. >> phil kienle: the manifold that we had before... >> o'donnell: after one phone call with ventec, phil kienle, gm's vice president of north american manufacturing, got on a plane with three of his engineers. >> kienle: when we were on the flight to seattle, i asked everybody to have a mindset of what if your parents, your wife, one of your children had this covid disease, and absolutely needed one of these ventilators? how far would you go to get this thing into production? how fast would you move? >> o'donnell: and given the speed with which you needed to act, how did you go about sourcing 400 different parts for ventilators? >> kienle: our global purchasing and supply chain team really pulled off a miracle in sourcing this. we were in seattle on a friday. that same weekend, they were already sourcing the components for us. >> o'donnell: gm and ventec began transforming gm's kokomo, indiana facility virtually overnight, from one that made electronic car components to a ventilator factory. it was ideally suited because both products contain a lot of circuit boards. then they calle