For Immediate Release

ASQ Offers Virtual Course on Risk Management for Medical Device Manufacturers

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 17, 2007 — As FDA regulations and quality system requirements tighten, manufacturers can’t afford the ramifications of unidentified risks in production. To help educate producers, the American Society for Quality (ASQ) is offering a one-day virtual course on risk management.  Participants of the Risk Management for Medical Device program will learn how to evaluate the hazards for possible levels of risk and ways to creatively brainstorm on how to reduce the risk.

The program is a live, instructor-led and interactive Web-based course.  It will be held Wednesday, October 3, 2007, from 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. CDT.  Instructor Barry Craner will outline the common risk-identification and risk-reducing methods applicable not only to medical device production but to many other industries.  Craner is chair of ASQ’s Biomedical Division and is director of quality assurance for Lipid Sciences, Inc.  He has delivered many papers and presentations on topics such as calibration systems, management auditing, software quality assurance and managing contract design as well as risk management.

The course is geared toward quality managers, quality engineers and quality technicians involved in the development and manufacture of medical devices.  Professionals directly involved in meeting the FDA’s Quality System requirements such as those in regulatory affairs, quality assurance, process development or manufacturing should also attend.  To register for the course, visit www.asq.org/training.

 

The American Society for Quality, www.asq.org, has been the world’s leading authority on quality for 60 years.  With more than 93,000 individual and organizational members, the professional association advances learning, quality improvement and knowledge exchange to improve business results, and to create better workplaces and communities worldwide.  As champion of the quality movement, ASQ offers technologies, concepts, tools and training to quality professionals, quality practitioners and everyday consumers, encouraging all to Make Good Great®.  ASQ has been the sole administrator of the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award since 1991. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., ASQ is a founding partner of the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), a prominent quarterly economic indicator, and also produces the Quarterly Quality Report.

For more information, please contact Lynda Nicely at 414-298-8789 ext. 7587 or visit ASQ at Booth #6550 at the Quality Expo, Rosemont, Ill., September 25-27, 2007.