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A project log for 2020 HDP Dream Team: Field Ready

The 2020 HDP Dream Teams are participating in a two month engineering sprint to address their nonprofit partner. Follow their journey here.

guptamguptam 07/18/2020 at 16:090 Comments

Hello folks !! 

We had an amazing live session yesterday and we hope you had the chance to see and be there, and hear our ideas out !! If not, here is the session: 

We really enjoyed this week of generating concept designs for the Field Ready Challenge !

 Highlights are: 

  1. A WhatsApp/messaging/automated bot interface for end-users to contact Field Ready when they have problems with the products they receive.
  2. An app which is user-friendly and integrates documentation, user feedback, and tracking of products altogether. There would be an option of choosing if you are a user or manufacturer or contractor:

For the user, they would be able to navigate to a questionnaire sort of page in order to record their responses / get feedback from them. There will also be a calling/contact option so that in cases of Rapid Response, they can immediately get Field Ready's service or help ! 

For the manufacturer, there will be visual documentation, videos of testing modules and risk-assessment plan checklists ! This would make it easier for the manufacturer to add/edit/delete whatever they need to in accordance with the design of the products. It would also help create a culture of testing, QA, QC, and documentation -- leading to a robust tracking and testing system.

For the FR employees / contractors, there will be validation/inspection checklists to ensure product traceability and tracking integrated with QC. 

3. We are exploring the use of recycled aluminum cans to make metal information plates out of them for labeling systems !! And we are also exploring 3D printed engraved/embossed text in the design or even using a label marker ! We are exploring more options and will come down to two ideas or so in order to have a labeling toolkit for both types of products - short-term and long-term. 

We will come back with more updates soon !! Stay tuned for more information !!

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