One customer is now rushing to build ventilators that might use printed circuit boards made by Green Circuits The managers at Green Circuits — a small Silicon Valley electronics factory — thought they would have to close when the San Francisco Bay Area directed non-essential businesses to shut almost three weeks ago.
But messages soon flowed in from customers telling them their parts were needed for things like medical and defense equipment.
One customer is now rushing to build ventilators that might use printed circuit boards made by Green Circuits. What happened next is occurring, in some form, at factories across the United States.