(CNN) Ford plans to make as many as 50,000 simple ventilators for coronavirus patients within 100 days and plans to continue producing 30,000 per month after that, the company announced Monday.

The automaker said it will make the ventilators at its Rawsonville Components Plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The factory will be staffed by 500 United Auto Workers union members who have volunteered to work on the project, Ford said.

being made by Florida-based Airon Corp. and has been licensed by GE Healthcare. Ford F The ventilator is currentlybeing made by Florida-based Airon Corp. and has been licensed by GE Healthcare.has been working with GE Healthcare to help it increase its ventilator output.

The Airon Model A-E ventilator that Ford will produce operates on air pressure alone and requires no electricity. Airon currently makes three of the ventilators per day at its factory in Melbourne, Florida. Ford's plant will produce the ventilators around the clock with three shifts of workers, Ford said, and it will make 7,200 of the devices per week.

Ford is also working with GE Healthcare to increase GE's own production of its more advanced ventilators. It's also working on designing a simplified GE Healthcare ventilator device that Ford could also produce.

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