Presented by
Management Forum
Sustainable Design and Manufacture for Medical Devices Training Course
This seminar will give you an in-depth understanding of what sustainability options exist, what the benefits are, what drives them, and how to choose which will work for your company.
- Format: Live online, Classroom
- CPD: 6 hours for your records
- Certificate of completion
- An Introduction to the Design and Development of Medical Devices
- Human Factors and Usability Engineering in the Development of Drug Delivery Products
- Cyber Security for Medical Devices
- Sustainable Design and Manufacture for Medical Devices
- Metered Dose Inhaler (MDI) Technology
- Pre-Filled Syringes: End-to-End Processing
Course 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 seminar will give you an in depth understanding of what sustainability options exist, what the benefits are, what drives them and how to choose which will work for your company. It will also provide practical advice on how to implement change.
This course is of our range of Medical Devices training courses - now also including Medical Devices Cyber Security training to help improve your data security.
Benefits of attending
- Gain an understanding of how sustainability objectives can be made to fit with YOUR organisation and what you should be aiming to achieve
- Learn how to assess risk and develop a strategy that delivers worthwhile results in a realistic timeframe
- Appreciate where to start, how to manage change and how to justify the investment by measuring improvements
Who should attend?
- Medical industry leaders
- Sustainability leaders
- Product owners
- Manufacturing managers
- Design heads
- Business development managers
- Anyone interested in sustainable design and manufacture
This course will cover:
Background
- Focus: where does sustainable design and manufacture fit into the overall sustainability picture?
- What are the drivers for sustainability in YOUR industry/organisation? What are the barriers?
- What has your organisation done so far and why? Did it work? If not, why not?
Understanding how to move forward
- Stakeholders in sustainable design and manufacture
- Risks – organisational, technical, regulatory and market
- Understanding the synergy between design, manufacture and remanufacture
Planning change
- Appetite for change – selling the idea, getting stakeholders on board and assessing future market acceptance/demands
- Understanding the benefits – how sustainability can add value to your organisation and your products
- Sharing the vision and getting commitment/support
- Understanding risk – acknowledging that this is new ground and identifying what you don’t know you don’t know
- Planning phased implementation – disruptive change and how to manage it
- Feasibility analysis – the answer to the question “should we adopt sustainable manufacture” - might be no!
Implementing change
- Where to start – design, manufacture, remanufacture or all three?
- How to "do" sustainable design. How have others done it? What can we learn? How suitable is it for medical?
- How to implement a recovery and remanufacturing loop. What can we learn from other industries?
- What external forces exist and how do we address them?
- Where to find support and how to keep the regulators happy
- Starting small and working up – balancing risk with manageable rates of progress and measuring success
- Scaling up, managing expectations and finding the optimum rate of change
- Making the financial case – how does sustainability pay for itself?
Q&A and key takeaways
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.
NEW higher discounts for multiple bookings - bring your colleagues to make your training budget go further:
- 30% off the 2nd delegate*
- 40% off the 3rd delegate*
- 50% off the 4th delegate*
Please contact us for pricing if you are interested in booking 5 or more delegates
24 March 2025
Live online
09:30-17:00 UK (London) (UTC+00)
10:30-18:00 Paris (UTC+01)
05:30-13:00 New York (UTC-04)
Course code 14647
- GBP 549 649
- EUR 789 929
- USD 893 1,049
Until 17 Feb
- 1 day live online training
- Browser-based, no download usually required
- See presenters and interact with fellow attendees
- Download documentation and certification of completion
- Fair transfer and cancellation policy
Not ready to book yet?
for 7 days, no obligation
3 July 2025
Live online
09:30-17:00 UK (London) (UTC+01)
10:30-18:00 Paris (UTC+02)
04:30-12:00 New York (UTC-04)
Course code 14802
- GBP 549 649
- EUR 789 929
- USD 893 1,049
Until 29 May
- 1 day live online training
- Browser-based, no download usually required
- See presenters and interact with fellow attendees
- Download documentation and certification of completion
- Fair transfer and cancellation policy
Not ready to book yet?
for 7 days, no obligation
27 November 2025
Classroom
Rembrandt Hotel
London
09:00-17:00 UK (London)
Course code 14969
Optional £255/€356/$407 per night
- GBP 649 749
- EUR 939 1,079
- USD 1,053 1,209
Until 23 Oct
- 1 day classroom-based training
- Optional accommodation - 1 night including breakfast, checking in the day before the course
- Meet presenters and fellow attendees in person
- Lunch and refreshments provided
- Download documentation and certification of completion
- Fair transfer and cancellation policy
Not ready to book yet?
for 7 days, no obligation
* Early booking discounts may not be combined with other discounts or offers. As such, the discounts for 2nd/3rd/4th delegates are based on the full price; and apply only when booking multiple delegates on the same date.
Reviews of IPI's Sustainable Design and Manufacture for Medical Devices training course
The speaker was passionate and knowledgeable about his work. The content was good, although tailored more to the beginner in sustainability. The presentation was good, slides were manageable (not too wordy etc). The regulatory and case studies were interesting, as well as remanufacturing.
Jan 24 2023
Emily Lane 
Graduate Mechanical Engineer, Renishaw plc
United Kingdom
- Medtrade Products
- Renishaw Neuro Solutions Ltd
- Renishaw plc
Switzerland
- Ypsomed AG
Run Sustainable Design and Manufacture for Medical Devices Live online/Classroom for your team
1 day
Typical duration
Pricing from:
- GBP 400
- Per attendee, based on 10 attendees
- Course tailored to your requirements
- At your choice of location, or online
We can customise this course to your requirements and deliver it on an in-house basis for any number of your staff or colleagues.
Contact our in-house training experts Aleksandra Beer and Yesim Nurko to discuss your requirements:
