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Industry: Life Sciences & Healthcare

  • Biogents – Leveraging Cloud-Native CFD

    Challenges Eliminating poorly performing designs early in the engineering phase. Lack of insight into device performance from physical testing. Balancing mechanical suction needs against strict indoor acoustic and noise limitations. Securing scalable computational resources for highly variable, project-based workloads. Results Used cloud-based simulation to visualize airflow and filter out flawed concepts. Adopted computational fluid dynamics…

  • Helicus – Optimizing Drones for Medical Delivery

    Challenge Identify drone landing sites on a hospital for medical deliveries. Optimize the aerodynamic performance of a drone. Balance drone load-carrying capacity with weight and power requirements. Results Successfully ran transient wind analysis for 16 wind directions on and around the hospital. Used CFD to simulate drone flight stability in urban areas. FEA is used…

  • 3P Innovation – Accelerating Cryovial Machine Design

    Challenge Design of the cryoFIL® automated cryovial machine. Carefully design the airflow inside the machine to avoid any contamination of the open vials. CFD simulations of multiple operating points to evaluate air turbulence, stagnation, and unwanted mixing. Results Employed parallel simulations in SimScale to rapidly evaluate many design variants. Early stage design confidence using simulation…

  • Fette Compacting – Advancing Pharmaceutical Safety Testing

    About Fette Compacting With more than 5,000 installed machines, Fette Compacting is the international market leader in the area of tablet presses in the pharmaceutical industry. Fette Compacting is based in Schwarzenbek, near Hamburg, and is a member of Excellence United — an alliance in the construction of special machines for the pharmaceutical industry. The…

  • ANTHC – Simulation for Critical Infrastructure

    About Anthc The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) is a non-profit tribal health organization designed to meet the unique health needs of Alaska Native and American Indian people living in Alaska. ANTHC provides the highest quality health services for Alaska Native people at the Alaska Native Medical Center and across Alaska through training, health…

  • Withings – Accelerating Medical Device Development

    About Withings Withings created the first smart scale in 2009 and has been the pioneer in connected health ever since. Its clinically validated and multi-award-winning range is used by millions worldwide and includes smart scales, hybrid watches, blood pressure monitors, sleep analyzers, and more. The team of engineers, data scientists, and healthcare professionals at Withings…

  • SOTAX – Cutting Dissolution Testing Design Time

    The Challenge During the dissolution process, SOTAX’s testing system “At Xtend” must keep the ambient temperature of the vessels within the system constant. For this, they use a temperature-controlled circulating water bath. The inlet and outlet of the circulating water were constructed in a way that the fluid could flow as evenly as possible through…

  • BellaSeno – Maximizing Flow Through 3D-Printed Implants

    The Challenge The technological success of the Senella® platform depends upon efficient vascularisation of the porous space within the implant volume such that the infiltrating tissue is adequately nourished. Due to this, it is very important that the pore architecture of the implant is designed to maximise fluid flow (and maximize fluid contact with the…

  • SYSTAG – Cutting Lab Reactor Heat Flux Variation 60%

    The Challenge SYSTAG’s engineers were faced with a challenge to optimize one of their flagship products—the FlexyCUBE lab reactor system. The FlexyCUBE is a controlled laboratory reactor that helps process engineers to perform quality risk analysis, parallel process optimisation, and design experiments. The company’s goal was to enhance the device to achieve uniform internal temperature…

  • Fluence Analytics – Testing 25 Design Configurations in Minutes

    The Challenge The engineers at Fluence Analytics decided to use simulations for their ARGEN product line. There are 16 optical assemblies within a system, so rigidity of the system is important. SimScale enabled the team to test different framing configurations with different materials to find an optimal balance of weight and rigidity. The team wanted…

  • Quantex – Optimizing Disposable Pump Design

    The Challenge Moving to new verticals and markets often requires the introduction of new products. Opportunities in the food dispensing business drove the development of the biggest pump so far—the Series 20 model. Making a new, bigger model posed multiple challenges. Expensive iterative modifications to the molds would have had to be applied and the…

  • Thermo-Consult – Optimizing a Cleanroom for Electron Microscopy

    The Challenge The main challenges of this HVACR project were the following Extreme strict air state stability criteria (0,25°C/20min and 1°C/24h) ISO 8 cleanroom classification Strict air flow pattern criteria to the cleanroom requirements: only upwards air stream is allowed Strict air velocity criteria: maximum air velocity at the lab equipment is 0,08 m/s The…