<div dir="ltr">I just read the following article in the Financial Times.<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=financial+times+muddled+thinking+punctures+plans+for+british+ventilator&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB812GB812&oq=financial+times+muddled+thinking+punctures+plans+for+british+ventilator&aqs=chrome..69i57.18042j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8">https://www.google.com/search?q=financial+times+muddled+thinking+punctures+plans+for+british+ventilator&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB812GB812&oq=financial+times+muddled+thinking+punctures+plans+for+british+ventilator</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>I've provided the Google link since the FT article appears to be behind a paywall.<br></div><div><br></div><div>For non-UK readers, the background is that in March 2020, the UK government encouraged UK companies to design and manufacture ventilators to help fight COVID-19. A number of companies responded, including Airbus, Dyson, Rolls-Royce and several Formula One teams.<br><br>The article seems to me to be very unfair to the engineering companies involved. If they were provided with incorrect or incomplete requirements, it's nor surprising that their designs proved to be unsuitable. While I accept that an alternative approach would have been to sub-contract the manufacturing of existing designs,. I don't think that would have been a trivial task either.<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p><a name="SignatureSanitizer_SafeHtmlFilter_UNIQUE_ID_SafeHtmlFilter__MailAutoSig"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Yours,</span></a></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Dewi Daniels | Director | Software Safety Limited</span><br></p><p><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Telephone +44 7968 837742 | Email </span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:purple"><a href="mailto:ddaniels@verocel.com" target="_blank">d</a><a href="mailto:ewi.daniels@software-safety.com" target="_blank">ewi.daniels@software-safety.com</a></span></p><p><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Software Safety Limited is a company registered in England and Wales. Company number: </font><font face="Arial, sans-serif">9390590</font><font face="Arial, sans-serif">. Registered office: Fairfield, 30F Bratton Road, West Ashton, Trowbridge</font><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">, United Kingdom </span><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">BA14 6AZ</span></p></div></div></div></div></div>