Challenge

As an industry leader in healthcare transportation solutions, this company has benefited from Coridian’s healthcare expertise for many years. The company transports very sensitive materials making tracking, security and accountability essential. They needed a simple solution that gave them the ability to do all of these things and still continued to offer the quick service turn-around their customers expected. They also needed a solution that met FDA requirements for health and safety that provided proof that they tracked items by unique ID number.

Solution

Coridian provided the medical device manufacturer with a fully portable “scan and reprint” solution, which involved on-the-fly part label and lot label replication for updating assembly parts and bins in their manufacturing facility. Coridian’s custom program gives a mobile terminal the ability to interpret the master label and reproduce the information so they can print and apply a new label on every component they receive. The company needed a label that was compact enough to apply to the small parts but big enough for a barcode and a verbal description of the part. The label also had to have a removable adhesive as some labels need to be taken off during the manufacturing process. Coridian helped the manufacturer develop a custom label to meet these needs.

As the parts go into production, they scan each part as it moves down the line. This not only helps track every component in inventory but also creates a build manifest for every ventilator as it travels through production.

Results

With their new system, the medical device manufacturer has the ability to track and trace each part, which is important for FDA compliance and quality control. They now know the history and origin of each component of every ventilator, documented and traceable at any time. In addition, the company’s inventory management changes improved their on-time delivery to 98%.

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