Introduction In the story of the Sole Remaining Supplier‚ a company who supplied pacemaker equipment was debating on whether or not they should continue due to numerous ethical issues. The company‚ also the sole remaining suppliers‚ felt that they should discontinue selling equipment because if the product stopped working‚ it could lead to major lawsuits and they did not want to deal with these ethical issues. In this paper‚ I will apply steps A through D of the Utility Test to this case and
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study where there is only one sole remaining supplier in a particular industry. The particular case deals with a sole supplier of resistors used in pacemakers. The case study involving the sole remaining supplier on transistors a key input component on a pacemaker is where problems arise. The first case of utilitarianism is brought up when the debate is started at a board meeting. During its infancy stage as a product it was noted the number of lives a pacemaker was responsible for due to malfunctioning
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Assignment Title: The Case of the Sole Remaining Supplier Scenario The heart pacemaker is a modern wonder. The device has a timer that resets itself every time the patient’s heart beats. If the heart does not beat on schedule (say‚ within 1.2 seconds)‚ the pacemaker gives a stimulus that causes a heartbeat. You are on the board of directors of a company that makes transistors. Among the many companies with whom you have a contract is one that makes heart pacemakers. Pacemaker technology is in its infancy
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reading the two articles ¨Thinking Ethically¨ which reviews theoretical approaches to ethical decision making‚ ¨A Framework for Ethical Decision Making¨ which describes a model of ethical decision making and ¨The Case of the Sole Remaining Supplier¨ which talk about the heart pacemaker and how is it important and many people agree with it and how each of the board member share different opinions about it. Each one of the articles expresses many different points of views on different situations
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ETH 501: Business Ethics and Deontology The key ethical utilitarian ethical problem for the supplier/transistor company in this case is the position of hindering medical advancement and possibly ending more lives due to fear caused from the lives lost to that point with the pacemakers. The supplier had to decide whether it would be for the greater good to continue to supply the transistors. “Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every
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Corporation’s Cardiac Pacemaker Business The legacy of Medtronic Corporation‚ the company that created the cardiac pacemaker industry‚ is a proud one. Starting from its earliest pacemakers‚ which had to be carried outside the body‚ Medtronic had achieved dramatic improvements in the functionality‚ size and reliability of these devices. In so doing it had extended the lives‚ and improved the quality of life‚ for hundreds of thousands of people in whom pacemakers had been implanted. The pacemaker has been designated
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Drawbacks of the current manufacturing facility 3.0. Lean Techniques 3.0.1. Develop one –piece Continuous Flow 3.0.2. Cell Creation 4.0. Future State Map 4.0.1. Supermarket Pull System 4.0.2. FIFO (First in First Out) 4.0.3. Pacemaker Process 4.0.4. Load Leveling 5.0. Implementation Plan 5.0.1. Breaking Implementation into steps 5.0.2. Objectives and Goals 6.0. Benefits 6.0.1. Lead Time 6.0.2. Labor Saving 6.0.3. Quality 7.0. Issues 7.0.1 Reduce changeover
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energy to bolster the accomplishment of your Eye Surgery. Here are a few variables you can control. Before Eye Surgery Before Eye Surgery‚ you will probably have a few suppliers from whom to pick. These will differ in expense‚ experience‚ convention and the general proficient air you experience amid your discussion. The supplier
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Strategic Research Project This paper is about a strategic overview of Medtronic Inc. Medtronic is a global leader in medical technology- alleviating pain‚ restoring health‚ and extending life for people with chronic conditions around the world. Medtronic conducts business in more than 120 countries developing and manufacturing a variety of products and therapies with emphasis on providing a complete continuum of care to diagnose‚ prevent and monitor chronic conditions. Mission Statement
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Techniques Advancements in Surgical Technology: Pacemakers Prepared for Rebecca Hall Since 1932‚ cardiac arrhythmias have been treated by the use of pacemakers. According to the article‚ “The Evolution of Pacemakers”‚ “An artificial pacemaker is a device that delivers a controlled‚ rhythmic electric stimulus to the heart muscle in order to maintain an effective cardiac rhythm for long periods of time” (Sandro A.P. Haddad‚ 2006). In the earliest stages‚ pacemakers were quite primitive but evolved to become
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