Becton Dickinson Internship
Becton Dickinson is a manufacturer and supplier of medical devices, instrument Systems and reagents. They were founded in 1897 in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey but now they cover the globe and employ roughly 50000 people. I interned at their facility in Hunt Valley Maryland. This plants mainly produces agar plates also known as Petri Dishes along with many other solutions that could be used for medical reasons.
While I interned their I worked on a large project of going through all their paper files and removing the ones that are no longer in use and updating the current labels in their ERP as to turn their old inefficient paper database into a digital one paired to their ERP. Along with this I also updated a large amount of processes used to make agar and other chemicals in the ERP, all of these projects required constant awareness and multiple revisions due to being involved with healthcare everything they do is highly regulated and monitored.
After all the files were updated they had then needed to be tested on the new label machines before they can be used for production. Once again due to the high regulations of the medical Industry and Becton Dickinson’s high level of quality control I had to test every one of the new label machines which consisted of printing 10000 labels of every type and checking them with a barcode gun to make sure the labels came out looking perfect and working perfectly everytime. Working for such a large well run company it was very interesting to see all the things they do to keep it running so efficently along with the large amount of quality control they put their products through.