Visit Coloplast!
- 9:45 a.m.: Depart campus from Northrop
- 10 a.m.: Arrive at Coloplast
- 10:15 a.m.: Introduction and overview
- 10:30 a.m.: Production and labs tour (cadaver lab, test lab, cleanroom, warehouse, manufacturing labs)
- 11 a.m.: Product development process (PDP) overview (review the PDP cycle and discuss the various engineering roles and duties at different stages)
- 11:45 a.m.: Lunch and Q&A panel
- 12:45 p.m.: Depart back to campus
Coloplast develops products and services designed to make life easier for people with personal and private medical conditions. By working closely with those who use its products, the company creates solutions that are sensitive to their specific needs. Coloplast refers to this as intimate healthcare. Its business includes ostomy care, continence care, wound and skin care, interventional urology, and voice and respiratory care.
The company operates globally and employs approximately 14,500 people. Coloplast Minneapolis is one of the primary hubs for the interventional urology team. The Minneapolis site hosts most of the company’s engineering functions, including research and development, quality, product development, process development, and manufacturing.
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