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Zero Waiting Time at the Emergency Room
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2013)
Long waiting times at the Emergency Rooms are a problem that affects every hospital in Puerto Rico. The main causes of this problem are the lack of patients understanding the purpose of the ER and the inefficient use of ...
Automation of Guidewire Packaging Lines at ABBOTT Laboratories Vascular Division
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2013)
With the increasing demand for guidewires worldwide, Abbott decided to make changes in the manufacturing line in order to meet
these demands. In an evaluation of the manufacturing process, they considered that the area ...
Improve Major Changeover Procedure in MK0431AR Coating Area
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2013)
Today, most plants are running multiple products per line per day, including varieties of the same products, requiring many changeovers with the intense pressures to boost production efficiency, meet increasing consumer ...
Toxoplasma IgG Quality Control Testing Optimization
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2013)
This project explores a lean initiative of a multinational healthcare company related to a Toxoplasma IgG (protozoan parasite) quality control test. The objective was to reduce the test’s cycletime, material consumption ...
Value-Based Care: The Next Stage of Medical Finance
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2023)
The healthcare system in the USA has expanded the use of an alternative to its traditional fee-for-service programs. This paper is built on the need one Bayamon Medical Office has to develop a transition plan to change ...
Stamping Tooling Preventive Maintenance Project
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2023)
Eaton Corporation's Electrical Sector, a global leader in power management solutions, faces a critical challenge in the Stamping
Department's tooling equipment maintenance. The absence of a defined Preventive Maintenance ...
Vent to Roof Rainwater Occlusion and Management
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2023)
Safety relief devices in a pharmaceutical manufacturing start-up were found to be occluded by rainwater. The number of times
these vent lines were found to be occluded varied greatly and depended on weather conditions ...
Improving Dilator’s Line Capacity, Inventory, and Management Control
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2023)
This paper addresses operational challenges in Inari Medical's Dilator line, integral to Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) treatment
devices. The project focuses on inventory control, line capacity, and management control to ...
International Trade Compliance Response Time
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2021)
The objective of this project was to increase the overall performance of the International Trade Compliance (ITC) department
in Collins Aerospace and to reduce the average time it takes to close a classification request. ...
Optimization of Current Anodizing Line in Small Contract Manufacturing Company
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2023)
Titanium Color Anodizing is a process that consists in creating an oxide layer in the titanium surface to change the color of titanium components. As a highly used process in the medical implant industry, a small contract ...