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	How the Rise Emergency Ventilator Was Built From Scratch in 21 Days in Onshape

How the Rise Emergency Ventilator Was Built From Scratch in 21 Days in Onshape

Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration Functional Applications - Remote Monitoring & Control Systems
Applicable Industries	Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions	Product Research & Development Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Predictive Maintenance Rapid Prototyping Remote Patient Monitoring
Services	Hardware Design & Engineering Services Software Design & Engineering Services System Integration
Challenge	In the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. government officials asked hardware startup Meter to design an affordable and scalable hospital-grade ventilator to address anticipated nationwide shortages. The design needed to be created with readily available machine parts not earmarked for specialized medical use to avoid undermining the already-strained supply chain. Additionally, Meter’s engineering team was forced to work from home due to the pandemic’s shelter-in-place mandates. Read More
About Customer	Meter is a Boston-area hardware startup that was in stealth mode when it was approached by U.S. government officials to design a more affordable ventilator that could be rapidly manufactured in high quantities. The company has a core team of a dozen engineers and an extended team of about 50 people, including 3D-printing experts, hospital clinicians, software developers, and sheet metal fabricators. The team has deep backgrounds in manufacturing hardware products at scale and includes members with experience in manual bag resuscitator controls at Massachusetts General Hospital. Read More
Solution	Meter’s remote engineering team relied on real-time CAD collaboration tools to rapidly accelerate production. They used PTC’s cloud-native Onshape product development platform, which enables multiple people to simultaneously work together on the same CAD model online. This allowed the team to provide instant feedback on each other’s work and make edits in a collaborative way. The team also used Onshape’s Sharing feature to grant instant access to external partners with varying levels of permissions. Additionally, the team relied on 3D metal printing at Desktop Metal to make standard off-the-shelf parts that were not immediately available due to supply chain problems. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Functional Applications - Remote Monitoring & Control Systems

Applicable Industries

Healthcare & Hospitals

Applicable Functions

Product Research & Development

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Predictive Maintenance

Rapid Prototyping

Remote Patient Monitoring

Services

Hardware Design & Engineering Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

System Integration

Challenge

In the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. government officials asked hardware startup Meter to design an affordable and scalable hospital-grade ventilator to address anticipated nationwide shortages. The design needed to be created with readily available machine parts not earmarked for specialized medical use to avoid undermining the already-strained supply chain. Additionally, Meter’s engineering team was forced to work from home due to the pandemic’s shelter-in-place mandates.

About Customer

Meter is a Boston-area hardware startup that was in stealth mode when it was approached by U.S. government officials to design a more affordable ventilator that could be rapidly manufactured in high quantities. The company has a core team of a dozen engineers and an extended team of about 50 people, including 3D-printing experts, hospital clinicians, software developers, and sheet metal fabricators. The team has deep backgrounds in manufacturing hardware products at scale and includes members with experience in manual bag resuscitator controls at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Solution

Meter’s remote engineering team relied on real-time CAD collaboration tools to rapidly accelerate production. They used PTC’s cloud-native Onshape product development platform, which enables multiple people to simultaneously work together on the same CAD model online. This allowed the team to provide instant feedback on each other’s work and make edits in a collaborative way. The team also used Onshape’s Sharing feature to grant instant access to external partners with varying levels of permissions. Additionally, the team relied on 3D metal printing at Desktop Metal to make standard off-the-shelf parts that were not immediately available due to supply chain problems.

Impact #1	The Rise Emergency Ventilator was designed and manufactured in 21 days, a development cycle that typically would require many months.
Impact #2	The ventilator was produced for under $1,000, compared to the industry average of $25,000 to $50,000 per unit.
Impact #3	The engineering team went through six design iterations in three weeks, equivalent to producing a new improved ventilator every 3.5 days.

Impact #1

The Rise Emergency Ventilator was designed and manufactured in 21 days, a development cycle that typically would require many months.

Impact #2

The ventilator was produced for under $1,000, compared to the industry average of $25,000 to $50,000 per unit.

Impact #3

The engineering team went through six design iterations in three weeks, equivalent to producing a new improved ventilator every 3.5 days.

Benefit #1	The Rise Emergency Ventilator was produced for under $1,000 per unit.
Benefit #2	The ventilator was designed and manufactured in 21 days.
Benefit #3	The engineering team went through six design iterations in three weeks.

Benefit #1

The Rise Emergency Ventilator was produced for under $1,000 per unit.

Benefit #2

The ventilator was designed and manufactured in 21 days.

Benefit #3

The engineering team went through six design iterations in three weeks.

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How the Rise Emergency Ventilator Was Built From Scratch in 21 Days in Onshape

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