The Ventilator Challenge: CPI joins national COVID-19 Restarting operations? Two months of success vaccine taskforce Work safety culture doesn’t happen by accident Page 4 Page 12 Page 14 High Value Manufacturing news Issue 09 | May 2020 COVID19 sPECIAL iSSUE Free technical pack doWNLOADS iNTUBATION SHIELDS: Page 8 Face Shields: Page13 HVM CONneCT Welcome to CONTENTS FeatureS The Ventilator Challenge: 4 hvm connect Two months of success CPI joins national taskforce to 12 Your quarterly high value manufacturing update develop COVID-19 vaccine Restarting operations? 14 We live in unprecedented times. In generation- Work safety culture doesn’t defining moments such as this, we are all happen by accident judged by our actions. Whether by following social distancing measures, delivering key NEWS supplies or by supporting the frontline, we all have a role to play in helping flatten the viral NMIS appoints first CEO 3 curve and enabling our NHS to cope with the HVM Catapult CEO defers retirement 3 Rosa Wilkinson sudden influx of patients. AMRC rising to the ventilator 6 Communications The HVM Catapult and wider manufacturing Director challenge HVM Catapult community have played a vital role in the national response to the COVID-19 outbreak. In MTC develops intubation shield to 8 protect NHS staff this edition of HVM Connect, we look at how HVM Catapult Centres have been using their Navigating the deisgn to manufacture 9 insight, connections and facilities to support the journey national effort whether that’s in the development WMG helps British taskforce with new 9 of new products, creation of vital PPE or, of non-invasive ventilator course, in scaling up the manufacture of the life- NCC prints protective face shields for 10 saving ventilators our hospitals need. Bristol hospitals I’m pleased to say that the work we are doing is AMRC 3D prints protective face 11 not just about responding to today’s demands. shields for NHS workers We know that even when we emerge from the MTC provides free face shield design 13 crisis, our manufacturers will face significant to combat coronavirus challenges in a world that could look and feel Low-oxygen scuba rebreather 15 very different. The good news is that the HVM repurposed to help coronavirus Catapult’s teams are already gearing up to patients ensure that firms are match fit when they step Manufacturing the future workforce 16 out into the ‘new normal’ that will follow this period of lock down. SUPPORT We all know that a period of ‘downtime’ can COVID-19 funding opportunities 18 give the room to think about new ways of Work with us 18 doing things. It can also allow time to forge relationships with new partners. Through this crisis, the UK’s engineering firms have already shown the amazing results they can deliver. Keep up to date Helping them to connect even better with the Get all the latest news from the HVM Catapult: UK’s world-leading research base will help them @HVM_Catapult to shine even more brightly on the global stage. linkedin.com/company/ The HVM Catapult is committed to helping high-value-manufacturing-catapult/ them to do so. hvm.catapult.org.uk 2 High Value Manufacturing Catapult HVM CONnecT NMIS appoints first CEO he National Manufacturing T Institute Scotland, the overarching group for our centre the AFRC, has announced that John Reid HVM Catapult CEO has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer to lead the growth and development of defers retirement the world-leading industry- led manufacturing research D ick Elsy, Chief Executive I want to play my full part in and development facilities Officer of the High Value mobilising the outstanding at the heart of the Advanced Manufacturing Catapult, has resources of the High Value Manufacturing Innovation announced that he will defer his Manufacturing Catapult to District Scotland led by planned retirement to support underpin their success until the Renfrewshire Council. the manufacturing sector’s situation stabilises and I can response to the coronavirus hand over to a successor.” John will take up position outbreak. in August after successfully Responding to Mr Elsy’s leading the Michelin-Scotland Mr Elsy announced in announcement, Allan Cook, Innovation Parc (MSIP) in January that he would retire CBE, Chair of the High Value Dundee. Prior to leading from the HVM Catapult in Manufacturing Catapult said: MSIP John held the position August this year. Yesterday, “I am delighted that Dick has of General Manager at the in response to challenges UK generously decided to defer Michelin tyre plant on the manufacturers will face during his departure from the High same site. the coronavirus outbreak, Dick Value Manufacturing Catapult. confirmed that he would defer His decision is typical of Dick’s John’s appointment his retirement to support the commitment to HVMC and the further strengthens the national response to the virus. wider manufacturing sector. leadership team for the group, He said: “Coronavirus