Assembly, February 1st, 2001
To maintain market leadership, Becton Dickinson had to reconfigure its operations to assemble new, more complicated medical devices--and do it quickly.
ON NOV. 6, 2000, PRESIDENT Clinton signed a law requiring health care facilities to use syringes and catheters with retractable needles to help prevent needle-related injuries and infections.
The law was no surprise to medical device manufacturer Becton, Dickinson and Co. (BD, Franklin Lakes, NJ). The company saw it coming in 1998 and recognized that it would be both an opportunity and a challenge. If the company was to capitalize on that o...
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