Our client has multiple sterilization sites across the globe, and audits are performed on a frequent basis to ensure health and safety standards are met. But many of their processes are outdated and inconsistent, and maintained as tribal knowledge.
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Myself, a Business Analyst, Product Manager, two tech leads and a team of developers — were challenged with building an all-in-one platform to digitally transform our client’s business.
Technicians, scheduling orders to be approved for processing in radiation cells
Operational success managers, overseeing site ongoings and performance
IT professionals, administering the tool on a daily basis
Difficulty gleaning insights on site efficiency and performance at a glance
Inconsistent processes and onboarding practises across sites
Inefficient auditing, and outdated paper trail work order approval processes
One of the big changes we made to the interface was going from a calendar component to a custom design. Our original concepts relied on conventional calendar components as a foundation to the solution. But it wasn’t enough to provide technicians with the granularity needed for tasks at hand.
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Schedulers design the schedule for processing work orders. They accommodate work order dose range requirements to meet a regulatory standard for sterilization, considering the irradiation source decay. It ultimately affects how long a work order should be irradiated for to meet required dose specifications.
We shipped two modules for the application suite:
Administration module — allowing IT to configure users, sites, and log irradiation sources
Scheduler — providing a seamless integration with data automatically flowing in from Oracle databases, and allowing schedulers to create and send their schedules for approval within one tool
Our latest iteration of designs are continuing to receive exposure to a pool of our target users. I’m excited to report back more of our findings here soon!
Delicate relations existed between client and company before my arrival. Thus the project scope and timeline remained rigid - sacrificing quality, forcing us to let details fall through cracks.
Due to project pace to scope ratio, finding the right times to solicit feedback were difficult; I employed different methods in attempts to make it easier to participate in this crucial activity.
The level of design maturity on both client and company side were low, creating friction when advocating for effort to be spent on research and design.
Although it was a very difficult project to navigate, I grew the most from it. Now from these learnings, I’ll have a chance to excel working on my next big project. 🌞
