[CrAzY dRiVeR]

Originally Posted by warrioraks

500 ventilators have been delivered by MSIL

They have also handed over 200,000 triple-ply face masks to the Gurugram administration through their seat manufacturing JV - Krishna Maruti Ltd.

https://www.livemint.com/companies/n...533564116.html

[warrioraks]

Originally Posted by CrAzY dRiVeR

They have also handed over 200,000 triple-ply face masks to the Gurugram administration through their seat manufacturing JV - Krishna Maruti Ltd.

https://www.livemint.com/companies/n...533564116.html

Thanks for sharing. The ventilators are being primarily manufactured in collaboration with a healthcare startup (forgot the name) and Motherson Sumi.

Good to see the market leader stepping up and walking the talk.

Edit: healthcare startup referred above is AgVa.

[saket77]

Very nice to see Maruti Suzuki rising to the occasion and making more than 1500 ventilators over a span of just 20 days. HLL Lifecare, a GOI enterprise has already tested the ventilators and the behemoth automaker is now awaiting orders from the government for dispatch. Some units are being used in the Medanta hospital in Gurgaon and they are reportedly very satisfied with the performance and looking forward to more units.

Source:
https://www.carandbike.com/news/maru...-lateststories

[Thermodynamics]

Originally Posted by saket77

Very nice to see Maruti Suzuki rising to the occasion and making more than 1500 ventilators over a span of just 20 days... is now awaiting orders from the government for dispatch.

A remarkable development in record time. I wish, Government streamlines bureaucratic workflow and issues dispatch orders asap, so the units can be utilized in these dire circumstances.

[wheelguy]

The company has announced a slew of initiatives in the Ventilator making and distribution efforts.

CHENNAI: Ashok Leyland, flagship Company of the Hinduja Group and India’s leading commercial vehicle manufacturer, on Monday announced a slew of initiatives in the Ventilator Making and Distribution efforts.

Ashok Leyland was approached by the Government of India and the Government of Tamil Nadu to work with and support Ventilator Makers and help them improve supply chain and output capacity. In response, the Company took a holistic approach to address the entire gamut of requirements in Covid-19 Patient Breathing Assistance, rather than working with just one party and one product. This included first mile, mid-range and high end ICU ventilators required for patients at different stages of disease progression. This approach ensures maximum availability of ventilation at optimum costs.

After discussing with various clinical experts and intensivists, the company identified the gap that there was no ready solution available for relevant and robust first mile ventilation. Working to fill this gap, a team of 50 Ashok Leyland Engineers have been working since end-March and have now readied a simple yet intelligent ventilator, at low cost but with all the essential features to aid First Mile ventilation including the necessary sensors and controllers for volume and pressure monitoring, and safeguards. The ventilator development is now complete. Testing, certification and clinical trials will conclude in the next few weeks, with mass manufacture of this system, starting in May, 2020.

In the mid-range and high-end ICU ventilator segments, Ashok Leyland is working with two Chennai based Ventilator manufacturers viz. Kriti Kare India Pvt Ltd, a manufacturer of the ACUvent ventilators since 2014 and Phoenix Medical Systems Pvt Ltd, a 30-year-old firm who are market leaders in infant, maternal care products, assistive devices, and have developed an adult ventilator to support the nation in this moment of crisis. Under this arrangement, Ashok Leyland is offering help with component sourcing, supply chain, logistics, man power for production planning and in line-quality which will help both the ventilator manufacturers to overcome the challenge of large-scale production in a short duration of time.

Sharing his thoughts on this initiative, Mr. Vipin Sondhi, Managing Director & CEO, Ashok Leyland, said, “Our Sourcing and Engineering teams have been working 24X7 on these three projects. We are humbled that our efforts in developing these ventilators and support to Ventilator makers, will help the Government to prepare themselves for the future needs of people needing ventilator care.”

Commenting on the ventilator initiatives, Dr. N. Saravanan, CTO, Ashok Leyland, said, “With this holistic approach, covering all aspects of patient ventilation, we are able to best utilise our strengths across functions, to make our contribution and help fight the battle against Covid-19. The idea is to offer lean and rapid support as the nation builds its capacities for supporting different patients in various stages of Covid-19, with relevant solutions.”

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[msdivy]

Originally Posted by saket77

Very nice to see Maruti Suzuki rising to the occasion and making more than 1500 ventilators over a span of just 20 days.

Unfortunately, these are not meeting quality standards.

In a letter dated June 19, doctors have highlighted that the AgVa-Maruti ventilators were not able supply 100 percent oxygen and that oxygen level did not increase to desired level. The letter highlighted that the variation in FiO2 (level of inspired oxygen available to patients) was more than 10 percent.

On invasive ventilation, the FiO2 levels achieved was 67 percent and in non-invasive ventilation it was only 42 percent.

One of the ventilators failed within 5 minutes of starting on test lungs.

Besides manual setting for managing FiO2 was not possible and the doctors say these ventilators were delivered without quality control/assurance test that puts the patients’ life in danger.

The model that was supplied to St George and JJ hospital was a basic version with manual settings and costing Rs 1.5 lakh.

Link: Mumbai hospitals return 81 ventilators made by AgVa-Maruti on non-performance