On Apr. 14, 2020, Philips announced that it had joined forces with manufacturing partners Flex and Jabil to further expand its hospital ventilator assembly lines and strengthen its global supply chain.

Fully featured hospital ventilators to invasively treat COVID-19 patients with respiratory insufficiency in critical care environments – such as the Philips Trilogy EV300 and Philips Respironics V60 – are complex medical devices. They contain more than 650 advanced, high-reliability components such as precision sensors and high performance motor blowers, as well as numerous complex software algorithms and more than one million lines of code.