Microsoft Office 2010 Customer Solution Case Study Medical Firm Accelerates Manufacturing Improvements with Shared Notebooks "With the OneNote-based solution, we are not Overview Country or Region: Australia duplicating effort around the same idea, which saves Industry: Manufacturing time and reduces rework.” Customer Profile Doug Gray, Director of Core Engineering, ResMed With operations in Australia, ResMed is a global leader in the development, manufacturing, and marketing of ResMed manufactures products that help people with sleep innovative medical products for the treatment and management of apnea and other respiratory conditions. ResMed aims to keep its respiratory disorders, with a focus on development and manufacturing costs low through process sleep-disordered breathing. improvement suggestions from its employees. Its Core Business Situation Engineering team was using a manual system both to capture ResMed wanted to change how its Core Engineering team collects, tracks, ideas for its Continuous Improvement initiative, and track the and reports on manufacturing process status of those ideas through evaluation and implementation. In recommendations. March 2010, ResMed deployed Microsoft Office 2010 and Solution Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, and created a solution based ResMed deployed the Microsoft Office 2010 suites and Microsoft SharePoint on Microsoft OneNote 2010 to develop and track new ideas. Server 2010. The Engineering team is ResMed expects its new solution to deliver faster using Microsoft OneNote 2010 to track manufacturing process improvement implementation of process improvements, leading to greater ideas. efficiency and cost savings. Benefits Reduced with faster improvement Improved productivity Faster resolution of design issues
Microsoft Office 2010 Customer Solution Case Study Medical Firm Accelerates Manufacturing Improvements with Shared Notebooks Overview Country or Region: Australia Industry: Manufacturing Customer Profile With operations in Australia, ResMed is a global leader in the development, manufacturing, and marketing of innovative medical products for the treatment and management of respiratory disorders, with a focus on sleep-disordered breathing. Business Situation ResMed wanted to change how its Core Engineering team collects, tracks, and reports on manufacturing process recommendations. Solution ResMed deployed the Microsoft Office 2010 suites and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. The Engineering team is using Microsoft OneNote 2010 to track manufacturing process improvement ideas. Benefits Reduced with faster improvement Improved productivity Faster resolution of design issues "With the OneNote-based solution, we are not duplicating effort around the same idea, which saves time and reduces rework.” Doug Gray, Director of Core Engineering, ResMed ResMed manufactures products that help people with sleep apnea and other respiratory conditions. ResMed aims to keep its development and manufacturing costs low through process improvement suggestions from its employees. Its Core Engineering team was using a manual system both to capture ideas for its Continuous Improvement initiative, and track the status of those ideas through evaluation and implementation. In March 2010, ResMed deployed Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, and created a solution based on Microsoft OneNote 2010 to develop and track new ideas. ResMed expects its new solution to deliver faster implementation of process improvements, leading to greater efficiency and cost savings.