PITTSBURGH, May 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --
/ Key Highlights
- Fast Company's 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards is
focused on social good, seeking to elevate products and concepts
that make the world better
- Ansys recognized as a finalist in the Software category;
receives honorable mention in the Healthcare category
The winners of Fast Company's 2021 World Changing Ideas
Awards were announced today, honoring the businesses, policies,
projects, and concepts that are actively engaged and deeply
committed to pursuing innovation when it comes to solving health
and climate crises, social injustice, or economic inequality. Ansys
(NASDAQ: ANSS) was recognized as a finalist in the Software
category and received an honorable mention in the Healthcare
category.
Ansys was recognized for generating a digital twin of the human
heart. Ansys is working to revolutionize the treatment of
potentially fatal heart arrythmias by creating patient-specific
digital twins of human hearts that can be used to plan treatments
and guide medical procedures. A key component of the digital twin
is Ansys' reduced order model (ROM), a simplified version of a
high-fidelity model that makes computations faster with minimal
sacrifice in predictive accuracy. While a simulation of a full
model may consume hours, a ROM significantly speeds up the process,
empowering a cardiologist to view results in real time.
This digital twin combines MRI imaging of the heart with a
physics-based electrophysiological simulation, which will enable
physicans to visualize a complete picture of the heart's function,
including the entire electric field that keeps it beating. Further
development, testing and regulatory approvals are ongoing to
achieve full-scale deployment of the digital twin into operating
rooms.
A panel of eminent Fast Company editors and reporters
selected winners and finalists from a pool of more than 4,000
entries across transportation, education, food, politics,
technology, and more. Plus, several new categories were added,
including Pandemic Response, Urban Design, and Architecture. The
2021 awards feature entries from across the globe, from
Brazil to Denmark to Vietnam.
Showcasing some of the world's most inventive entrepreneurs and
companies tackling exigent global challenges, Fast Company's
Summer 2021 issue (on newsstands May
10) highlights, among others, a lifesaving bassinet; the
world's largest carbon sink, thanks to carbon-eating concrete;
3D-printed schools; an at-home COVID-19 testing kit; a mobile
voting app; and the world's cleanest milk.
"Ansys' industry-leading simulation solutions have the potential
to transform patient-specific healthcare," said Prith Banerjee, chief technology officer at
Ansys. "In this case, through our work on the digital twin of a
human heart — we are working to provide surgeons with valuable
patient information, reduce the duration of ablation procedures and
enhance fidelity."
"There is no question our society and planet are facing deeply
troubling times. So, it's important to recognize organizations that
are using their ingenuity, impact, design, scalability, and passion
to solve these problems," says Stephanie
Mehta, editor-in-chief of Fast Company. "Our
journalists, under the leadership of senior editor Morgan Clendaniel, have discovered some of the
most groundbreaking projects that have launched since the start of
2020."
/ About the World Changing Ideas Awards
World Changing
Ideas is one of Fast Company's major annual awards programs
and is focused on social good, seeking to elevate finished products
and brave concepts that make the world better. A panel of judges
from across sectors choose winners, finalists, and honorable
mentions based on feasibility and the potential for impact. With
the goals of awarding ingenuity and fostering innovation, Fast
Company draws attention to ideas with great potential and
helps them expand their reach to inspire more people to start
working on solving the problems that affect us all.
/ About Ansys
If you've ever seen a rocket launch,
flown on an airplane, driven a car, used a computer, touched a
mobile device, crossed a bridge or put on wearable technology,
chances are you've used a product where Ansys software played a
critical role in its creation. Ansys is the global leader in
engineering simulation. Through our strategy of Pervasive
Engineering Simulation, we help the world's most innovative
companies deliver radically better products to their customers. By
offering the best and broadest portfolio of engineering simulation
software, we help them solve the most complex design challenges and
create products limited only by imagination. Founded in 1970, Ansys
is headquartered south of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Visit www.ansys.com for more
information.
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kelsey.debriyn@ansys.com
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