Innovation and collaborative, synchronized program management for new programs
Today’s designers of consumer goods packaging face new challenges such as ensuring transparency into environmental compliance, keeping up with faster product cycles, and countering new levels of mechanical stress caused by online commerce and direct shipments to consumers. We offer a fully integrated suite of tools that enables rapid package development, from initial concept to detail package, including full associativity between product and production equipment as well as advanced design and simulation capabilities.
Today’s designers of consumer goods packaging face new challenges such as ensuring transparency into environmental compliance, keeping up with faster product cycles, and countering new levels of mechanical stress caused by online commerce and direct shipments to consumers. We offer a fully integrated suite of tools that enables rapid package development, from initial concept to detail package, including full associativity between product and production equipment as well as advanced design and simulation capabilities.
Package design for consumer goods has changed in recent years so that a package that is visually appealing is no longer enough. Consumers want the package to tell them about the product’s composition and its impact on the environment. In addition, online commerce, with direct delivery to the customer instead of a retailer, requires packages capable of withstanding different shipping forces and stresses.
Today’s package designers must optimize the use of material, leverage modern manufacturing possibilities, and offer ways for consumers to completely trace all of the substances used. Today’s best practice requires a combination of technologies encompassed in a single platform that delivers modern design capabilities (for achieving an aesthetic look), feature libraries (for speeding up the design process), and simulation capabilities (for understanding and managing the forces and applied stresses on the package). There must also be a collaboration platform that enables product designers to share information and data with package designers.
Our solution supports this best practice. It is a fully integrated, single suite of tools that enables rapid development of primary, secondary and tertiary packaging, from initial concept to detail package, including full associativity between product and production equipment.
Explore the key areas of this solution.
Virtually test your package by simulating stress and pressure to ensure safe delivery to consumers while optimizing the amount of material used.
Use your package models for visual reports of product and package data. Quickly synthesize information, check designs for compliance to requirements, and make informed decisions.
Optimize package shape with powerful, integrated industrial design and styling software. Combine various modeling approaches for fast and easy shape creation, supported by scanning your package prototype geometry.
Build a library of design features not only for elementary elements like a thread, but also for consistently applied design elements that identify product ranges.
Make package design data an equal component of a shared, multi-disciplinary product dataset.
Enhance your understanding of corrugated/solid packages with the ability to flatten secondary cardboard packages. Work with three-dimensional solids and curved surfaces for glass, metal and plastic packages.
Automate the design of molds, progressive dies, stamping dies and fixtures using process-based design applications. Streamline the entire tool development process including part and tooling design, tool assembly and validation.