Companies
Medtronic
Date
September 7, 2023
Industry
Medical Devices
Problems Identified
- Balancing optimizations. E.g., if reducing scrap in one part of the line decreases yield in a downstream process, it’s not worth doing. Can be difficult to detect these cases.
Role
Manufacturing Engineer
Summary
Claire works in a sustaining position on a line that makes batteries for implantable defibrillators. Her responsibilities are handling issues on the line, and taking on improvement projects to make processes more lean by e.g. reducing scrap.