Medical Device Courses | Hiren Rana | Activity https://medicaldevicecourses.com/members/hiren-rana/activity/ Activity feed for Hiren Rana. Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:22:27 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 075c6325aa7ba02ff064bd75cd5e6d5c Hiren Rana replied to the topic "Engineer vs. Manager" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/12551/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:57:04 -0400 I agree you and say that I would like to work as an engineer for maybe 6-7 years and then move up to a managing role. I have always seen myself as some sort of manager and I think that…   Read more»

]]> 1e876cc6858f8caf65f4e409dd7101d6 Hiren Rana replied to the topic "Why do people leave work?" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/12550/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:57:03 -0400 I think that a lot of people leave work because they are not challenged anymore. I remember talking to someone who was leaving a company and I asked then why they wanted to leave and they told me that it…   Read more»

]]> b233b28a95c94df7ef3739fe3dd66063 Hiren Rana replied to the topic "Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/12549/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:57:03 -0400 From interning at Zimmer, I received a Six Sigma Yellow Belt certification. This wasn’t through ASQ (American Society for Quality), but it was through the company. So an ASQ certification is the official certification given to you by an organization….   Read more»

]]> 30397c74cdd5b704b42c5c13d7287338 Hiren Rana replied to the topic "Let's Be Motivated!!!" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/12485/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:56:26 -0400 As mentioned above, a manager’s level of motivation plays a huge role in how the team is motivated. If the manager does not show that much interest in the project – the employees will see it as a project that…   Read more»

]]> cd2e64862cdb57d5f3a783947bbc1663 Hiren Rana replied to the topic "What’s Your Motivator?" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/12460/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:56:15 -0400 The thing that motivates me the most is knowing that what I help create will one day end up inside someone – making their life better. As a BME, we have an innate feel to improve patient care through physical…   Read more»

]]> fe600ebee00410692309bda2abfbc9ab Hiren Rana replied to the topic "Why do people work?" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/12459/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:56:14 -0400 I too am not surprised by the results of this study. Everyone that I’ve encountered in the workforce are genuinely excited to work. In my experience, I have not met a person that is unmotivated or sluggish because he or…   Read more»

]]> 5f2817820e969f6bfb53ee186a65ab6c Hiren Rana replied to the topic "Organizational structure" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/12373/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:55:24 -0400 I did not experience this first hand, but I was part of huge project where the company was shifting from one sterilization method to another. This project involved every single department and it was really a company wide effort. I’m…   Read more»

]]> aa98ddc180ed4faf6e9c7666bf224b28 Hiren Rana replied to the topic "Integration PM" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/12372/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:55:24 -0400 During one of my internships, I had one big project that I had to divide up into several smaller parts. Each individual component used a whole different set of tools and doing them all at the same time would only…   Read more»

]]> a1cc28f167051ea2335b3bdb1007752d Hiren Rana replied to the topic "Risk Management" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/12297/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:54:38 -0400 One of the projects that I worked on was to look at prints and analyze the prints for any errors or risks. I was given a CAD file of the design and had to run FEA on the design and…   Read more»

]]> 72c2727d775302e76c6a1e464af1e4d6 Hiren Rana replied to the topic "Design Review Meeting Culture" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/12296/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:54:38 -0400 I’ve had the experience to sit in on a design review meeting and what I noticed was the culture was not as strict as I thought. There was a moderator who was basically the person that called the meeting together….   Read more»

]]> cadc7e4e1ea76bcae9a16092d12c7e74 Hiren Rana replied to the topic "Ideal PM Processes vs. Real life" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/12295/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:54:37 -0400 From what I experienced in the industry, ideally the project should follow Initiating, Planning, Executing, Closing process but as the project continues you’ll find yourself still going back and forth – but not to a degree that will significantly cause…   Read more»

]]> de574109fea8907a5adff516c387847b Hiren Rana replied to the topic "Importance of Logging Work" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/12179/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:53:32 -0400 For one of my projects at work I had to figure out a way to sort through a whole bunch of data and easily find something that was needed. Because we use MATLAB in school, I decided to use MATLAB…   Read more»

]]> 713f1377f9a9e6e5af282cef0f46205c Hiren Rana replied to the topic "Cost Analysis of Project" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/12178/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:53:32 -0400 For my capstone project, we were required to set up a budget and track the changes as we have to purchase material. One of our costliest materials is a resin used to 3D print the material that our final product…   Read more»

]]> 32afa11468ca21dc6fbbefba73da249a Hiren Rana replied to the topic "Design Review Meeting" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/12177/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:53:31 -0400 I had the chance of sitting in on a design review meeting – although I was not an active participant in the review. I thought it was an interesting experience and I learned quite a bit from it. One thing…   Read more»

