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Devices used in the healthcare world are very diverse and are to some extent similar to what is used in other industries (pumps, injection devices, tubes, screws and complex metal assemblies are routinely used in the biomedical world). Because these devices directly impact our well-being, our health and sometimes our lives, extremely careful attention is paid to their design, prototyping, manufacturing including the selection of materials, and testing. This explains the huge amount of money invested every year in research and development by biomedical companies. The never-ending increasing demand for better care, together with the fierce competitive landscape, is forcing biomedical device companies to push further the frontier of biomedical engineering while continuously reducing the time to market and the design and manufacturing costs. ANSYS Solutions have been successfully applied for various Medical Devices applications:
To succeed in this business, there is no alternative but to optimize every stage of the long process of bringing a new biomedical device to the market. Engineering simulation solutions using ANSYS software have proven to be extremely useful at all steps of the medical device design and manufacturing process thanks to its unique engineered scalability. By building a virtual model of the device, it is possible to quickly improve the comprehensive understanding of the device performance and find ways to improve it. Once designed, the manufacturing process - for example, forging of prostheses, extrusion of multilumen tubing, injection molding of plastic parts, blowing of catheters and thermoforming of packaging, to mention a few - can be modeled, parameterized and eventually optimized to reduce the manufacturing cost and time. These virtually manufactured devices can then be seamlessly tested under normal and extreme conditions via structural analysis and explicit modeling. These comprehensive multiphysics (fluid flow, structural analysis, electromagnetic and possibly acoustics) in the different production phases (fundamental research, device design, manufacturing, testing and approval) can be integrated into the unified CAE adaptive architecture of ANSYS. This maximizes the opportunities for innovation while minimizing the risk of failure late in the design process. This approach has a proven record of drastically reducing the time to market as well as the global cost of bringing a new product onto the market. |
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Pathlines colored by velocity in a dry powder inhaler
Complex weave geometry of an intravascular stent |
