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These prodigious innovations in
modern medicine therefore benefit
from equally impressive innovations in
the actual production of the devices
themselves. Surgical robotics makers,
for example, often ask component makers
like Sava about the potential to
deploy a cellular manufacturing environment
surrounding the making of
key components.
So, not only are components makers
asked, " Can you make it? " But as critically,
albeit less ceremoniously, they are
also asked tough questions like, " how
will you do it, who will do it, and how
many can you do? " The list goes on and
on, and maybe surprisingly so, these
are among the most frequently asked
questions on which components makers
are pressed - and with good reason.
Production can't take a sick day
because someone got the sniffles. A
burr in a cable fitting cannot hold up
the entire day's productivity.
A dedicated manufacturing cell
pledges materials and equipment, along
with key and redundant skilled operations,
finishing and quality personnel to
production. As cellular production is
streamlined, time is recovered, and production
tempos improve. The coalescing
of talent, technology, speed, and
accountability represent an arrant recovery
of time getting a surgical robot to
market.
Seeing the Big Picture
There are many ways to do many
things. No one is arguing that there is a
single right and wrong way to source
components for the latest in surgical
robotics technology. Sources abound in
a global economy today now designed to
offer surgical robotics makers the freedom
to choose from a massive pool of
suppliers.
The question is therefore not necessarily
what options are available, but
rather what options give the robot
maker a wider stride than their competitors?
As a maker of the very motion control
cable going inside these marvels,
there is no single metaphor that should
better characterize the speed of a robot
maker's go-to-market strategy than a
" gazelle's stride. " And if sourcing from
multiple suppliers gets components purchased
and assembled, yet at the hindrance
of that stride, well then, a
sequoia just came tumbling down without
a sound. Where years have been
spent, millions invested and billions at
stake, a case can be made for reducing
variability in every facet of production,
despite the alluring availability of ubiquitous
sourcing alternatives and
methodologies.
This article was written by Scott Dailey, Vice
President of Sales and Marketing, Carl Stahl
Sava Industries, Riverdale, NJ. For more
information, visit http://info.hotims.com/
79409-345.
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