Consumer Packaged Goods

Consumer Packaged Goods are normally low cost items that have a quick turnover such as toiletries, personal care items, detergents, and non-durables like glassware, bulbs, condoms, batteries, paper products and plastic goods. Manufacturers continually strive to cut development and production costs, reduce time-to-market, and improve their competitive edge. Companies at the forefront of the industry strongly emphasize product development, using some of the most advanced simulation tools available to evaluate alternatives, spot and fix mistakes in the early conceptual stages of development, and optimize designs so that products can sail through testing and production to get to market quickly.

Using finite element techniques to analytically represent the product or package and then simulate load and constraint conditions allows engineers to predict the performance of a concept design in advance of any investment in tooling, prototyping, or physical test validation. Design studies can be conducted to determine the effect of varying geometric features, material thickness, material properties, and/or alternative load cases. Product can be optimized for design features, weight, performance, and/or material.

SIMULIA has worked with major industry players to help them ease specific pains and define best practices. The Abaqus Unified Finite Element Analysis product suite from SIMULIA enables users to optimize designs within short development schedules. We understand that the efficient design of multiple configurations and the automatic application of changes throughout the design are critical to bringing your product to market quickly. Our solutions allow you to troubleshoot potential design problems before beginning to make prototypes, saving you substantial time and money.