2-Day Training Workshop | Production and Process Controls: Building a Robust Approach

BEDMINSTER, NJ — (Marketwired) — 06/12/13 — Elsevier Business Intelligence invites you to join your peers for a two-day, hands-on training workshop, , where you will learn how to implement a system that can withstand a rigorous FDA Inspection or ISO 13485 audit.

Two available dates and locations: June 25 & 26, Boston, MA | October 17 & 18, San Francisco, CA

During this interactive 2-day workshop, expert instructor, Dan O-Leary, Principal of Ombu Enterprises, will teach you the fundamentals of production and process controls. He will guide you through the fine points using the FDA-s own inspection documents coupled with extensive use of Warning Letters to illustrate the issues device manufacturer-s face.

Mr. O-Leary will begin by detailing the development of the Quality Management System (QMS), laying the regulatory foundation. He will then teach you how to set up your production system for the life cycle from design transfer to product release to Risk Management production information collection.

Over the course of two days, your instructor will address the following topics:

The role of design output and design transfer

Developing quality plans

Establishing, monitoring, and controlling process parameters

Production equipment including installation, maintenance, and effectiveness metrics

Validating production software

Controlling and calibrating measuring equipment including traceability

Evaluating and selecting external calibration laboratories

Production changes and when they are also design changes

Determining the process that require validation

Process validation as a statistical issue

Acceptance activities including sampling plans

Nonconforming product and associated corrective action

Risk management (ISO 14971) and production

the regular attendee rate. We have also introduced a special promotion and would like to extend the offer to you and your colleagues: If your company would like to take advantage of this opportunity, please at your convenience to register the third attendee once two registrations have been completed.

We hope to see you there!

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Kristen Macholtz
Elsevier Business Intelligence
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