(FDAnews: Falls Church, VA) -- Is failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) the cornerstone of your risk management program? Consider this quote from the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) quality systems regulation expert Kim Trautman: “Are FMEA or FMECA… good tools? Yes. They are very good tools that can be utilized. Are they in and of themselves a risk management system? Absolutely not. I can’t tell you how many manufacturers I have seen that have tried to present their risk management system by simply presenting a FMEA—that is not a risk management system. Do not make the mistake of presenting FMEAs as your whole risk management system.”

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FDAnews and Dan O’Leary, president of Ombu Enterprises, have developed a comprehensive workshop that is packed with immediate-use tools and techniques to improve your current program. This course goes well beyond FMEA to show you how its limitations could be your downfall.

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• IEC 60601-1—“Medical electrical equipment—Part 1: general requirements”
for basic safety and essential performance
• IEC 62304—“Medical device software—Software life-cycle processes”
• FDA Draft Guidance—“Applying human factors and usability engineering
to optimize medical device design,” which covers the basic concepts of the assurance case

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