Tetra Pak, a Sweden-based provider of food processing and packaging systems, has extended its contract with Ansys, a global developer and marketer of engineering simulation technologies. The packaging company uses Ansys software to implement Simulation Driven Product Development.
The Swedish company said that Ansys software enables system analysis and leverages single-component modelling as an integrated part of the process, allowing customers to optimize 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 behaviour from a multiphysics viewpoint, enabling complex simulations of physical interactions such as fluid flow, temperature, velocity and evaporation.
Laurence Mott, Vice President of packaging technology for 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."
According to Mr Mott, Tetra Pak's objective is to perform virtual prototyping at the concept phase, well before any physical testing is done.
Josh Fredberg, vice president of marketing at Ansys, said: "Throughout the manufacturing industry in general, a number of trends are evident: rapid prototyping, improved and automated techniques and easy-to-use software for design of experiments, all of which bring higher accuracy and increased speed."
Tetra Pak has a customer base that spans to around 170 countries around the world. The company has locations in nearly 85 countries with around 22,000 employees.
