Design Controls and Human Factors

When:  Mar 17, 2021 from 15:00 to 19:00 (ET)

Most medical device and pharmaceutical companies know they need to make their products as usable as possible, but many have difficulty understanding how to design their product with usability in mind from the ground up.

This interactive workshop is designed to take participants through the design control elements, emphasizing how human factors fit into each step in the design process.

The workshop addresses the steps necessary to develop a truly usable product that fulfils regulatory expectations around safety and efficacy and simplifies use for end users.

Pricing Amounts & Deadlines

5 Oct – 30 Oct 2020:  Regular $750 Member | $850 Nonmember

OBJECTIVE

  • Identify the major design control elements and understand their contribution to the development of safe and effective medical devices.
  • Understand how human factors fit into product development and design controls.
  • Outline and describe the costs associated with human factors studies.
  • Develop strategies for identifying device users, user environments and critical tasks.
  • Identify methodological differences between generative, formative, and validation/summative studies.
  • Be able to make decisions based on results from human factors studies and document them in the usability engineering file.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

  • Recently, there have been significant changes in the requirements around human factors for medical devices. This workshop will provide practical guidance and information for:
  • Regulatory affairs professionals
  • Quality assurance managers and engineers
  • Product development and design engineers
  • Human factors and usability engineers
  • Program and project managers

AGENDA

DAY 1

                 Introduction to Design Controls

                 Introduction to human factors as it relates to safety in medical device design

                 Risk Management requirements for medical device development

                 Preliminary analysis of users, environments, and use-related risk

                 Design and Development Planning

                 Creation of a human factors strategy

                 Design Inputs

DAY 2

                 Design Inputs for human factors

                 Design outputs and the role of human factors

                 Formative human factors studies

                 Design Reviews

                 Design verification

DAY 3

                 Design validation

                 Validation / Summative usability studies

                 Design transfer

                 Design Changes

                 Strategies for writing successful human factors and usability engineering reports

                 Design history file / design and development file

                 Post market surveillance and the EU MDR

SPEAKERS

Bryant Foster, vice president, human factors and user experience, Research Collective

Margaret Koga Ward, principal engineer and owner, Teragram, LLC

CANCELLATION POLICY

RAPS reserves the right to cancel this program at its sole discretion. RAPS will not be responsible for travel or other costs incurred due to cancellation.

All cancellation requests must be submitted in writing via our online cancellation form. RAPS is unable to accept cancellations by phone. Please specify the name of the person registered and event title.

Substitutions may be accepted with written approval from RAPS and must be submitted to raps@raps.org. 

PROOF OF ATTENDANCE

RAPS will send an electronic letter or a certificate of attendance upon request.

QUESTIONS

Call RAPS Solutions Center at +1 301.770.2920, Ext 200