SIMULIA Life Sciences & Healthcare Solutions

Portable or wearable drug delivery systems and diagnostic devices have revolutionized the quality of life for their users. These devices need to be reliable, comfortable, and easy to use.

Simulation enables medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers to test their products in silico and identify and resolve potential safety and performance issues before clinical testing.

Applications include:

• Structural integrity and impact testing
• Plastic injection molding
• Electromagnetic performance and safety
• Fluid flow and fluid-structure interaction
• Needle penetration and device-skin interaction

The orthopedic and dental implant market is growing rapidly, driven by an aging population motivated to maintain an active lifestyle. These factors are also driving the demand for personalized implants.

Simulation is used to evaluate implant performance throughout its entire lifespan. Personalized implants can be designed and analyzed for fit and function by integrating scan data into the simulation.

Applications include :

• Strength and stiffness
• Kinematics and dynamics
• Durability, wear, and lifespan
• Flow analysis in porous implants
• Manufacturing and 3D printing process optimization
• MRI safety

Airborne transmitted infections are invisible but everywhere and significantly impact the quality of care provided by hospitals. They affect patient outcomes, increase healthcare costs, prolong hospital stays and even lead to mortality.

Hospital HVAC systems can be modeled and simulated to optimize ventilation and air quality, improve the safety of patients and staff, maintain patient comfort, and lower energy costs in all climate conditions.

Applications include:

• Airborne disease propagation
• Surface contamination
• Air quality and indoor pollution
• HVAC optimization
• Lab biosecurity and clean room design

To understand the safety and efficacy of a new medical device, it is imperative to analyze its interaction with the human body.

Virtual Human Modeling & Simulation, from Dassault Systemes, enables medical device companies to assess the safety and efficacy of their products within a realistic virtual human environment. It offers the ability to create detailed models of human organs and systems, such as the heart and musculoskeletal system. It also provides the capability to modify these models to create or patient-specific twins or a large set of virtual patients which can be used to improve medical device safety and effectiveness.

Applications include:

• Tissue modeling (skin, bone, etc.)
• Human organ models (brain, lungs, eye, etc.)
• Living Heart Model
• Musculoskeletal systems modeling