TY  - BOOK
AU  - Srikant Sastri
AU  -  Amitabha Bandyopadhyay
TI  - VENTILATOR PROJECT : How the IIT Kanpur Consortium Built a World-Class Product During India's Covid-19 Lockdown
SN  - 9789389104660
U1  - 616.2414 
PY  - 2021////01/01
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Pan macmillan
KW  - Ventilator Project (India)
KW  - Medicine Health
KW  - Post Covid Period
KW  - Equipment industry
KW  - Motivational story
KW  - Respiratory therapy equipment industry
KW  - COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020---Research--India
N1  - A raging pandemic, a dearth of life-saving equipment, and ninety days to manufacture a world-class ventilator. On 24 March 2020, a nationwide lockdown was imposed in India in the face of a formidable adversary, the Covid-19 pandemic. With the number of cases increasing exponentially, hospitals were faced with a dangerous shortage of life-saving equipment and personnel. In response to the imminent crisis, Amitabha Bandyopadhyay and Srikant Sastri formed the IIT Kanpur ventilator Consortium as a task force to assist a young startup, Nocca Robotics, in building affordable high-quality ventilators for India’s cash-strapped hospitals. Under the mentorship of reputed industry leaders, the task force and the Nocca team worked tirelessly against unprecedented odds – trammelled by a ban on imports and telecommuting through Zoom and Whatsapp in the face of stringent lockdown restrictions – to manufacture the Noccarc V310 in record time. This is the incredible story of its conception, creation and success, in the words of the task force co-leaders themselves. Inspiring and riveting, The Ventilator Project also offers an unmatched blueprint for business in the post-Covid era through first-hand lessons gleaned during the task force’s phenomenal ninety-day run. It proves that India, with its deep recesses of talent and ingenuity, has the potential to be world leaders in both business and social impact
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