Engineering Management I MME3001 Semester 1 2014

Group D6Diego GarridoMatthew MclarenWei Shen

Profiles

• DIEGO GARRIDO

Discipline: 4th year Industrial Engineering

Experience: Investment Banking, Junior Analyst

• MATTHEW MCLAREN

Discipline: 3rd year Biomedical Engineering

Experience: Student

• WEI SHEN

Discipline: 3rd year Product Engineering, Industrial Design Hons. (comp)

Experience: Design, Mining Products, Junior PM, Design & Drafting

Outline

• Company Background & History

• Ethics & SWOT

• Sustainability & Environment

• Organisation & Management

• Project Plan

•For Each Point

•Summary & Objectives

Background & History

• American, Biomedical Laboratory Instruments,

• Global 6 continents

• Hospitals & Laboratories

• Instruments for Diagnosis, Treatment, Research of Causes and

Therapies, Future Prevention, Large Product Portfolio

• Started in 1935 by Dr. Arnold O. Beckman, inventor of pH meter

• Series of Acquisition and Expansion

• Acquired by Danaher in 2011

Ethics & SWOT

• Member of The Advance Medical Technology

Association (AdvaMed)

• AdvaMed Code of Ethics

• SWOT (Danaher)

• Global implications?

• Quality Control?

• Contradictions?

Innovation & Sustainability

• Research & Discovery

• Diagnostics

• Industrial

• Team merged in 2008

• Centrifuge System, 56% Less Heat & Less Energy

• Carbon Foot Print & Resource Target?

• Innovation & effectiveness?

Organisation & Management

•2011 Danaher Acquisition

•Danaher Corp, Conglomerate , Management Mogul

Behind a Long List of Corporations (see Wiki)

•Danaher Exective H. Lawrence Culp “Applied

Danaher Business System”

•Dold KPMG, Videojet “Million$ a Year Training Staff”

• What is Lean Thinking & DBS?

• How does this correlate to changes in

Beckman Coulter’s status quo?

Our Plan

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References

Beckman Coulter. 2013. Avanti J26-S, viewed 21 March 2014, <https://www.beckmancoulter.com/wsrportal/bibliography?docname=DS-16759.pdf.>Beckman Coulter. 2011. Beckman Coulter Company Milestones, viewed 21 March 2014 <https://www.beckmancoulter.com/ucm/idc/groups/public/documents/webasset/glb_bci_149520.pdf>Beckman Coulter. 2013. Energy-Efficient Centrifuge solutions, viewed 21 March 2014, <https://www.beckmancoulter.com/wsrportal/wsr/research-and-discovery/products-and-services/centrifugation/energy-efficient-centrifuges/index.htm>Beckman Coulter. 2014. Executive Team, viewed 21 March 2014, <https://www.beckmancoulter.com/wsrportal/wsr/company/about-us/executive-team/index.htm>Danaher Corporation 2013, Danaher Business System, Danaher Corporation, viewed 17 March 2014, <http://www.danaher.com/danaher-business-system>Dold, D., 2013, 'Danaher Business System - Implementing "real lean thinking", 7 February, viewed 18 March 2014, <http://www.lean-interim.com/danaher-business-system-implementing-real-lean-thinking/>Reed, V., 2012 'Beckman Reorganises, Adds to Fold in Brea', Orange County Business Journal, Vol.35, No.39, pg68