Siemens Highlights Opensource Ventilator Digital Twin at IAB’s Virtual Fall Meeting
Siemens Highlights Opensource Ventilator Digital Twin at IAB’s Virtual Fall Meeting
On September 2, 2020, the ASME Industry Advisory Board (IAB) held its virtual fall meeting, which continued the IAB’s exploration of the topic of digital transformation and how it is affecting the engineering industry. The meeting highlighted a specific example by Siemens of the digital twin of an open source ventilator and how it could be leveraged by manufacturers to speed up ventilator production.
After a short introduction by, Siemens USA CEO Barbara Humpton, Dr. Mark Palmer, IAB member and Distinguished Scientist at Medtronic, introduced the two speakers, Alexandra Francois-Saint-Cyr and Laurence Sampson, of Siemens Digital Industries Software. After Medtronic released a ventilator as opensource at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Siemens saw an opportunity to leverage its digital enterprise portfolio to help its customers conceptualize and simulate the entire value chain from initial product design, via production planning and manufacturing, to product compliance and closed-loop quality.
During the presentation, Francois-Saint-Cyr said, “Leveraging simulation to generate digital evidence in key business processes such as verification management can substantially reduce the time to product clearance (ASME standard V&V40-2018 provides guidance for medical devices). In addition, companies should implement a digital thread approach to verification in order to enable full traceability from requirements to engineering data.”
“With a well-constructed design control process and a digital twin strategy in place, re-use of existing data becomes a tremendous benefit to companies. Engineering time can then be spent on what really matters such as the new product features,” said Sampson.
IAB then used a post-presentation survey to help identify IAB expectations more generally with respect to value and usage of digital twins in the engineering industry in the future. Areas of emphasis centered on the ability to perform tasks more efficiently as well as becoming more agile and to adapt to situations.
For additional information about the IAB virtual fall meeting or the IAB in general, please contact Melissa Carl at carlm@asme.org or Susie Cabanas at cabanass@asme.org.
After a short introduction by, Siemens USA CEO Barbara Humpton, Dr. Mark Palmer, IAB member and Distinguished Scientist at Medtronic, introduced the two speakers, Alexandra Francois-Saint-Cyr and Laurence Sampson, of Siemens Digital Industries Software. After Medtronic released a ventilator as opensource at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Siemens saw an opportunity to leverage its digital enterprise portfolio to help its customers conceptualize and simulate the entire value chain from initial product design, via production planning and manufacturing, to product compliance and closed-loop quality.
During the presentation, Francois-Saint-Cyr said, “Leveraging simulation to generate digital evidence in key business processes such as verification management can substantially reduce the time to product clearance (ASME standard V&V40-2018 provides guidance for medical devices). In addition, companies should implement a digital thread approach to verification in order to enable full traceability from requirements to engineering data.”
“With a well-constructed design control process and a digital twin strategy in place, re-use of existing data becomes a tremendous benefit to companies. Engineering time can then be spent on what really matters such as the new product features,” said Sampson.
IAB then used a post-presentation survey to help identify IAB expectations more generally with respect to value and usage of digital twins in the engineering industry in the future. Areas of emphasis centered on the ability to perform tasks more efficiently as well as becoming more agile and to adapt to situations.
For additional information about the IAB virtual fall meeting or the IAB in general, please contact Melissa Carl at carlm@asme.org or Susie Cabanas at cabanass@asme.org.
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