{"id":115056,"date":"2020-07-06T15:41:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T15:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/?p=438127"},"modified":"2020-07-06T15:41:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T15:41:48","slug":"driving-force-the-inside-story-of-how-rival-companies-came-together-to-make-ventilators-for-the-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/06\/driving-force-the-inside-story-of-how-rival-companies-came-together-to-make-ventilators-for-the-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving force: the inside story of how rival companies came together to make ventilators for the COVID-19 pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every member of the consortium is currently focused on saving lives, but I asked Mathieson and Hoare whether the project would change how McLaren and Ford worked in the future. Will the levels of speed, agility and focus they were forced to adopt be transferred to their own operations?<\/p>\n

\u201cVery simply, this is how we need to operate going forward,\u201d Mathieson says. \u201cThe auto industry \u2013and it\u2019s true of many other sectors as well \u2013 will have to embrace a lot of change, and a lot of that will be focused around technology and culture. This has been a fantastic example of what can be achieved if you get rid of all the normal obstacles, have a clear, laser-sharp focus on the objective, and then people just come together to make it happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cRemote working has really come to the fore, and now companies are looking at the future and thinking \u2018what space do we need and how do we operate our teams\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Workers celebrate the first Penlon ventilators heading to the NHS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

Hoare believes HoloLens will continue to have a major impact at Ford.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you use technology like HoloLens, all of a sudden the rest of your world starts to change shape,\u201d he says. \u201cWe can certainly think of applications for the headset in the automotive world. This technology will set us free, reducing our carbon footprint through reducing the amount our staff have to travel. When we need an answer to a very specific problem, we often end up saying, \u2018We need Fred on the plane\u2019, and Fred will fly from Asia to the UK to help solve the problem. Then we realise it actually wasn\u2019t Fred we needed, it was Barry who has the skills we need, so he flies over on a plane. There is tremendous potential for HoloLens there.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be one of the memories I take away from the consortium: how the right tools in the right hands with the right need makes all the difference.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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