The Monarch 1st annual Build-A-Thon presented an opportunity for the research teams to suggest updates for J&J to incorporate in future products. In this two week period, Nicole contributed to multiple teams across Monarch and Shockwave.

Nicole worked on tool grooming for a working channel instruments in the Monarch Uro Indication. Tool Grooming is the process of reverse engineering a set of part prototypes. The goal of this task is to validate that the anticipated assembly functionality from the part drawings is consistent with actual assembly performance.

There is no set method for Tool Grooming, making the task more difficult than others. It is an iterative process of building, analysis, manually altering, and testing until all desire changes have been identified and part drawings have been updated.