Sustainable Design and Manufacture for Medical Devices

Don’t see your profits go to landfill!

Sustainability in medical technology, as in all industries, is increasingly no longer an option. It’s not a question of “if” – it’s a question of “how”. This free webinar will give you a high level of understanding of what sustainability options exist, what the benefits are and what drives them.

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Recorded on 19 January 2022

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Overview

Sustainability in medical technology, as in all industries, is increasingly no longer an option. It’s not a question of “if” – it’s a question of “how”. This webinar will give you a high level understanding of what sustainability options exist, what the benefits are and what drives them.

Who should attend

Medical industry leaders, sustainability leaders, product owners, manufacturing managers and design heads, business development managers and anyone interested in sustainable design and manufacture.

Why you should attend

Downloading this free webinar will introduce you to the concepts and provide a good foundation for the following more detailed and focused one day workshop, which will help you identify opportunities for sustainable manufacture that turn the requirement for more sustainability into an opportunity for growth.

What to find out more?

To get a more in depth understanding, find out how to choose which approach will work for your company and how to implement these fundamental changes, attend our one day seminar on this topic. Click here for more detail and to register.

The Sustainable Design and Manufacture for Medical Devices course will cover:

Sustainable Design and Manufacture for Medical Devices

Introduction to sustainable design and manufacture – where it fits in
Why it matters – drivers for change and market expectations. What are the priorities (CO2 / waste / energy / water)?
Current state of the art and who is doing what
Options for improvements – what can be learned from other medical products and other industries
Standards, frameworks and regulatory support
Conclusions – what needs to happen, how to start and what needs to be done to support it
Q & A session

Cormac O'Prey
Kestrel Consultancy Group

Cormac O'Prey is Principal and Director in the Kestrel Consultancy Group.

He has experience in effective Business Development, Project Management and Product Development, with proven innovation capability. As part of the Kestrel Consultancy Group Ltd., he works on technology and product development projects with a range of UK-based and multi-national client companies.

In his role as a BSi BS8887 committee member and project lead on the sustainable medical devices subcommittee, he contributes to steering international standards and best practice on design for manufacture, assembly, disassembly and end of life - vital for developing our capacity to respond to the demands of circular / spiral economy and optimise our resources in an increasingly unstable world!

His specialist capabilities include: Development of strategic partnerships with multiple international organisations including customers, manufacturers, users, financiers, and regulatory bodies; Product development in diverse industrial sectors including Smart Grid and Smart Metering, Medical Devices, Industrial, Consumer and other industries including project management, risk analysis, technical review, etc.

He has a special interest in technology transfer and innovation with a focus on sustainable design and manufacture, and lectures at ARU Cambridge in Global Busines Environment and International Strategy, and Engineering Design.

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