Merline Hidayat worked as a manufacturing engineer intern at Bio-Rad in their LSG manufacturing documentation division. Some of her responsibilities included working on the provider database project, processing change requests, and creating assembly procedures. She developed the provider database to list all important part specifications and streamline the ordering process. She also created assembly procedures, like for the Tetrad 2 assembly, to provide manual instructions. Overall, she gained experience in manufacturing engineering documentation during her internship at Bio-Rad.

1. MANUFACTURING
ENGINEERING
DOCUMENTATION
Merline Hidayat
LSG Manuf. Operation Div.
6000 James Watson Dr.
Hercules, CA 94547
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2. Profile
Name : Merline Hidayat
Major : Bioengineering
School : UC Berkeley, 5th
year
Grad : Dec 2008

3. Internship at Bio-Rad 1/2
• Position
– Manufacturing engineer
– LSG manufacturing documentation
Bio-net.bio-rad.com

4. • Responsibilities
– Provider database project
– Change request (CR)
– Assembly procedure (AP)
– etc.
Internship at Bio-Rad 2/2

5. Entire
company
Purchasing
Provider Database 1/4
• Bio-Rad provider database
Baan
Enterprise
Resource
Planning
(ERP)
Product
Data
Management
(PDM)
Manufacturing
That’s my
work!

6. earthissquare.com
• Before using the database, ordering parts
is like …
Provider Database 2/4
Got
confused?

7. Provider Database 3/4
• PLM database lists all
important things.

8. • Each item has specifications.
Provider Database 4/4
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9. Change Request 1/3
7225 ?
• Mistake or change is inevitable.
• Changes have to be traceable.

10. Change Request 2/3

11. Change Request 3/3

12. Assembly Procedure (AP) 1/8
• Manual instruction for any assembly
• Case example : Tetrad 2
– Transferred from a smaller company in
Waltham, Massachusetts

13. Assembly Procedure (AP) 2/8

14. Assembly Procedure (AP) 3/8

15. Assembly Procedure (AP) 4/8

16. Assembly Procedure (AP) 5/8

17. Assembly Procedure (AP) 6/8

18. Final product
Assembly Procedure (AP) 7/8

19. • My training was to create an AP for an
easy assembly.
Assembly Procedure (AP) 8/8

20. My Workplace
(Why you should envy the 6000 Bldg)
1) Hawaiian shirt day
2) I can stare at the sea as long as I want
3) Social ice cream event
4) Ice cream vending machine
5) T.G.I Fridays
Things Learned

21. People Behind the Science

22. The Coffee/ Tea Machine
Behind the People

23. Scenery From Around
6000 Building

24. Thank you, Bio-Rad!
• Special thanks to
– My supervisors : Anthony Limjoco & Francis
Hwang
– My mentor : Amy Schwartz
– All friendly co-workers: Rosalinda, Frank,
Randy, Asif, Leslie, Wendell, Kelly, etc.