A Month’s Work in Days to Combat COVID-19
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A company making heater plates for medical ventilators, suddenly found its annual order of around 160,000 doubled immediately, as the Coronavirus crisis took hold. So, when they were asked to take part in the UK Consortium, their expertise in CNC laser cutting, programmed with RADAN sheetmetal software, meant they were ready to join the battle to save lives. The consortium of significant UK industrial, technical and engineering businesses from the aerospace, automotive and medical sectors came together to prototype and manufacture two agreed designs of much-needed ventilators, based on existing technologies. “RADAN meant we could quickly condense all the necessary up-front work which would normally take at least a month, into just a few days, and we successfully manufactured and delivered 2,000 sets of each of the three components in a very short time frame.” The parts had to be laser cut and formed, then treated with inserts put in and sent on to the assembly line at Luton. “We run Trumpf fibre laser technology and use RADAN for assisting with our quotation process, as well as producing the parts from the DXF facilitating the programming, nesting and cutting.
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