In a wide-ranging interview, GM CDO Telva McGruder took us into the room of how GM partnered with Ventec to build ventilators to help save lives during the early days of the pandemic — and how that experience changed GM forever. It also helped them build the Hummer EV. How? Read on...
Never having produced anything remotely resembling ventilators before, it was all hands on deck. “We had people working weekends going in, scouting out facilities, seeing what was possible, what wasn't possible, in spaces that were available to modify.” Corralling engineers, safety, manufacturing and finance teams “together to figure out what can we do and how quickly, who can we partner with to help us with the technical knowhow….
She gave an example of their needing to put an elevator in an odd place in their building, and to do it over the weekend, “so that we could construct the production line in a place that was best suited for it.” After learning how to turn on a dime during the pandemic, she said, “we were able to do that. We were able to make a decision.
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