Ensuring Medical Device Compliance and Performance with SIMULIA Electromagnetic Simulation

Medical device companies are under increasing pressure to develop safe and effective products, while also reducing development time and cost and meeting stringent regulatory constraints. In particular, electronic medical devices are required to comply with international Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) standards before they can enter the market. This is necessary in order to avoid electromagnetic interference between different devices and systems. Physical testing is used to demonstrate compliance, but is both time consuming and expensive. Furthermore, compliance testing requires the hardware and operating software to be fully developed. As such, the testing is performed at the end of the design process and identification of any issues at this late stage is extremely risky. It is not uncommon for EMC noncompliance to cause design modifications that can delay time to market by many months.

The electromagnetics (EM) simulation suite from Dassault Systèmes SIMULIA enables the virtual validation of medical device electromagnetic performance, safety, and compliance, significantly reducing the need for costly chamber testing. Furthermore, it includes solutions for antenna design and placement, signal and power integrity assessment, and human exposure compliance by providing state-of-the-art computational modeling tools as well as a population of virtual human models.