JR Automation partners with GM to deploy medical mask assembly line in six days
General Motors has begun producing face masks in response to the COVID-19 pandemic using a production line that JR Automation built in six days.
On March 21, GM approached Esys Automation, a JR Automation company, to build an assembly line capable of producing 50,000 masks a day. The automaker requested that the equipment be up and running in less than one week.
While GM prepped its Warren, Mich., clean room for installation, the leadership teams at Esys and JR Automation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., designed plans based on readily available parts.
JR Automation’s in-house machining and fabrication department designed and built customized machinery to assemble the masks, while builders at Esys Automation worked around the clock to assemble components, and the companies delivered the first equipment to GM on the morning of March 27.
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