Modeling and simulation are proven ways to address the high and unsustainable costs and time required for design and regulatory approval of increasingly complex healthcare solutions. This in silico approach maximizes patient safety while making healthcare more affordable.
APPLICATIONS
Cardiovascular
With more than 30 percent of all deaths attributed to cardiovascular diseases, the healthcare industry invests massively in disease prevention, treatment and efforts to shorten the recovery period. The extensive in vitro and in vivo testing required to ensure patient safety inevitably slows the delivery of innovative implantable cardiovascular devices — stents, valves or pacemakers/defibrillators — to those who need them the most. Leveraging the power of in silico medicine and developing a detailed and reliable multiphysics model of the device and its working environment (the human body) provides the necessary insights to test and optimize new products, help accelerate regulatory approval and save lives.
Orthopedic
Develop innovative and durable implants that conform with a patient’s physiology and that comply with MRI compatibility requirements. Ansys is a leader in the field of in silico medicine, which combines multiphysics simulation, material properties, patient-specific human physiology, surgical procedures and manufacturing processes.
Medical Devices
When it comes to wellbeing and life-saving operations, device failure is not an option. The medical device industry leverages simulation to develop disruptive innovation and deliver increasingly advanced treatments. Applying engineering simulation throughout the device development cycle and the regulatory approval process is the only cost-effective way to bring new treatments to patients faster, while meeting safety standards and satisfying time-to-market deadlines.
Pharma & Biopharma
Traditional drug manufacturing and drug delivery process development requires a huge time and financial investment. To accelerate innovation and dramatically reduce costs and time to market, in silico approaches are the only viable solution. Applying engineering simulation and mechanistic modeling to identify the best delivery route or to scale up production equipment from lab scale to mass production is crucial to achieve regulatory approval on a sustainable timescale and budget.
Smart medical devices
Smart medical devices provide smarter and capable of better diagnostic insights. Manufacturers are adding more types of sensors, increasing remote portability and connectivity and leveraging machine learning and AI. Collectively, these investments result in products that can capture more types of data, follow patients to get a much fuller picture of health and generate better insights. These devices can even react in real-time to patient conditions—either through an automated direct function, relaying data to caregivers or even notifying an emergency response. That’s the type of game-changing technology that saves lives and improves outcomes.
Particle flow in Pharmaceutical & Biotech
DEM simulation can be used in a variety of ways to enhance the drug development process. Virtual analysis greatly adds to insight, capturing dynamic interactions between process, geometry, and material variables. The result is significant process improvement with reduced reliance on experimental testing. Any information gleaned can help engineers make informed decisions on formulation, coating, drying and heat exchange, mixing and blending, process, scale-up, equipment design changes, and troubleshooting.
PRODUCTS
ANSYS CFD (Fluid)
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a tool with amazing flexibility, accuracy and breadth of application. Ansys CFD goes beyond qualitative results to deliver accurate quantitative predictions of fluid interactions and trade-offs. These insights reveal unexpected opportunities for your product — opportunities that even experienced engineering analysts can miss. While Ansys CFD empowers experienced analysts to deliver deep insights, serious CFD is not just for experts modeling rocket ships and racing cars. Engineers at every level across diverse industries are getting great value from CFD analysis.
Ansys Electromagnetic
Ansys electromagnetic field simulation helps you design innovative electrical and electronic products faster and more cost-effectively. Ansys software can uniquely simulate electromagnetic performance across component, circuit and system design, and can evaluate temperature, vibration and other critical mechanical effects.
This unmatched electromagnetic-centric design flow helps you achieve first-pass system design success for advanced communication systems, high-speed electronic devices, electromechanical components and power electronics systems.
ANSYS Structures
Ansys structural analysis software enables you to solve complex structural engineering problems and make better, faster design decisions. With the finite element analysis (FEA) solvers available in the suite, you can customize and automate solutions for your structural mechanics problems and parameterize them to analyze multiple design scenarios. You can also connect easily to other physics analysis tools for even greater fidelity. Ansys structural analysis software is used across industries to help engineers optimize their product designs and reduce the costs of physical testing.
Optical
Let Ansys Optics & Virtual Reality optical simulation software lead you to the best solution, no matter the style of your project. The software easily solves complex optical problems and refines visual appearance for perceived quality. Significantly elevate final product quality with true-to-life visual experiences and combine design and engineering processes into a single, connected workflow. Prepare and appraise virtual prototypes of a cockpit HMI in a real-time, immersive VR environment. Or, simulate for optical sensors on autonomous vehicles with the diversity offered by Ansys Optics & Virtual Reality
Rocky
Rocky DEM – a powerful Discrete Element Modeling (DEM) program that quickly and accurately simulates the granular flow behavior of complex particle shapes which includes custom 3D bodies, 2D shells and fibers which can be made rigid or flexible and size distributions. It is served in many industrial processes including Mining, Oil and Gas, Asphalt and Construction, Pharmaceutical and Nanotechnology. With Rocky DEM, you can combine the processing power of several GPU cards to accelerate your simulations, enabling you to work with higher volumes of data in less time. Rocky DEM is also tightly coupled with Ansys (Fluent and Mechanical).
Thingworx
A Smart, Connected World
The ThingWorx platform is a complete, end-to-end technology platform designed for the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). It delivers tools and technologies that empower businesses to rapidly develop and deploy powerful applications and augmented reality (AR) experiences.