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When you need more than the existing manufacturers can produce, and the alternative (Italy) is to let them die in a hallway, then you might be willing to try an
by freepor 7y ago
When you need more than the existing manufacturers can produce, and the alternative (Italy) is to let them die in a hallway, then you might be willing to try anything. If it was my life I’d prefer the Dyson over nothing.
- 7thaccount 7y agoYes. This. Incredibly desperate times here.
- arcticbull 7y agoIf it's that desperate force companies to make them. Don't pin your hopes and dreams on a fantasy that you can build a large-scale medical device in two weeks.
- 7thaccount 7y agoHow can you expect that if they're at max capacity? I guess the government could throw major bucks at it.
- arcticbull 7y agoThe problem isn't that there is a lack of ventilator designs it's that there's a lack of physical ventilators which means it's a manufacturing/supply chain/logistics problem not an R&D problem. That won't be solved with yet another design.
- freepor 7y agoRamping up a vacuum cleaner factory to produce ventilators will take much longer than trying to find a design that can turn a vacuum cleaner into a ventilator. What is solved with a novel design is the repurposing of a product that a factory already has the ability to produce.
- roywiggins 7y agoWell, you might have nothing anyway, if it takes twice as long for Dyson to produce anything by starting from scratch rather than using an existing design. I guess nobody should stop him trying to make some of these at a crash pace, because there's a nonzero chance they might work out, but it does seem unlikely.
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- djsjejjdi324 7y agoThat would be Spain, not Italy.
- arcticbull 7y agoSo take the design from one existing company and ramp the manufacture. The alternative isn't sit down with a blank sheet of paper and some pencils and see what you can knock out in a couple of weeks and shove into people without going through the appropriate testing and certification procedures. The problem isn't a lack of ventilator designs.
- nitrogen 7y agoIs that not what all of the non-ventilator companies are doing? I mean that seems like the obvious choice.
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- freepor 7y agoHow can Dyson ramp up ventilator production? Their factories are not set up to manufacture ventilators with completely different materials or tooling. Dyson not only has production capacity for hundreds of thousands of vacuum cleaners, but probably has tens of thousands already in stock in warehouses and at retailers. If they can find a way to use them to help patients, those patients can get that help TOMORROW. They absolutely cannot do that with ventilators.
- arcticbull 7y agoMy lord, you can't use a vacuum cleaner to help patients that need ventilators except by removing dirt from their floors.
- freepor 7y agoWell then Dyson can't help, that's fine. But it doesn't harm anyone but them to try, so they seem to be doing the right thing in trying.