Prior
expectations:
I’m not so sure what to expect for this visit.
LifeTech is much about biological sciences, and I don’t have much interest for biology. If this turns out to be too much about biology, this might turn out to be boring.
However, there are things to look forward to. There will be a Product Development and Commercialisation workshop, which I think will definitely be fun. There is always the manufacturing line tour, which will be cool as well. Then, we will have a look around the LifeTech labs. Can’t wait to see what’s in store for me.
LifeTech is much about biological sciences, and I don’t have much interest for biology. If this turns out to be too much about biology, this might turn out to be boring.
However, there are things to look forward to. There will be a Product Development and Commercialisation workshop, which I think will definitely be fun. There is always the manufacturing line tour, which will be cool as well. Then, we will have a look around the LifeTech labs. Can’t wait to see what’s in store for me.
Post-journey
reflections:
The trip was a lot better than I expected!
The day started out with a brief introduction of the company. I’m quite surprised, really: some of the work they do here can prove to be revolutionary to mankind. Better medicines, more advanced crime forensics, and even cures for previously incurable diseases. This company can make things right!
At 50,000+ products and US$1b+ in revenue, LifeTech is the 2nd-highest earning biotech company in the world. Cool!
We then had hands-on with some of the company’s equipment, which was really exciting for me! I never expected the company to actually let us meddle with their equipment. Well, not really meddle, just get our hands on the equipment and try how to operate the interesting devices. There were some really cool devices that really “wowed” me. A sample tray with 3,000+ wells! That is really technologically advanced.
After having a good time in the LifeTech labs, we proceeded to have lunch and then had our Product Development and Commercialisation workshop. I learnt that many things and processes go into making a successful product. From product conceptualization to assembling the different products and testing the finished prototype, much effort is put into a product, successful or otherwise. Now I’ll appreciate something more when they suck! XD
After this, we went to have a little chat with a few of the workers at LifeTech here. A pretty educational discussion: I learnt that you don’t really have to specially study an area to be able to work in a certain job. There are some with a Chemical Engineering degree now working as a Digital Engineer. So now I can be assured that anything that I learn right now can definitely be applied to any job I end up in, provided that it has some relevance…
The final activity of the day was a tour around the assembly lines. Some of the products there take up to 2 days to produce per unit. That kind of shocked me since I thought assembly lines were supposed to be heavily automated. But they had manual workers there, and the products were mainly assembled by hand. I can still understand that, though, since demand for the devices isn’t so absurdly high that they need to produce like 10,000 units a day. The products LifeTech produce are mostly not for everyday consumer use, they are targeted at hospitals and other relevant organizations that actually have a use for the high-tech devices. So to have quite a slow rate of production is still acceptable under these circumstances. And I thought every assembly line was supposed to be automated with minimal manual labour!
It was a very long day, but certainly very meaningful!
The day started out with a brief introduction of the company. I’m quite surprised, really: some of the work they do here can prove to be revolutionary to mankind. Better medicines, more advanced crime forensics, and even cures for previously incurable diseases. This company can make things right!
At 50,000+ products and US$1b+ in revenue, LifeTech is the 2nd-highest earning biotech company in the world. Cool!
We then had hands-on with some of the company’s equipment, which was really exciting for me! I never expected the company to actually let us meddle with their equipment. Well, not really meddle, just get our hands on the equipment and try how to operate the interesting devices. There were some really cool devices that really “wowed” me. A sample tray with 3,000+ wells! That is really technologically advanced.
After having a good time in the LifeTech labs, we proceeded to have lunch and then had our Product Development and Commercialisation workshop. I learnt that many things and processes go into making a successful product. From product conceptualization to assembling the different products and testing the finished prototype, much effort is put into a product, successful or otherwise. Now I’ll appreciate something more when they suck! XD
After this, we went to have a little chat with a few of the workers at LifeTech here. A pretty educational discussion: I learnt that you don’t really have to specially study an area to be able to work in a certain job. There are some with a Chemical Engineering degree now working as a Digital Engineer. So now I can be assured that anything that I learn right now can definitely be applied to any job I end up in, provided that it has some relevance…
The final activity of the day was a tour around the assembly lines. Some of the products there take up to 2 days to produce per unit. That kind of shocked me since I thought assembly lines were supposed to be heavily automated. But they had manual workers there, and the products were mainly assembled by hand. I can still understand that, though, since demand for the devices isn’t so absurdly high that they need to produce like 10,000 units a day. The products LifeTech produce are mostly not for everyday consumer use, they are targeted at hospitals and other relevant organizations that actually have a use for the high-tech devices. So to have quite a slow rate of production is still acceptable under these circumstances. And I thought every assembly line was supposed to be automated with minimal manual labour!
It was a very long day, but certainly very meaningful!
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