Medtronic plc (Dublin, Ireland) and Foxconn Industrial Internet, a business group within Foxconn Technology Group, announced that Foxconn has successfully completed Medtronic’s regulatory and quality requirements necessary to begin manufacturing Medtronic Puritan Bennett 560 (PB560) ventilators for Medtronic in the U.S.
The companies say they are currently ramping up plans to produce 10,000 PB560 ventilators over the next year at Foxconn’s Wisconn Valley Science and Technology Park in Mount Pleasant, Wis. The ventilators will be marketed and sold by Medtronic.
According to Medtronic, if needed, the companies can increase their production capability to more than double the current Foxconn ventilator commitment.
The partnership is a result of the connection the companies made after Medtronic publicly shared the design specifications for the PB560 through the Medtronic ventilator open source initiative, which launched earlier this year.