This record of study describes work done in the capacity of Research and
Development (R&D) Engineer at Byrne Medical Incorporated, Conroe, TX. The
company manufactures accessories used for endoscopic irrigation. The endoscopy
system requires a supply of pressurized distilled water that is used by the physician for
certain procedures. It becomes the responsibility of the irrigation subsystem to fulfill this
need. It consists of a pressurization system, distilled water holder, tubing to convey this
to the endoscope and fittings to interface the tubing to the endoscope body. Byrne
Medical Inc. manufactures products from every stage of the system for many of the
larger endoscope manufacturers.
As an R&D Engineer, I was placed in the operations facility to aid the
engineering team in its role to develop, test, prototype and refine products. In performing
this role, I had to work with managers and staff from different functional areas of the
company. Projects did not stop with technical design; they called for effective
communication, planning and decision making.
This document covers salient projects completed during the course of the
internship. Designing an endoscopic irrigation pump to be sold in conjunction with an instrument cart was one. An automated measurement system comprising of
instrumentation interfaced with a personal computer and LabVIEW software is another.
To facilitate assembly, tools to insert plastic components into extruded tubes
were designed in SolidWorks. Another project that involved mechanical design and
elements of project management was designing a tubeset to be used with an Endoscopic
Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) system. This was done by Byrne
Medical Inc. for Boston Scientific Corporation, the manufacturers of the core ERCP
system.
These projects not only called for engineering skills but inputs from other
departments and personnel also. Inputs from regulatory affairs, technicians and clean
room staff were critical to the success of all these projects.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:tamu.edu/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2070 |
| Date | 15 May 2009 |
| Creators | Ramakanth, Vikram |
| Contributors | Lessard, Charles S |
| Source Sets | Texas A and M University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Book, Thesis, Electronic Dissertation, text |
| Format | electronic, application/pdf, born digital |
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