MEDICAL DESIGN Webcast

Compete Smarter with Lean Strategies that Advance Your Compliance Objectives
A critical component of the lean solution provides a regulatory-compliant environment that optimizes production capacity from raw materials through final product.

Medical device companies that do not leverage lean manufacturing strategies are neglecting significant ways to improve productivity and uniquely address regulatory compliance requirements. Many manufacturers, in the heavily regulated medical device arena, view lean processes as being at odds with the way the industry operates to achieve regulatory compliance. This opposing view will limit medical device manufacturers from taking advantage of similar benefits experienced by other industries and will impede their own compliance goals by not embracing lean strategies.

Key Learning Objective
By viewing this educational Web-based seminar managers and professionals will gain valuable skills, which can be used immediately to analyze division or company performance. Key topics addressed how to apply lean strategies and tools to attack inefficiencies—wastes caused by defects, overproduction, and extra processing to enhance medical device manufacturing companies performance. Presentations from the expert panel included:

• The Lean Strategy: An Executive Overview
• Lean Manufacturing in a Regulated Environment
• The Use of Systems to Enable Lean Compliant Manufacturing
   in a Medical Device Company

A Superior Online Education FOR THE MEDICAL DEVICE MANUFACTURER
Don't miss a unique educational experience that featured lean strategists examining how "lean today" is enabling medical device manufacturers to increase competitiveness, reach economies of scale, reduce waste in the supply chain, automate their processes, achieve compliance confidence, and strive for perfection – a lean principle and an absolute for medical device makers. Furthermore, the panel discussion addressed how “lean today” alleviates outsourcing issues by helping to streamline processes that are slowed by heavy compliance requirements. Benefits of lean strategies include:

• Meet FDA requirements for traceability and tracking, quality systems,
  and electronic records and signatures
• Control product cost and quality by streamlining your process and
  eliminating waste
• Save time and money by automating routine transactions