Tetra Pak, a Swedish packing company, has increased the usage of ANSYS products. This helped company to perform virtual prototyping at the concept phase and to speed up development time significantly.
Tetra Pak, one of the leading companies providing food processing and packaging solutions, has expanded its use of ANSYS(R) products. The company is applying simulation driven product development(TM) using ANSYS software, which enables system analysis and leverages single-component modeling as an integrated part of the process.
Technology from ANSYS enables customers to optimise designs throughout the product development process, especially in the early stages when changes can be efficiently and cost-effectively implemented.
Using a system approach allows Tetra Pak to study product behavior from a multiphysics viewpoint, enabling complex simulations of physical interactions such as fluid flow, temperature, velocity and evaporation. The company instituted the change in an effort to drive design concepts based on upfront performance predictions rather than late-stage test-and-change cycles, thus speeding up design time and time to market.
Laurence Mott, vice president of packaging technology, Tetra Pak, said: “This is allowing us to simulate entire filling machine processes even before prototyping. It has helped speed up development time significantly, in some cases saving us years of development effort.”
Mott explained that the aim of Tetra Pak is to perform virtual prototyping at the concept phase, well before any physical testing is done.
Mott added: “We found that ANSYS provided the cutting-edge solutions that enable us to perform complex simulations in a user-friendly format. ANSYS is a committed, long-term partner that has taken an active part in helping us to develop the working methods of simulation driven product development.”