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Product Design and Usability

We offer human factors engineering consulting and software to help health and life sciences customers enable innovation and improve usability of medical products.

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Closing the human factors gap for product development

Product development and R&D professionals require clear, cost-effective paths forward when developing medical products. They need a discovery process that supports designing innovative, user-centered and software-intensive devices. Companies need to apply human factors engineering (HFE) in their product development processes to enhance usability and reduce the risk of use errors. However, they lack the HFE expertise required for innovative and compliant product development.

 

 

 

Leverage our HFE expertise for product innovation and safety

 

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Mitigate use error risks

Identify potential use-related issues early in the product design phase.
 

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Reduce costly redesigns

Confidently deliver a usable product, reduce recalls and build user trust.
 

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Meet regulator expectations

Fulfill HFE regulatory requirements for seamless market access.
 

 

Our offerings help customers with user-centered and compliant innovation

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Human Factors Engineering and Usability Consulting

Our Human Factors Research & Design team provides HFE and usability support, including user research and analysis, design, usability testing and training.

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Optimal Product Usability Suite (OPUS™)

OPUS is our HFE software as a service (SaaS) platform that delivers regulatory guidance, project planning, training, tools and templates for medical product designers and developers.

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Stages

Our Stages software enables customers to streamline their software-driven medical product development processes, reduce development timeframes and minimize the risk of noncompliance.

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Meet our experts

 

 

“We help our customers develop user-centered and safe medical devices that deliver positive user experience and comply with global regulations.”

Allison Strochlic
Senior Research Director, Human Factors Research & Design

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Allison Strochlic

 

Featured resource

Key Benefits of Usability Testing in Medical Devices

Our white paper explains how usability testing can bolster medical device product development and help meet regulatory requirements.

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Related product design and usability resources

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GUIDE

Understanding Human Factor Engineering in Medical Products

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ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

Risk Analysis for Design and Innovation

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The Nuubo System

CASE STUDY

Nuubo® System: Innovating Wearable Cardiac Monitoring

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Accelerate medical product development

Leverage our HFE expertise and software.

 

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Testing and Certification for Health and Life Sciences

As a global safety science leader, UL Solutions offers robust and impartial third-party testing and certification to industry standards necessary to demonstrate safety and performance claims for their products, crucial for achieving market access.

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Regulatory Readiness and Compliance

Our network of regulatory experts helps customers achieve market access in more than 20 countries. We provide knowledge and tools to automate regulatory affairs processes to streamline market submissions and keep up with regulatory changes.

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Comprehensive offerings for the Health and Life Sciences industry

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Market Access

UL Solutions provides software and advisory services to support product development and design, testing and certification and expert consulting to support customers regulatory compliance.

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Cybersecurity

We offer software, testing and expertise to manage cybersecurity risks and develop safer manufacturing processes under the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).

 

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Workforce Training and Competence

We offer learning management software to help companies implement training programs, standardize manufacturing processes and keep pace with regulatory changes.

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Supply Chain Resilience

Our software and services provide visibility into firms’ supply chain networks, helping to minimize disruptions and mitigate supplier- and product-related risks. 

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ESG Stewardship

We offer software and advisory expertise to manage ESG reporting, reduce carbon emissions and more sustainably bring medical products to market.

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Within UL Solutions, we provide a broad portfolio of offerings to many industries. This includes certification, testing, inspection, assessment, verification and consulting services. In order to protect and prevent any conflict of interest, perception of conflict of interest and protection of both our brand and our customers’ brands, UL Solutions has processes in place to identify and manage any potential conflicts of interest and maintain the impartiality of our conformity assessment services.

 

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Accelerate medical product development

Leverage our HFE expertise and software.

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