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Overview
The number of cases of COVID-19 has exceeded 2.5 million across the world and the NHS requires at least another 8, 000 ventilators. As the VentilatorChallengeUK consortium have already provided 250 ventilators and is accelerating production in an effort to reach 1,500 a week, the UK is on its way to produce the much-needed ventilators.
At the request of the Department of Health and Social Care, the engineering industry are turning their hand to large-scale medical device production and manufacturing to assist the 3,500 clinical engineers that currently make up part of the NHS workforce.
This webinar will cover the engineering efforts that have been made so far and bring together manufacturing experts from across the industry to discuss the best engineering response to the crisis.
Topics to be covered:
- Update on recruiting engineering volunteers
- The clinical engineer perspective
- Taking devices from design-to-prototype and then into mass production
- Insight into re-engineering current equipment
- Navigating the medical device approval process
- Finding synergies between traditional manufacturing and medical device manufacturing
- The reality of switching production lines
- Ensuring production of different types of equipment to meet varying patient needs
For more information on the PeRSo Respirator, visit www.southampton.ac.uk/publicpolicy/support-for-policymakers/policy-projects/perso.page
Open Specification paper: https://engrxiv.org/rvcs3
To access the Volunteer Database application via the Royal Academy of Engineering website, visit www.raeng.org.uk/policy/engineering-response-to-covid-19/active-government-calls
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Day 1
12:00 - Webinar Programme
Start time:
12:00 London
07:00 New York
13:00 Berlin
16:30 New Delhi
20:00 Tokyo
12:00 BST Webinar begins
12:30 BST Q&A
13:00 BST Webinar ends
Helen Meese: Founder/CEO, The Care Machine Ltd
Helen is an Electro-Mechanical Power Engineer with over 20 years experience in both academia and industry. Her academic career was spent at Loughborough University researching turbocharger performance and developing electrical defence systems for armoured vehicles. Her industrial career was in the defence industry managing projects on euro-fighter typhoon, submarine systems and naval vessels. Helen began working for the IMechE in 2013 as Head of Engineering in Society. She became Head of Healthcare Policy in 2015, managing the Institution’s programmes on innovative healthcare technologies and their impact on patient care. Helen now runs her own medtech consultancy and continues to develop thought leadership across the healthcare sector to raise the profile of biomedical, pharmaceutical, and mechanical engineering.
Basit Abdul: Healthcare Science Fellow, NHS England
Basit is a Healthcare Scientist specialised in Clinical Engineering (CE). He has two part time jobs, one in NHS England as a Healthcare Science (HCS) fellow and the other at Barts Health NHS Trust as CE Apprenticeship Program Manager. His fellowship aims to grow HCS Apprenticeships within London, Kent, Surrey, and Sussex. He has designed, developed, and deployed CE apprenticeship programmes for Barts. He is also a Clinical Entrepreneur in NHS England’s Clinical Entrepreneur Programme.
Basit holds two MSc’s in Medical Electronics and in Healthcare Leadership. His first degree is Electronics Engineering. He has won several awards for his engineering, innovation, and project management skills, and has presented his work at international conferences, including WHO. He is a collaborator of the IFMBE’s CE Division.
Alex Dickinson: Associate Professor in Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton
Alex Dickinson is an Associate Professor at the University of Southampton. He is a mechanical engineer with 14 years’ experience in biomedical engineering. He started work in industry with Finsbury Orthopaedics Ltd., in hip arthroplasty pre-clinical analysis and testing. He now lectures engineering design and computing, and researches the mechanics of prosthetic limbs, how they interact with the body, and how they are designed. He held an RAEng Research Fellowship from 2015-2020 entitled ‘Developing, Testing and Fitting the Next Generation of Prosthetic Limbs’. He is most motivated by multidisciplinary work with clinicians, health scientists and industry, aiming to deliver research that is relevant to service users, and technologies which are fit-for-purpose. Alex sits on the board of the IMechE’s Biomedical Engineering Division (BmED). He is Associate Editor (Reviews) at the IPEM journal Medical Engineering & Physics, and a STEM Ambassador.
Sam Turner: Chief Technology Officer, High Value Manufacturing Catapult
Professor Sam Turner is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the High Value Manufacturing (HVM) Catapult. He joined the HVM Catapult team from his role as CTO of the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) with Boeing, where he worked on a range of projects and capabilities including the flagship digital facility Factory 2050, machining, casting and composites technology. As a founding member of the AMRC, Sam developed the AMRC’s Machining Group to its current level of 85 staff and £5M turnover, with successes in delivering impact to UK industry, before moving into the CTO role. In addition to his industrial work, Sam has secured Innovate UK, EPSRC and EU funding for over £20M for manufacturing R&D in machining and automation. He has written over 40 publications, including 16 journal papers in the area of machining. Sam is active in machining, automation and digital manufacturing and chairs the Digital Engineering and Manufacturing Leadership Group.
Michael Straughan: Chief Operating Officer, Sunseeker International Ltd
Michael was appointed Chief Operating Officer at Sunseeker International in October 2017. He is responsible for procurement, logistics, HR and manufacturing of all boat lines across six locations in the UK. Michael brought to Sunseeker a wealth of experience in the manufacturing of luxury products.
Prior to joining Sunseeker Michael acquired 30 years of experience in the automotive industry. Michael was Board Member for Manufacturing at the luxury car maker Bentley Motors. At Bentley, he was responsible for all manufacturing and logistics operations, including new car launches. Under his leadership, Bentley was the first British company to be awarded the European Industrial Excellence Award. Michael has also held senior manufacturing positions in Jaguar Land Rover, Volvo and Nissan both in the UK and internationally.
Webinar Chair: Jenifer Baxter: Head of Engineering, Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Dr Jenifer Baxter works closely with Members to raise the profile of engineers and engineering potential, to generate discussion and provide thought leadership.
Jenifer’s enthusiasm for engineering comes from the incredible capabilities of humans to manipulate and change our environment for the good of society.
Jenifer is responsible for engaging with government, industry and academia, aiming to ensure that the engineering perspective is included in policy making, innovation and research and development. Bringing the views of Members, research and her knowledge of the sector together, Jenifer provides insight and opinion to the media ensuring greater awareness of engineers and their role.
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