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How come the industrial capacity of the world is not sufficient to produce enough equipment? Is it too specialized, too complex to be produced by commonplace m

How come the industrial capacity of the world is not sufficient to produce enough equipment? Is it too specialized, too complex to be produced by commonplace manufacturing methods?

onetimemanytime 7y ago
Not enough in time, but even if you have 30k ones, you need trained staff. (I guess--not being a doc--a nurse with a few hours of training can do 95% of the job but still.)
sharpneli 7y ago
It’s about ramping up the production. Given time we can produce ridiculous quantities per day if needed, but it takes time to set it up.
econcon 7y ago
In my software or electronics I've designed, a lot of work has gone into making design temper proof, reverse engineering proof. So it's needlessly complex. Specially where we need to protect IP, for example using client and server side software when all the work can be done on client side because you fear your competitor will steal your secret sauce by reverse engineering your binary. I wonder how many such anti tamper efforts is used in these medical machine.
NikolaeVarius 7y ago
I don't really understand this question. The industrial capacity of the world is not a single thing. Factories have specific tooling in place to make specific things. Even assuming the magic ability to re-tool instantly, raw materials occupy time and space and need to get to places. Even ignoring that, shutting down transport and logistics pipelines due to not wanting many workers to be congregated also slows everything down.
eyegor 7y ago
Right now I'd guess the bulk of the world's manufacturing capacity is under quarantine. Can't produce things without workers.
agumonkey 7y ago
stock management issues, it's more a matter of being caught pants down by a problem growing faster than the machine can accelerate
generatorguy 7y ago
In Canada the constraint is going to be the number of doctors that we have, not the number of ventilators or the physical space to house patients.
- op03 7y ago
  As far as I understand (from random reading on the net) its more or less the same bunch of procedures for most patients. After a day or two everyone in the ICU probably knows what to do.
johnchristopher 7y ago
That's a valid question, why the downvotes ? There's a marketing theater that says that anything is possible and that high tech is constantly mass produced.

How come the industrial capacity of the world is not sufficient to produce enough equipment? Is it too specialized, too complex to be produced by commonplace manufacturing methods?

onetimemanytime 7y ago

Not enough in time, but even if you have 30k ones, you need trained staff. (I guess--not being a doc--a nurse with a few hours of training can do 95% of the job but still.)

sharpneli 7y ago

It’s about ramping up the production. Given time we can produce ridiculous quantities per day if needed, but it takes time to set it up.

econcon 7y ago

In my software or electronics I've designed, a lot of work has gone into making design temper proof, reverse engineering proof. So it's needlessly complex. Specially where we need to protect IP, for example using client and server side software when all the work can be done on client side because you fear your competitor will steal your secret sauce by reverse engineering your binary. I wonder how many such anti tamper efforts is used in these medical machine.

NikolaeVarius 7y ago

I don't really understand this question. The industrial capacity of the world is not a single thing. Factories have specific tooling in place to make specific things. Even assuming the magic ability to re-tool instantly, raw materials occupy time and space and need to get to places. Even ignoring that, shutting down transport and logistics pipelines due to not wanting many workers to be congregated also slows everything down.

eyegor 7y ago

Right now I'd guess the bulk of the world's manufacturing capacity is under quarantine. Can't produce things without workers.

agumonkey 7y ago

stock management issues, it's more a matter of being caught pants down by a problem growing faster than the machine can accelerate

generatorguy 7y ago

In Canada the constraint is going to be the number of doctors that we have, not the number of ventilators or the physical space to house patients.

op03 7y ago
As far as I understand (from random reading on the net) its more or less the same bunch of procedures for most patients. After a day or two everyone in the ICU probably knows what to do.

johnchristopher 7y ago

That's a valid question, why the downvotes ? There's a marketing theater that says that anything is possible and that high tech is constantly mass produced.