Smart product and process design for consumer goods

A collection of smart products designed using the power of the digital twin.

Consumer goods manufacturing is a dynamic industry that requires companies to keep up with ever-changing trends. As consumers become increasingly conscientious about the products they purchase and the types of companies they buy from, consumer goods manufacturers discover that they must adapt their products faster than previously anticipated. Additionally, customers want unique product experiences and instant access to advanced, connected devices and commodities. To deliver exceptional customer experiences, consumer product manufacturers must develop new behaviorally responsive products that meet sustainability standards while improving consumers' lives.

Implementing a plan based on a digital thread validation strategy can aid manufacturers in overcoming some of their most significant challenges. Smart product design and process design enable companies to leverage simulation and concurrent production to ensure manufacturability at the required speed, quality, and cost as an integrated total product solution.

Consumer goods manufacturing is a dynamic industry that requires companies to keep up with ever-changing trends. As consumers become increasingly conscientious about the products they purchase and the types of companies they buy from, consumer goods manufacturers discover that they must adapt their products faster than previously anticipated. Additionally, customers want unique product experiences and instant access to advanced, connected devices and commodities. To deliver exceptional customer experiences, consumer product manufacturers must develop new behaviorally responsive products that meet sustainability standards while improving consumers' lives.

Implementing a plan based on a digital thread validation strategy can aid manufacturers in overcoming some of their most significant challenges. Smart product design and process design enable companies to leverage simulation and concurrent production to ensure manufacturability at the required speed, quality, and cost as an integrated total product solution.

A commercial expresso maker. A smart product designed using the power of the digital twin.

Learn More

Given the concerns confronting consumer goods manufacturers today, having access to an integrated end-to-end product development portfolio that enables digitalization is critical. Combining a multi-disciplinary approach to development and virtual validation with simulation and concurrent smart product design solutions ensures manufacturability at the desired speed, quality, and cost.

The digital twin's power enables manufacturers to develop products responsive to consumers' needs and desires, bridging the gap between concept, design, and production.

Discover the power of the digital twin

Multi-disciplinary product design includes digital twin products, and digital twin manufacturing. As a complete set of solutions, manufacturers can use it to virtually design any smart product and connect it to its manufacturing process, building an integrated environment while considering all change drivers.

Process design and validation let companies implement parallel development processes while maximizing design reuse and increasing collaboration by connecting processes and a single data source for materials, geometry, electronics, software, packaging, artwork, tests, and production data.

Manufacturing validation enables manufacturers to determine whether products can be manufactured and packaged virtually. This process allows for the elimination of physical testing and reduced production time. Additionally, manufacturers can run hundreds of iterations to optimize the design of their product and manufacturing process for quality, cost, and manufacturability.

Explore smart product and process design

By utilizing cutting-edge technologies, consumer goods manufacturers can reap the benefits of product and manufacturing simulation processes such as design automation, design optimization, and virtual validation. Having access to innovative solutions ensures that brands can effectively launch new smart products and modify current ones. These technological capabilities will allow all brands to keep up with existing trends and be abreast of emerging concepts while remaining relevant.

Click to explore more about our solutions for product design and validation and process design and validation.

A commercial expresso maker. A smart product designed using the power of the digital twin.

Fonctionnalités de la solution

Explore the key areas of this solution.

Adaptable PLM Foundation

An adaptable product lifecycle management (PLM) foundation can help you respond quickly to change from business or market disruptions. Business-wide collaboration is easy when PLM is accessible from a web browser, on any device, and within the design tools and office applications people use every day. You can choose from flexible deployment options (on-premises, cloud, SaaS) for fast time-to-value and lower cost of ownership.

Design for Additive Manufacture

La fabrication additive modifie la façon dont les produits sont conçus et fabriqués, en permettant des conceptions optimisées qui étaient auparavant impossibles ou trop coûteuses à réaliser. Concevez, optimisez et construisez des composants métalliques et plastiques en utilisant les dernières méthodes de fabrication additive.

Environmental Compliance & Product Sustainability

Restez en conformité et répondez à vos besoins de développement durable grâce à la gestion des matériaux et des substances, au traitement automatisé des déclarations des fournisseurs, à la notation de la conformité environnementale et aux rapports correspondants, ainsi qu’à un cadre de PLM pour le développement durable.

Fluid dynamics simulation

Simcenter offre un logiciel de mécanique des fluides numérique de pointe, qui vous permet de simuler presque tous les problèmes d’ingénierie impliquant des flux de liquides, de gaz ou d’une combinaison des deux, ainsi que tous les phénomènes physiques associés.

Industrial Design & Styling

Une conception et un style distinctifs donnent aux entreprises un avantage concurrentiel. Nos logiciels fournissent des outils de conception industrielle assistée par ordinateur flexibles et robustes ainsi qu’un outil de stylisme, qui accélèrent l’ingénierie de vos produits en fournissant rapidement des concepts directement utilisables pour la modélisation.

Manufacturing Process Planning

Rédigez avec efficience des plans de processus de fabrication et communiquez-les efficacement dans toute votre entreprise.

Structural Simulation

Dans tous les secteurs d’activité, il est capital de comprendre comment un composant ou un assemblage réagit aux contraintes ou aux vibrations. Les produits et les matériaux sont de plus en plus complexes, les ingénieurs ont donc besoin d’outils qui vont au-delà des analyses statiques linéaires. Simcenter regroupe dans un même environnement utilisateur toutes les solutions dont vous avez besoin pour résoudre une grande variété de problèmes d’analyse structurelle.