Intuitive
- Bad ERP setup makes line “copy-and-paste” very difficult.
Manufacturing Engineer
- Austin is a tenured ME at Intuitive, experience in robotics systems for medical devices as well as parts like catheters. - PFMEAs in medical device context don’t generally add requirements onto vendor like they do at Tesla, generally “take machine as you get it”. - 50% of job on NPI is doing qualification, including writing and in-process monitoring. High-risk processes are the worst because the qualification process is really long. - < 10% of job on monitoring in his business unit. His peers “want NOTHING to do with this”. - In catheter role, was responsible for moving production lines. - Very long discussion on constructing traveler/BOM during production line movement, issues they have with part scaling.