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Engineering simulation for healthcare and medical devices
SimScale is the AI-native cloud platform engineers use to design medical devices, pharma production lines, hospital systems, and medical logistics. CFD, FEA, thermal, and electromagnetic analysis in one place. No HPC headaches.
Medical and pharma engineers lose months to siloed tools, HPC queues, and IT bottlenecks. SimScale brings CFD, FEA, thermal, and EM analysis into one AI-native platform. No infrastructure required.
How SimScale benefits healthcare engineering teams
Cut design-to-prototype time from weeks to days
Replace expensive physical prototyping cycles with virtual testing.
Support regulatory and safety workflows with traceable evidence
CFD and FEA results give engineering teams the quantitative evidence they need for internal review, supplier conversations, and regulator-facing dossiers.
Roll simulation out to the full engineering team, not just analysts
Browser-based access removes the licensing, install, and HPC bottlenecks that keep simulation locked inside a small CAE group. Design engineers, mechanical engineers, and pharma R&D scientists all share the same project, in the same workspace, in real time.
Simulation built for healthcare engineering
All physics, one platform: CFD, FEA, thermal, electromagnetics
Solve the cross-disciplinary problems that define healthcare engineering. CFD for inhaler aerosol delivery and cleanroom airflow. FEA for stent fatigue, snap-fit clips, and implant integrity. Conjugate heat transfer for wearable thermal comfort. Electromagnetics for device coil design. One project, one team, one set of results.
Physics AI for instant iteration on devices and components
Engineering AI automates setup and post-processing. Physics AI delivers near-instant predictions on trained models, so design engineers can sweep thousands of geometries inside a working day rather than queuing overnight runs.
Cloud-native collaboration across distributed engineering teams
Mechanical engineers, process engineers, regulatory leads, and external consultants all open the same project in a browser. No VPN, no remote desktop, no HPC ticket.
Proven across the healthcare portfolio
From a single snap-fit clip on a home monitor to the airflow inside an operating theatre, SimScale covers the breadth of healthcare engineering simulation.
Medical devices and wearables
CFD and FEA on the components inside connected health products. Validate snap-fit mechanisms, housings, sensors, and seals against real-world use cycles before committing to prototypes.
Drug delivery and pharma manufacturing
Containment CFD on tablet presses, mixing CFD on pharma vessels, and FEA on bench-top instruments. Model dust dispersion of active pharmaceutical ingredients, optimise mixing parameters, and validate the structural integrity of dispensing hardware.
Hospital airflow, cleanroom design, and infection control
External and internal airflow CFD for healthcare facilities. Assess re-entrainment risk on exhaust stacks, validate ventilation against ASHRAE standards, and control contamination in cleanrooms to ISO 14644.
Implants and biomechanics
CFD for fluid flow inside porous and additively manufactured implants. FEA for structural integrity of orthopaedic, dental, and surgical instruments. Optimise pore architecture for vascularisation and validate load paths under physiological loading conditions.
Medical logistics and emergency response
Aerodynamics on medical delivery drones, HVAC design on ambulances, and thermal management of patient transport cabins. Run 360° wind comfort analyses to find safe landing and take-off sites, and validate climate control systems for extreme operating conditions.
7× faster / weeks → days
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"By using the novel mechanical simulation based in the cloud offered by SimScale, we engineers at Withings have been able to reduce our design-to-prototype cycles from weeks to days."
60% overall cost savings
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"Our work with SimScale gives us the ability to design smarter, test faster, and validate ideas earlier in the process. In our industry, where reliability and safety are non-negotiable, having confidence in our designs before we even build prototypes is a game changer."
66% return on investment through cloud CFD
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"Implant geometries are very complicated and need to be evaluated in a three dimensional view to be understood and optimized efficiently. With standard simulation, the mesh would be too large and the simulations too computationally expensive to run on local PCs. SimScale has made it possible to run several incompressible CFD analyses on the cloud with full computing power, without the need to invest in expensive hardware."
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FAQs
New to healthcare simulation or evaluating SimScale? Here are the questions we hear most.
ContactConnected health and wearable devices, drug-delivery systems, surgical instruments, implants, pharma manufacturing equipment, cleanrooms, hospital HVAC, and medical logistics vehicles. The same project can mix CFD, FEA, thermal, and electromagnetic analyses on one platform.
No. SimScale runs in the browser on any laptop. Compute is elastic and provisioned automatically, so a single engineer or a 200-seat team gets the same on-demand HPC behind the scenes. No VPN, no remote desktop, no waiting on IT.
SimScale produces traceable CFD and FEA evidence that engineering teams use inside their internal V&V documentation and dossier preparation. The platform itself is not FDA-cleared (the device gets cleared, not the simulation tool), but customers like Withings and BellaSeno use SimScale as part of the design evidence for medical-grade products.
Yes. Conjugate heat transfer for wearable thermal comfort, fluid-structure interaction for valves and pumps in drug delivery, and nonlinear FEA for snap-fit and contact mechanics all run on the same platform. Hexagon's Marc solver is also available inside SimScale for advanced nonlinear medical device work.
Yes. Cloud-native architecture, browser-based access, SSO, and usage-based pricing make rollouts straightforward from a single team up to enterprise scale. Customers like Withings deploy across distributed mechanical, electrical, and design engineering teams.
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