Medical

Successful medical products – implants, drug delivery systems, diagnostic equipment, clinical laboratory instruments, surgical devices, and pharmaceutical packaging – advance patient care. They also emphasize patient safety, while delivering efficiency and cost-containment. Manufacturers of these products must do all this within a stringent regulatory environment.

SolidWorks® software provides the full range of integrated modeling, simulation, visualization, communication, and compliance tools that medical product manufacturers need to design better products faster – and at lower cost.

Click on the links below to see how SolidWorks can help you meet your challenges at every stage of Medical Product design.

• Standardize your design process
• Ensure compliance with government and industry standards.
• Create conceptual designs and configurations quickly
• Create the most ergonomic designs possible
• Easily evaluate multiple design alternatives
• Reduce product development costs
• Bring your products to market faster
• Collaborate effectively and securely
• Design with standard components
• Publish complete, accurate documentation
• Produce high-quality drawings
• Ensure your designs are manufacturable

Standardize your design process

When you adopt SolidWorks software, you can integrate more streamlined, standardized procedures to your unique design and approval process. In fact, SolidWorks allows you to structure an entirely electronic process that leverages your native data and provides on-screen viewing and markup tools like SolidWorks eDrawings® files.

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Ensure compliance with government and industry standards.

Adherence to FDA 21 CFR Part 11 and FDA 21 CFR Part 820 is a primary consideration for medical product design teams. Using SolidWorks product data management, you’ll have the tools you need to remain in compliance – including electronic signatures, complete design revision history, and a full audit trail.

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Create conceptual designs or configurations quickly

Using Instant3D, you can easily put design ideas onscreen as workable conceptual models by translating 2D sketches and photos into 3D solids. SolidWorks also offers:

• Drawing capabilities, DWGviewer, and 3D Instant Website. Securely and effectively communicate your 3D work to any firm – even if they don’t use CAD.
• PhotoWorks™ and SolidWorks animation capabilities. Use photorealistic renderings and animations to clearly demonstrate how your devices will look and function.

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Create the most ergonomic designs possible

SolidWorks features powerful surfacing tools that include sweep/loft, bending, stretching, twisting, and tapering. Create complex ergonomic shapes and surfaces by simply pushing and pulling on control points.

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Easily evaluate multiple design alternatives

Thanks to SWIFT™ (SolidWorks Intelligent Feature Technology), our Heads-up Interface, and versioning tools, your design teams can create multiple variations of their 3D models with fewer picks and clicks. The SolidWorks learning curve is short, so beginners can design with expert-level skill. SolidWorks also offers:

• SolidWorks Workgroup PDM and SolidWorks Enterprise PDM solutions. Manage design versions, track changes, and prevent overwriting.

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Reduce product development costs

From concept right up to production, SolidWorks enables you to find cost savings throughout your product design process. Using tools like SolidWorks product data management and SolidWorks Search, you can quickly locate existing designs that you can leverage in your current projects. SolidWorks also offers:

• 3D ContentCentral®, an online repository with thousands of standard components.
• SolidWorks Toolbox, an extensive, shared library of standard fasteners and other parts. 
• Fully integrated design validation software. Reduce the cost of repeatedly constructing and testing physical prototypes. Eliminate mechanism and structural design failure with stress, thermal, kinematics, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis capabilities.

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Bring your products to market faster

Speed can give you a competitive edge when you’re developing new products. SolidWorks can bring speed and high quality to your design process with tools like SolidWorks project data management software. Use it to automate approvals and notifications, reduce compliance overhead, manage revisions, eliminate overwrites, and more. SolidWorks also offers:

• eDrawings®, DWGviewer, and 3D Instant Website. Securely and effectively communicate your 3D work to anyone. Engage your customers and suppliers earlier in the design process. 
• PhotoWorks™ and SolidWorks Animator. Use photorealistic renderings and animations to clearly demonstrate how your products will look and perform.
• Fully integrated design validation software. Reduce time spent building and testing prototypes with stress, thermal, kinematics, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis capabilities.
  

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Collaborate effectively and securely

Even widely distributed design groups can function like tight teams with SolidWorks. Tools like eDrawings, PhotoWorks, and SolidWorks Animator enable designers to securely distribute highly accurate images for revision and comment. SolidWorks also offers:

• Secure Vault, which allows protected, web-based access to proprietary data from any computer.

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Design with standard components

By logging in to 3DContentCentral.com, you can access a vendor’s latest parts, including functionality and performance specification data. You’ll also find component costs for use in your estimates. SolidWorks also offers:

• Smart Fasteners Technology and Smart Components for automated assembly of frequently used hardware and components.
• SolidWorks Toolbox. An extensive shared library of standard fasteners and other parts.

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Publish complete, accurate documentation

When your products are ready for production and release, SolidWorks provides integrated bill of material (BOM) generation capabilities, enabling you to drive on-time component delivery and meet production deliverables. SolidWorks also offers:

• 3DVIA Composer. Create accurate, detailed assembly procedures, technical manuals, and consumer instructions.

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Produce high-quality drawings

Accurate and understandable drawings are vital to manufacturing efficiency. With the SolidWorks Design Checker tool, you can ensure that your team’s drawings comply fully with your company’s standards. SolidWorks also offers:

• DimXpert. Intelligently automates dimensioning and tolerancing of 3D models, then translates data seamlessly to 2D drawings.

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Ensure your designs are manufacturable

Your team has designed a breakthrough device, but can it be manufactured once the design gets to the production floor? You can get the answer – and save significant costs – with DFMXpress, which will test your design for machinability. SolidWorks also offers:

• TolAnalyst integrated tolerance stack-up analysis
• Certified CAM Partners, seamlessly integrated with SolidWorks to automatically generate NC code from your files.
• SolidWorks Manufacturing Network. Quickly identify compatible service providers that use native SolidWorks software.

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