Automation of Simulation-Driven Design for Medical Devices

Excessive reliance on physical (bench test), animal, and human testing continues to drive development time and cost within the life sciences industry, slowing innovation. If you look at how things are done today, it can take a year or even years to create an accurate simulation of a device. This is mainly due to the disconnection between designers and analysts with model files passed through email, issues noted in emails, etc. Then, when the analyst identifies a design issue, new model files are passed again across the metaphorical brick wall. The issues with this process are numerous, such as there being no digital thread, it being slow, disconnected, and error prone.
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That being said, this is why the 3DEXPERIENCE platform is connected. There's a full digital thread for one project and the model and simulation are fully connected even with design iterations.

In this webinar, we will review three aspects to reduce the development time of a wearable drug injection device including:

• Design exploration, where parameters can be automatically optimized based on target outputs and simulations run for each design option
• Seamless connection between model geometry, mesh, and simulation attributes
• Democratization, which is essentially leveraging something an expert analyst has designed and capturing it in a template then deploying it onto a web-based widget so that everyone can make use of the simulation