equipment) can be leveraged in the next few weeks as things come to a head.

Would be interesting to see how creative they can get with available parts. Mahindra already built a basic automated ventilator prototype, per reports.

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re: Car & bike companies making donations for Covid-19

Tata Trusts is committing Rs 500 crore for the fight against Covid-19:

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Owing to seriousness of the issue, Tata Sons announces another 1000 crores fund in addition to the above mentioned 500 crores.

Trying to bring ventilators, also trying to manufacture them in India.

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A Message from PMO:

"It is my appeal to my fellow Indians,

‪Kindly contribute to the PM-CARES Fund. This Fund will also cater to similar distressing situations, if they occur in the times ahead.

The PM-CARES Fund accepts micro-donations too. It will strengthen disaster management capacities and encourage research on protecting citizens. ‬
‪Let’s leave no stone unturned to make India healthier and more prosperous for our future generations."

Source: https://www.financialexpress.com/mon...-fund/1912208/
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Re: Covid-19: Maruti Suzuki could manufacture ventilators

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Maruti Suzuki joins hands with Noida-based startup to produce ventilators---
More on Maruti Suzuki's ventilator/ PPE program.

-Intends To Produce 10,000 Ventilators A Month

-Work with AgVa Healthcare to rapidly scale up production of ventilators

-Krishna Maruti Limited, a joint venture of MSIL, would be manufacturing 3-ply masks for supply to the Haryana and Central governments.Production is expected to start as soon as all approvals are received

-Bharat Seats Limited, a joint venture of MSIL with the Relan family, would be manufacturing protective clothing as soon as all approvals are in place.

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Akshay Kumar has donated 25 Cr it seems. Thats quite a sum from an individual!
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Not a corporate donation, but worthy to note:

Raina donates ₹ 52 lakh.

Former India batsman Suresh Raina donated Rs 52 lakh to the country’s fight against COVID-19 pandemic and urged others also to contribute in these times of health crisis.

Raina’s contribution is biggest from any Indian sports persons across disciplines.

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“It’s time we all do our bit to help defeat COVID19. I’m pledging Rs. 52 lakh for the fight against Corona (Rs. 31 lakh to the PM-CARES Fund & Rs. 21 lakh to the UP CM’s Disaster Relief Fund). Please do your bit too. Jai Hind,”
: Raina tweeted.

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