WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.270 --> 00:00:01.488 I'm Brianna Hardy. 2 00:00:01.488 --> 00:00:05.790 I'm an associate manufacturing engineer at Medtronic. 3 00:00:05.790 --> 00:00:09.220 line:15% Yeah, so Medtronic is a company 4 00:00:09.220 --> 00:00:11.728 line:15% that produces medical devices. 5 00:00:11.728 --> 00:00:13.730 line:15% They have a wide range of devices 6 00:00:13.730 --> 00:00:18.730 line:15% from stints, pacemakers, diabetes monitors, 7 00:00:21.400 --> 00:00:25.040 as well as even some neuromodulation devices 8 00:00:25.040 --> 00:00:27.230 so all sorts of things. 9 00:00:27.230 --> 00:00:30.510 line:15% My role at the company is to help support 10 00:00:30.510 --> 00:00:33.870 line:15% the product line, so I get assigned certain products 11 00:00:33.870 --> 00:00:35.105 line:15% that I help support. 12 00:00:35.105 --> 00:00:38.100 line:15% So if there's issues on the floor with equipment 13 00:00:38.100 --> 00:00:41.600 line:15% or different materials that come in, 14 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:43.980 and there's questions, I have to go 15 00:00:43.980 --> 00:00:47.770 and help answer them, do a lot of problem solving. 16 00:00:47.770 --> 00:00:51.130 I also work on different projects, 17 00:00:51.130 --> 00:00:53.225 so long term and short term projects 18 00:00:53.225 --> 00:00:56.590 such as like new equipment, implementing that, 19 00:00:56.590 --> 00:01:00.823 line:15% doing the FDA regulation kind of side of it. 20 00:01:02.380 --> 00:01:07.360 line:15% I also work on helping with other projects in our site. 21 00:01:07.360 --> 00:01:11.330 line:15% So we do a lot of cross-functional work as well so. 22 00:01:11.330 --> 00:01:14.670 Some potential issues that a product could have 23 00:01:14.670 --> 00:01:18.245 is something like a piece of equipment breaks 24 00:01:18.245 --> 00:01:23.245 or basically dies and we don't have the spare parts 25 00:01:23.690 --> 00:01:24.523 to fix it. 26 00:01:24.523 --> 00:01:26.730 So then we have to figure out 27 00:01:26.730 --> 00:01:29.460 how we can get the parts in a timely manner 28 00:01:29.460 --> 00:01:31.613 to get production back up and running. 29 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:35.040 Another sort of problem that we deal with a lot 30 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:37.670 is materials will come in and they might be 31 00:01:37.670 --> 00:01:41.400 line:15% out of spec per our drawings that we have. 32 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:42.920 line:15% So then we have to determine, 33 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:44.510 line:15% what are we going to do with those products? 34 00:01:44.510 --> 00:01:46.455 line:15% Are we going to be able to use them still? 35 00:01:46.455 --> 00:01:49.460 line:15% Or are they unusable and we have to return them 36 00:01:49.460 --> 00:01:51.080 line:15% to the vendor? 37 00:01:51.080 --> 00:01:52.470 We also have to consider, is this 38 00:01:52.470 --> 00:01:53.710 going to shut our line down? 39 00:01:53.710 --> 00:01:55.930 Do we need these parts now? 40 00:01:55.930 --> 00:01:57.210 So there are a lot of different factors 41 00:01:57.210 --> 00:01:59.470 that go into all the different projects 42 00:01:59.470 --> 00:02:01.690 and things that happen, so. 43 00:02:01.690 --> 00:02:04.980 I also do a lot with documentation side of it, too. 44 00:02:04.980 --> 00:02:08.499 So looking at, is everything documented correctly? 45 00:02:08.499 --> 00:02:11.730 Do we have all the documents that we need? 46 00:02:11.730 --> 00:02:13.790 Is this going to be some sort of submission 47 00:02:13.790 --> 00:02:17.005 to like FDA or outside to the country 48 00:02:17.005 --> 00:02:20.610 like notified bodies that we use? 49 00:02:20.610 --> 00:02:22.900 Or is this just something that we simply just put 50 00:02:22.900 --> 00:02:26.570 in an annual report and we don't have to worry about it? 51 00:02:26.570 --> 00:02:27.403 So.