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Ford Motor to Help 3M and GE Healthcare Expand Respirator and Ventilator Production

Posted on 24 March 2020 by Ken Zino

Ford employees are helping 3M to increase the manufacturing capacity of 3M’s powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR) designs, as well as developing a new design using parts from both companies to meet the surge demand for first responders and health care workers. This new respirator could be produced in a Ford facility by UAW workers. Continue reading →

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Continental, 3M to Develop Intelligent Infrastructure Technology

Posted on 21 November 2019 by Ken Zino

By Continental’s admission, and an awareness of the enormity of the task that is becoming more collective admitted among previously unbridled automaker promoters, “current infrastructure is lacking some aspects of consistency, uniformity, performance specifications, and maintenance standards that are important for the industry to optimize the perception and localization capabilities of automated vehicles…
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