The packaging industry is on the brink of process change—including manufacturing, materials and their applications. New concepts are being born via computer screens and virtually nurtured to create commercially-viable packages. This is taking place before ever touching the mold, creating an actual package or conducting a physical test. It’s important to understand various aspects of processing, material properties, package design, product characteristics, as well as specifications and performance parameters that need to be met.

Design guidelines have matured to the point where “moldable” geometry is part of the CAD software’s intelligent database. This helps take concepts, convert them to viable production ready designs and provide a degree of confidence as to whether the package can be manufactured. However, the output from this stage does not tell us if a specific performance characteristic—such as improving the drop impact performance—has been achieved.

Accelerate PET container development with Realistic Simulation

Discover how Plastic Technologies, Inc. (PTI), a leading plastic package design services company, uses realistic simulation to virtually conduct rapid prototyping, pre-production prototyping, and material evaluation engineering. With a broad swath of clients ranging from consumer product companies to plastic processors and material suppliers, PTI has a lot to juggle.

Client requests are diverse: from lightweighting needs to preferred container preform heating options, to getting to the root of product failures and creating new design solutions that work. Yet, this company manages to perform as many as 500 unique design developments per year with an average of five iterations per design for its clients. This output is possible because its go-to practice is simulation-led design that incorporates the realistic simulation tools found in Dassault Systèmes’ Perfect Package Industry Solution.

Simulation enables companies to achieve the lightest possible product that satisfies both customer and regulatory requirements. It does so by guiding design modifications, material thickness parameters and even manufacturing processes. Furthermore, it speeds up the entire design chain as new package designs can be simulated upfront to determine if they will work or fail prior to making samples.

Learn how Plastic Technologies, Inc. (PTI) uses realistic simulation to:

• Study filling, packing and distribution of material.
• Determine if a part can be blown with optimal thickness and geometry.
• Predict whether a container can be dropped without rupturing.

Watch the webinar, “Virtual Modeling’s Role in Improving Impact Performance of Plastic Containers.” Hear from Sumit Mukherjee, Director of CAE and Simulation at Plastic Technologies, as he studies the drop impact performance optimization of a 1 gallon oil bottle.

You will learn how virtual modeling enables package modification and optimization to achieve lighter weight, robust designs that are not only economical from a material savings point of view, but also from a reduced processing time.

Watch the webinar, “Virtual Modeling’s Role in Improving Impact Performance of Plastic Containers.”