The market for additive manufacturing — building products one layer at a time — is surging globally. With fast-moving growth comes the pressing need to create industry standards. In this episode, host Richard Freeman, Principal Engineer at PRI, catches up with Dave Abbott, Senior Staff Engineer, additive manufacturing, for GE Aviation in Cincinnati.

Cybersecurity is among the most pressing issues of our time. From our bank accounts to the electric grid, a cyberattack could affect one or millions of people. But there's a lack of standardization across the industry. Regulations — international, national, even local — result in a patchwork of approaches to creating unified standards designed to protect. In this episode, PRI's Randy Daugharthy talks with Robert Aanerud, principal consultant, trainer and Lead ISO Auditor, CISSP, CISA, CPP, for JBW Group International. Robert has worked with some of the world's leading companies.

MedAccred℠ and similar, managed programs help drive resiliency into the supply chains of the medical device industry, while improving quality and safety on a global scale. COVID-19 forced stakeholders to examine how to operate effectively amid the supply chain disruptions. In this episode, host Randy Daugharthy, Vice President of Business Development for PRI, talks with Justin McCabe, Operations Manager for MedAccred, about how flexibility, control, and collaboration are key in achieving efficiencies.

In this opening episode of The Review, we drill down into a program that's essential for the safety of you and your loved ones: MedAccred℠. MedAccred is an industry managed, consensus-driven approach to ensuring critical manufacturing process quality throughout the medical device supply chain.

Medical equipment from bandages to pacemakers, and thousands of other products, rely on exacting safety standards. Suppliers can improve their manufacturing practices and increase sales by becoming accredited to MedAccred standards, administered by the Performance Review Institute (PRI). Host Randy Daugharthy, Vice President, Business Development for PRI is joined by Justin McCabe, Operations Manager, MedAccred to explain how the program works and why it is so important not only to the industry, but to end-users.