Summa Health, a leading hospital group in Northeast Ohio, has responded to a changing environment during a time of turbulence and enhanced demand for medical services. Learn how medical facilities are adapting to new realities and what suppliers must do to assist operations and support these shifting needs.

SPEAKER: Ben Sutton, Chief Strategy Officer, Summa Health

Processors have needed to adapt quickly due to the pandemic by offering new products, a more rapid pace of production and higher volumes in order to meet the demands of healthcare customers. Learn how a leading manufacturer has adjusted and what suppliers to healthcare producers must do to enhance work with customers.

SPEAKER: Bob Bordignon, Senior Vice President, Strategic Accounts, MGS Mfg. Group

This session from a leading healthcare manufacturer will highlight the need for all in medical plastics to truly know who the customer is, what the real mission is and how  profoundly our actions can effect lives.

SPEAKER: John Hoskins, Chief Commercial Officer, Ernie Green Industries

Track and Trace is a critical capability for today’s medical manufacturers to manage risks and offer comprehensive manufacturing services. It is a vital tool for manufacturers to gain control and visibility over product and process quality and respond to customer demands. In this Ask the Expert session, learn about using track and trace in medical manufacturing operations.

SPEAKERS:

Courtney Roldan, Product Owner, DelmiaWorks

Melissa Bodilly, Product Manager, DelmiaWorks

This special panel of key processors to the healthcare market will explore some of the new growth opportunities, challenges and adjustments to business realities in a rapidly shifting industry.

SPEAKERS:

Tammy Barras, President, Westec Plastics

John Budreau, Director of New Business, PTI Engineered Plastics Inc.

Brenan Riehl, President & CEO, GW Plastics

John Rugari, Vice President of Sales, Healthcare Segment, Technimark LLC

A leading drug delivery manufacturer will explore how suppliers must connect their development work with other developments and offer insights into how this work can be done effectively.

SPEAKER: Tom McLean, Vice President, R&D, Integrated Delivery Systems, West Pharmaceutical Services Inc.

In plastics processing for the medical and pharmaceutical industry, it’s all about managing risk.  Producers of medical device and pharmaceutical packaging components, along with their end-customers, fulfill important roles in avoiding risk to patients caused by some defect or oversight. A myriad of  existing and future regulations must be met and detailed information assembled on the material ingredients and formulation, manufacturing   processes, and extensive supporting data with respect to physical and mechanical properties, biocompatibility and toxicity. This presentation will review what constitutes a “medical grade” plastic and how to ensure that all the materials in medical plastics processing   (including minor ingredients like colorants and additives) support device and pharmaceutical packaging compliance.

SPEAKER: Stephen Duckworth, Head of Global Segment - Healthcare, Avient Corp.

The tsunami of change that followed the coronavirus pandemic left the healthcare industry with one choice: react to the wave of disruptive change that is permanently impacting supply chains, technologies and the overall stature of healthcare and medical device manufacturing as essential to our economic and social stability. Now, with the lessons learned in the first wave of COVID-19, companies have an opportunity to proactively plan and adjust to the new landscape and ride the coming second wave of change. In this presentation, M. Holland's Josh Blackmore will explore the acceleration of technological trends in medical devices and how to ensure supply chain security in a time of disruption.

SPEAKER: Josh Blackmore, Global Healthcare Manager, M. Holland Co.

Mark Bonifacio of Bonifacio Consulting has served on a panel from the National Institutes of Health to produce next-generation coronavirus tests to help combat the virus' spread. He will discuss the work being done by the NIH's Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics program, known as RADx, to be followed by a panel of processors discussing new approaches and work being done in diagnostics and testing.

SPEAKERS:

Mark Bonifacio, President, Bonifacio Consulting

Bob Bordignon, Senior Vice President, Strategic Accounts, MGS Mfg. Group

Mike Angelo, Vice President of Sales, Team Technologies

Learn about the growth of medical micro molding and the technology required to make high-precision products for the health care market. The speakers will share examples of micromolded products and customers' unique needs today and for the future.

SPEAKERS: 

Gary Hulecki, Executive Vice President, MTD Micro Molding

Lindsay Mann, Director of Sales & Marketing, MTD Micro Molding

A new resource guide from the Plastics Industry Associations assesses a comprehensive range of changes, including those to chemical components, production processes, product certifications, quality agreements and product specifications. The intention of this guide is to unite industry under commonalities and best practices for product and change certification, thereby reducing the time required for proposed material or process changes. Learn how this guide will benefit healthcare suppliers, how it can make change management processes and decision making more efficient and, ultimately, can plays a role in making the medical supply chain an easier to navigate domain when it comes to changes.

Wittmann Battenfeld's Brent Strawbridge will then take the audience through the requirements, regulations and challenges of injection molding in a cleanroom.This presentation will discuss what can be done at the machine level to meet those requirements and mitigate risks.

SPEAKERS: 

Brent Strawbridge, Key Account Manager, Wittmann Battenfeld

George Southworth, Senior Director, Processor & Brand Councils, Plastics Industry Association