His deep understanding of UK which includes the new manufacturing and his tireless flagship facility being built presents immense challenges for the UK’s manufacturers. passion for supporting the next to Glasgow Airport that sector’s businesses through was recently granted planning In the short term they will be called on to step up to supply innovation are vital qualities at permission by Renfrewshire a time when companies are Council. the nation’s needs at an extraordinary moment in our facing exceptional demands history. Looking further ahead, and an uncertain future READ MORE they will need to be strong to economy.” weather the shock that the virus has given our economy. read more High Value Manufacturing Catapult 3 HVM CONneCT 4 High Value Manufacturing Catapult HVM CONnecT FEATURE The Ventilator Challenge: Two months of success entilatorChallengeUK, device. The ventilator received paraPAC plus™ ventilator with V the consortium of UK MHRA approval on 15 April three brand-new production aerospace, automotive and 2020, becoming the first newly sites established in the past medical businesses that has adapted ventilator design to be 8 weeks at GKN Aerospace’s come together to produce at- given regulatory authorisation facilities at Luton and at Cowes scale medical ventilators for the as part of the UK Government’s and Rolls Royce at Filton. NHS, celebrated two-months fight against COVID19. In total, the 33-strong since it was formed last week. As well as producing the consortium has seen over Led by our very own Dick Penlon Prima ESO2 device, 5,500 people working around Elsy, the Consortium has VentilatorChallengeUK has the clock across nine sites focused its efforts on scaling also supported Smiths Group to deliver both models of up production of two devices in scaling up the delivery of its ventilator into the NHS. since its formation on 19th Together, Penlon and March 2020. One an existing Smiths would ordinarily design made by Smiths Group, have combined capacity to the other a new device based produce between 50 and 60 on an adaptation of existing ventilators per week. Today technology from Oxfordshire- the consortium is producing based Penlon. between 100-200 of the VentilatorChallengeUK has combined units per day as worked closely with Penlon to it seeks to deliver increased modify and scale up production ventilator capacity to the UK. of its Penlon Prima ES02 High Value Manufacturing Catapult 5 HVM CONneCT We have covered an incredible amount of ground in the two months since the Consortium was formed. The progress we have made is testament to the effort and energy brought to the challenge by every member of the VentilatorChallengeUK Consortium team. They have never wavered in their determination to make sure AMRC rising to that our NHS always has the number of ventilators it needs to treat this virus. the ventilator Although the UK is widely accepted to have passed the peak of infections in this first challenge phase of the pandemic, we are continuing to uturistic headsets pandemic reaches its peak and scale up our production F programmed to enable risks overwhelming the ability capabilities to make sure skilled aerospace and of NHS doctors and nurses to that there is always a automotive production line treat a sudden surge in patients entilator available when a operatives to rapidly switch to suffering from the virus. The patient needs it should a the manufacture of 10,000 life- industrial consortium, Ventilator second wave strike the UK. saving medical ventilators were Challenge UK, came together I look forward to seeing rushed from the Advanced after the Prime Minister, Boris VentilatorChallengeUK Manufacturing Research Johnson, made a plea for an deliver even more ventilators Centre (AMRC), part of the High additional 50,000 ventilators to over the coming weeks.” Value Manufacturing (HVM) be delivered to the NHS within Catapult, to sites across the UK a matter of weeks. DIck Elsy last week. At the same time, Under the leadership of CEO, HVM Catapult AMRC Cymru was turned into the HVM Catapult, the AMRC a production facility for the and the Nuclear AMRC are at devices. the heart of a multi-faceted The augmented reality campaign to deliver the For more information and equipment is critical to the additional ventilators, the first press enquiries, please visit the success of a powerful industrial of which will be coming off VentilatorChallengeUK website. consortium which has come production lines around the together to accelerate the UK as early as next week, Find out more production of thousands of according to the Chancellor ventilators before the Covid-19 of the Duchy of Lancaster, 6 High Value Manufacturing Catapult HVM CONnecT Michael Gove. The consortium is focusing production on two existing ventilator designs which meet the high-level specification for a Rapidly Manufactured Ventilator System (RMVS) developed by clinicians and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).