]]> c57463d01358b6cd4f3beb9890bde476 Hiren Rana replied to the topic "Source Selection in Executing Process" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/12108/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:52:51 -0400 I sort of agree with what you are saying, and had the same question. Obviously when looking at vendors, one must take into account the price of their raw materials and the services that they perform. I agree that something…   Read more»

]]> b7f27e92eac5f89e844fd371dbe5651c Hiren Rana replied to the topic "PM: Handling Team Issues" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/12102/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:52:48 -0400 These issues are common in any industry. There will always be people that are unavailable due to vacation or sick leave. This can impact the life-cycle of the project and possibly delay some parts of the process. The key to…   Read more»

]]> 7dee691199a8ca7f35e7e8afa59839a8 Hiren Rana replied to the topic "Challenges PM face" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/12101/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:52:48 -0400 I think another big issue that’s faced by project managers is proper risk management. Typically whenever you don’t know the answer to something, you have to follow proper risk management process. Risk management is the process of identifying, analyzing and…   Read more»

]]> d8453653dfc6db55d845737352154474 Hiren Rana replied to the topic "Are Missed Milestones really Bad?" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/12038/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:52:15 -0400 I agree with a lot of the posts in this thread. I also believe that missing a milestone is a bad thing. While I do understand the point that you are trying to bring up in that a delay is…   Read more»

]]> 496aa8ead76fd634ce4ede713ab4a13f Hiren Rana replied to the topic "PM Internationally" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/12037/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:52:14 -0400 I think that in general the entire project management “outline” is similar regardless of the industry or the country. There may be minor nuances that are different but overall, the concept is relatively similar. When I was interning, there was…   Read more»

]]> 3a7409c6d70a2e6e8e75852658f87b12 Hiren Rana replied to the topic "Benefits of this course" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/12036/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:52:13 -0400 This is also my first course with Dr. Simon. I am currently in my last semester of my undergrad and I have had a couple of interviews for full-time positions. In all of those interviews I’ve been asked about FDA…   Read more»

]]> fef3272d17f3c1234165baf15be3b17a Hiren Rana replied to the topic "Experience Breaking Down A Project" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/11932/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:51:14 -0400 One of the big projects going on around the time I was interning was this change from one method of sterilization technique to a new method of sterilization technique. The project manager had broken down the schedule into different phases….   Read more»

]]> c3f54f09e20a4642c28607265023ab98 Hiren Rana replied to the topic "Missing a Milestone Experience" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/11914/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:50:59 -0400 For my capstone project, I had to follow a schedule I made on microsoft project. We had allocated a certain amount of time for a specific part of the project. The week before we ran into an issue with whatever…   Read more»

]]> f32ac525c1cdbdfafa8d8a162d0f54e1 Hiren Rana replied to the topic "Revising a Gantt Chart" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/11913/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:50:58 -0400 I think this would be a critical part of the entire scheduling for the project. The balloon did not do what it was supposed to and as a result, whatever comes after in the schedule will be delayed. In terms…   Read more»

]]> 5c37057597d21fc88ea282633072c145 Hiren Rana replied to the topic "Risk Management" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/11878/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:50:39 -0400 At Zimmer, I was involved with a project where the Case Development team was designing and launching a new case for a product. The case was for a total knee replacement and had compartments for all the tools a surgeon…   Read more»

]]> 5ecc73d70c63932487b37bb60443553c Hiren Rana replied to the topic "Discussion Topic: The critical path" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/11876/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:50:37 -0400 Surprisingly, I actually ran into this last semester during my capstone project. I am trying to make a transparent skull to study the effects of traumatic brain injuries and in order to do that I have to get proper geometry…   Read more»

]]> e31cd684a26dfb215a71233ffa845b07 Hiren Rana replied to the topic "Discussion Topic: Integrating Six Sigma into Project Planning" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/11874/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:50:35 -0400 I agree that the Six Sigma tool has some applications with the Project Planning Process. We looked at the PPP in terms of initiating, planning, executing, and closing. In all of those steps, monitoring and controlling is involved. During the…   Read more»

]]> ecb595bf30d178761c63506bffe9f9d9 Hiren Rana replied to the topic "General Wellness Product" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/11793/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:49:47 -0400 I think helmets could be considered a general wellness device. Helmets are used to provide support to your head and lower the risk of injury. It provides the basic necessities to reduce the risk of traumatic brain injuries to a…   Read more»

]]> 5223020ab724eba97f3d41c1a7fce576 Hiren Rana replied to the topic "Fitbit: A Medical-Grade Device?" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/11791/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:49:46 -0400 I agree with the majority of the people in that fitbit is not a medical device. It does not pose a risk to the user. It is intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions. The fitbit…   Read more»

