HEALTH CARE
With patient welfare hanging in the balance, disruptive innovation is a permanent concern and product failure is not an option in healthcare. Applying engineering simulation throughout development can make all the difference in bringing new treatments to patients while meeting safety standards and product deadlines.
When you build reliability into the design process, it improves compliance with tightening regulations — and saves lives. Since clinical testing can’t address every possible situation, medical device companies adopt engineering simulation (in silico testing) to systematically identify and resolve worst-case scenarios.
Benefits of utilizing FEA for medical design include:
- Shorter development cycles
- Reduced risk
- Faster FDA and CE approval
- Enhanced patent protection
- Improved quality management
- Increased performance and mechanical reliability
- Increased product life and durability
- Improved patient effectiveness
Following simulations can be benefitted for addressing various biomedical challenges:
- Structural analysis
- Durability and fatigue
- Fluid structures interaction
- Advanced nonlinear materials
- Motion-structures interaction
- Mechanism simulations
- System level performance and optimization
- Drop testing and packaging analysis
- Simulation Data & Process Management
- Manufacturing simulation
- Biocompatible materials analysis
- Methods & best practices
- Nonlinear and contact modeling
- Stress & strain analysis
- Design optimization
- Noise and vibration
- Motion and systems analysis
- Thermal & heat transfer analysis
- Acoustic analysis
- Multi-Disciplinary analysis
- Materials modeling (viscoelastic, shape memory, more)
Following are some of examples of simulation in biomedical sector:
- Orthopedic products
- Medical fasteners
- Ocular modeling
- Soft tissue simulation
- Packaging
- Electronic systems
- Virtual biomechanics
- Knee replacement
- Human modeling
- Soft tissue and joint modeling
- Hospital equipment
- Laser bonding
- Ablation catheters
- Dental implants
- Mechanical connectors
- Prosthetics
- Pacemakers
- Vascular implants
- Defibrillators
- Heart valve replacements