About

Cormac O’Prey has been working in product development consultancy, including medical device development, in the Cambridge area since 2000. He currently runs Kestrel Technology Consulting, a company specialising
in medical, healthcare, smart energy and sustainable product development. He is a long-standing member of the BSI committee for BS8887: Design for Manufacture Assembly, Disassembly and End of Life Processing.

Contributions

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SUSTAINABLE DESIGN & MANUFACTURE IN MEDICAL DEVICES: WHERE TO START

Cormac O’Prey discusses the challenges and advantages of implementing circular economy principles in the medical device sector, with a particular consideration of the difficulty of making remanufacturing work for high-volume, low-value devices.

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SUSTAINABILITY, WASTE & REMANUFACTURING IN THE MEDICAL SECTOR

Cormac O’Prey discusses some of the sustainability challenges facing the medical sector, such as how to make re-use and remanufacturing viable for high-volume, low-value products, and how answers can be found by looking to successful solutions deployed by other industries.