]]> 7557d72af18ab0642e8698db017b86a0 Hiren Rana replied to the topic "Ideal project team" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/11790/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:49:46 -0400 I think a good team consists of: A sponsor. At the end of the day, you need to submit your project. The project sponsor is the person that reviews the results of your project and checks and makes sure that…   Read more»

]]> 573a4f92e5b3fc3018f88c40825456da Hiren Rana replied to the topic "Significant or non-significant risk" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/11581/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:47:51 -0400 I agree with the above post but, I think the criteria in general have to be further explained. If you look at the requirements from the site all of them say “serious risk”. This brings up the question in the…   Read more»

]]> fd867ecffb42a487a6da04e762133f75 Hiren Rana replied to the topic "Meat without Murder" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/11564/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:47:41 -0400 I would agree with the above posts that an artificial organ would be a class III device. Class III devices are typically the ones that pose the greatest risk to a patient and as you can imagine an artificial heart,…   Read more»

]]> 8665ae179420e7ce19e00ea049810f21 Hiren Rana replied to the topic "Mobile Medical Applications" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/11563/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:47:41 -0400 I agree with pretty much everyone on this post regarding the fact that your device would be considered a mobile medical app. The fact that your capstone project actually served as a method to TRAIN users to hear auditory cues…   Read more»

]]> 96f4cda245fccd7649a944db767d6a56 Hiren Rana replied to the topic "Discussion Topic: State of your Organization" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/11484/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:45:21 -0400 After working at Zimmer-Biomet and Stryker, I realized that they were both functional organizations. This means that that organization is divided into groups for different specialized functions (IT, R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, etc.). The advantage of this is because everyone who…   Read more»

]]> 35d9bb85f72be9328924d5205b49d3e7 Hiren Rana replied to the topic "Discussion Topic: GMP's" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/11483/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:45:20 -0400 Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) are systems in place that ensure that a product is being made according to current regulations. This means that it meets quality standards, production standards, and regulatory standards. While working in quality engineering at Zimmer-Biomet,…   Read more»

]]> bf6a0cc2bce02ca9ef770e6fcefd1765 Hiren Rana replied to the topic "Discussion Topic: Projects of all types" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/11480/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:45:18 -0400 Overall, I believe that project management ultimately depends on the way you look at the project, whether it is the same industry or within several industries. While all projects follow the same PDCA cycle as mentioned by someone in an…   Read more»

]]> a5bcb71d28ac7a4021ae2099b70eff3c Hiren Rana posted a new topic "Procurement Management" - https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/10511/ Wed, 15 May 2019 16:34:08 -0400 One of the topics that we learned this week is Procurement Management. What this entails is essentially handling processes that require goods and services from an outside organization via raw materials, services, etc. Ideally, you want to get a good…   Read more»

]]> 415c5f272b596e9ec2f7efd93bfe4886 Hiren Rana replied to the topic Engineer vs. Manager in the forum Project Management Application: Clinical Trial https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/2478/ Fri, 28 Apr 2017 19:03:18 -0400 I agree you and say that I would like to work as an engineer for maybe 6-7 years and then move up to a managing role. I have always seen myself as some sort of manager and I think that it would be a good fit for me personally. I want to work as an engineer for quite some time because I really want to be able to understand that processes and…[Read more]

]]> 0 7fe7fc3d96929461987e3db9508df9d1 Hiren Rana replied to the topic Why do people leave work? in the forum Project Management Application: Clinical Trial https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/2477/ Fri, 28 Apr 2017 18:53:14 -0400 I think that a lot of people leave work because they are not challenged anymore. I remember talking to someone who was leaving a company and I asked then why they wanted to leave and they told me that it was because the work was becoming boring. They were essentially doing the same thing everyday with no variations. Additionally, they were not…[Read more]

]]> 0 64fc9c379a96de5beede2d033d16f5dd Hiren Rana replied to the topic Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate in the forum Project Management Application: Clinical Trial https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/2476/ Fri, 28 Apr 2017 18:47:11 -0400 From interning at Zimmer, I received a Six Sigma Yellow Belt certification. This wasn’t through ASQ (American Society for Quality), but it was through the company. So an ASQ certification is the official certification given to you by an organization. To get a yellow belt, I took a course on six sigma – learning the ins and outs of the DMAIC…[Read more]

]]> 0 3ffeaa57815b8b7bd0aa03cd0bf93b31 Hiren Rana replied to the topic Let's Be Motivated!!! in the forum Project Management Application: Clinical Trial https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/2379/ Sun, 23 Apr 2017 04:48:34 -0400 As mentioned above, a manager’s level of motivation plays a huge role in how the team is motivated. If the manager does not show that much interest in the project – the employees will see it as a project that is not important and likewise will not show interest as well. The manager’s goal is to ensure that information is carried over from top…[Read more]

]]> 0 8b114e5da76efaac26af23048220eb21 Hiren Rana replied to the topic What’s Your Motivator? in the forum Project Management Application: Clinical Trial https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/2348/ Fri, 21 Apr 2017 04:33:48 -0400 The thing that motivates me the most is knowing that what I help create will one day end up inside someone – making their life better. As a BME, we have an innate feel to improve patient care through physical products or research.

