Seat factory transformed to produce ventilators
Seat’s Martorell factory in Spain has been transformed to manufacture automated ventilators.
The ventilator is taking shape with printed gears, gearbox shafts from the El Prat production facility and the adapted motor of a windscreen wiper. Each ventilator has more than 80 electronic and mechanical components and undergoes a thorough quality control with ultraviolet light sterilisation.
It is now testing the ventilators in collaboration with the local healthcare authority to get approval for mass production
Sergio Arreciado, part of Seat’s process engineering, said: “Taking an assembly line that manufactures subframes, a car part, and adapting it to make ventilators has been a lengthy, difficult job involving many areas of the company, and we managed to do it in the record time of one week.”
