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2020年3月31日—MedtronicPB560ventilatorsystemmanufacturingCADandPCBfilesreleased...designedforcriticallyillpatientsinhighacuitysetting.

Medtronic[2], one of the largest medical device manufacturers in the world, has released the design specifications for the Medtronic PB560 ventilator system to help address the shortage of ventilators due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The first release over 200 pages of documentation. In the v2 release that was just published, the firm made available manufacturing fixtures, printed circuit board drawings (including multiple BOMs), mechanical part drawings and even all 3D CAD files. Some of these parts could be rapidly produced using 3D printing and Medtronic is certainly not new to the technology[3].

This is truly a first and impressive initiative from Medtronic, as the company works with Tesla, at the automaker’s New York facility[4] to scale up the...