However, on a more direct level, I am really motivated by the satisfaction of fixing issues. In one of my previous…[Read more]

]]> 0 a52a09a8382b5a0b2ebf91670494a890 Hiren Rana replied to the topic What’s Your Motivator? in the forum Project Management Application: Clinical Trial https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/2347/ Fri, 21 Apr 2017 04:33:48 -0400 The thing that motivates me the most is knowing that what I help create will one day end up inside someone – making their life better. As a BME, we have an innate feel to improve patient care through physical products or research.

However, on a more direct level, I am really motivated by the satisfaction of fixing issues. In one of my previous…[Read more]

]]> 0 6a987ff8f2dabcd8825aedf5b924e231 Hiren Rana replied to the topic Why do people work? in the forum Project Management Application: Clinical Trial https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/2346/ Fri, 21 Apr 2017 04:18:35 -0400 I too am not surprised by the results of this study. Everyone that I’ve encountered in the workforce are genuinely excited to work. In my experience, I have not met a person that is unmotivated or sluggish because he or she does not want to work. I think for me personally, one of the reasons why I really like working is because I believe in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 21c9d88a335b5485c3f0b92200c6a3db Hiren Rana replied to the topic Why do people work? in the forum Project Management Application: Clinical Trial https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/2345/ Fri, 21 Apr 2017 04:18:35 -0400 I too am not surprised by the results of this study. Everyone that I’ve encountered in the workforce are genuinely excited to work. In my experience, I have not met a person that is unmotivated or sluggish because he or she does not want to work. I think for me personally, one of the reasons why I really like working is because I believe in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 d53d611b8094450999bc32f72ae8f145 Hiren Rana started the topic Procurement Management in the forum Project Management Knowledge Areas https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/2236/ Fri, 14 Apr 2017 01:07:22 -0400 One of the topics that we learned this week is Procurement Management. What this entails is essentially handling processes that require goods and services from an outside organization via raw materials, services, etc. Ideally, you want to get a good grasp of your project and a good understanding of the scope to come up with a list of goods and…[Read more]

]]> 0 7e7d0f205f8031873d0cc650c6710486 Hiren Rana replied to the topic Organizational structure in the forum Project Management Knowledge Areas https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/2235/ Fri, 14 Apr 2017 00:35:15 -0400 I did not experience this first hand, but I was part of huge project where the company was shifting from one sterilization method to another. This project involved every single department and it was really a company wide effort. I’m sure you can imagine that when you have to shift sterilization methods, the sterility team plays a huge role in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 530833a0e3831dfa66a39356bf53c380 Hiren Rana replied to the topic Integration PM in the forum Project Management Knowledge Areas https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/2234/ Fri, 14 Apr 2017 00:27:38 -0400 During one of my internships, I had one big project that I had to divide up into several smaller parts. Each individual component used a whole different set of tools and doing them all at the same time would only confuse me. So essentially, what I ended up doing was spending a lot of time on the critical part of the project and really focusing on…[Read more]

]]> 0 3c652910ff33afde6ddb3b450b4840eb Hiren Rana replied to the topic Risk Management in the forum Project Management Process and Medical Device Development https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/2146/ Sat, 08 Apr 2017 21:20:22 -0400 One of the projects that I worked on was to look at prints and analyze the prints for any errors or risks. I was given a CAD file of the design and had to run FEA on the design and look at areas of high stress or potential failures. As an intern, I wasn’t given a critical component but just to get the experience I was given a case that contained…[Read more]

]]> 0 8089da50a946ff41bda1ddc868057236 Hiren Rana replied to the topic Design Review Meeting Culture in the forum Project Management Process and Medical Device Development https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/2145/ Sat, 08 Apr 2017 21:15:36 -0400 I’ve had the experience to sit in on a design review meeting and what I noticed was the culture was not as strict as I thought. There was a moderator who was basically the person that called the meeting together. He made sure every detail was given a chance to be talked about. The documents had to be reviewed prior to the meeting by the reviewers…[Read more]

]]> 0 140456024dc10f81090037aa02d51852 Hiren Rana replied to the topic Ideal PM Processes vs. Real life in the forum Project Management Process and Medical Device Development https://medicaldevicecourses.com/activity/p/2144/ Sat, 08 Apr 2017 21:09:34 -0400 From what I experienced in the industry, ideally the project should follow Initiating, Planning, Executing, Closing process but as the project continues you’ll find yourself still going back and forth – but not to a degree that will significantly cause delays. If you think about it, it’s really hard to plan everything before execution and…[Read more]

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