Lamborghini develops 3D-printed breathing simulators

MANILA: Automobili Lamborghini’s R&D people have teamed up with Italy’s top manufacturer of ventilators, Siare Engineering International Group, to co-engineer and produce breathing simulators for deployment in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a release, the sports car maker said that the breathing simulator will “enable the tester to carry out an initial evaluation of the ventilator’s performance before reaching the final checking stage, when the ventilator undergoes a comprehensive test using certified equipment.”

The past two weeks, Lamborghini had conscripted its 3D printing lab to design, produce, and validate the simulator – optimizing components producing the same.

The company earlier leveraged departments of its Sant’Agata manufacturing plant to produce medical equipment such as surgical masks and protective plexiglass medical shields for frontliners. Lamborghini’s saddlery artisans, who make its vehicles’ interiors and other special customized touches, are able to make 1,000 masks a day which are then donated to a Bologna hospital.

Meanwhile, the medical shields are produced along with the breathing simulators for Siare using a highly precise HP Jet Fusion 3D 4200 printer with MJF (multi-jet fusion) technology.

The collaboration with Siare, along with the effort alongside the University of Bologna’s Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences in making surgical masks and medical shields, is seen as “a testament to Lamborghini’s societal commitment and its capability to use advanced technologies in battling the pandemic.”

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