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Root-causing failures in high-pressure pumps.

R&D Engineering Intern, Avanos Medical, May to Aug 2025

Built the test fixture, robot automation and analytics that traced electromechanical pump failures back to their cause.

$40Minventory covered by the CAPA
1000+hours of manual validation automated
95%faster failure analysis
6-axisrobot, C++ control software

A robot that repeats the test

C++ control software interpolates a 3D trajectory, computes joint kinematics and streams TCP commands to a 6-axis robot, so a thousand hours of hand validation run on their own.

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Drag the view to rotate. Illustrative robot and path.

Test fixture

A LabVIEW and NI myDAQ fixture reproduced the electromechanical failures on the bench and fed an ISO-compliant CAPA covering $40M of inventory.

Analytics

A CI/CD-deployed platform joined SAP and Salesforce data to catch SKU-level reporting discrepancies, cutting failure analysis time 95%.