Journey to the Shelf

DASSAULT SYSTEMES JOURNEY TO THE SHELF Bottle designers often create beautiful, innovative concepts, but retreat to conventional square, cylindrical, or rectangular shapes if the bottle can't move efficiently through the filling and shipping process. HOW VIRTUAL TESTING CUTS TIME AND COSTS IN HALF TO MAKE, FILL, Virtual Testing enables designers to simulate how a new bottle design will behave at every stage of its lifecycle, lowering costs, improving sustainability and driving consumers to put their products in shopping baskets. AND SHIP NEW PACKAGING BLOW MOLDING Reduces raw material costs by optimizing preform shape to produce the desired final thickness distribution. CONVEYING Reduces damage cost by ensuring bottles won't get stuck or tip over in the assembly line. FILLING Predicts how the package will behave after filling the product and measures the filled volume. LABELING Improves package quality by predicting if new bottle design will cause tearing or wrinkling of labels. CAPPING Estimates amount of torque required to open and close the cap while maintaining seal integrity. CASING Reduces shipping damage by predicting final package shape in shrink wrap and whether the case can sustain PALLETING Reduces bottle breakage by predicting bottle behavior from top-load (of bottle weight) in a pallet. shape during handling. THE BENEFITS OF VIRTUAL TESTING 18 > 9 MONTHS 1 WEEK > 1 HOUR Reduction in design cycle when you reduce the need for physical prototypes through virtual testing.' Amount of time by which process automation can reduce design iteration.? 75% 27% Reduction of package development Reduction of raw materials experienced by some manufacturers using virtual testing. time and effort.3 3-6 MONTHS 50% Amount of time saved in redesign cycle by running a capping simulation.5 Amount of time saved due to simulation during palleting design phase." MILLIONS Dollars saved by shaving off just a few grams from packaging when billions of units are produced.' Go to www.3ds.com/process-mfg to learn more. 1. Amcor designs reduced-plastic bottles with Dassault Systèmes PLM 4. Silgan Containers Uses State-of-the Art Simulation Software for Predicting Can Performance Silgan Containers, Realistic Simulation News, May 2009 Amcor, Customer Story, 2011 2. Keeping Carbonation Bottled Up with FEA Saint-Gobain, SIMULIA Community News, 2013 5. Closure System Bottle Cap Redesign Closure Systems International 3. Aluminum Bottle Forming Simulation with Abaqus The Coca-Cola Company and Dassault Systèmes, SIMULIA Community Conference Paper, 2009