SUMMARY
To succeed as a designer of packaging machinery today, you must create highly innovative products and get them to market faster than your competitors. SolidWorks® software offers unique capabilities that can help you meet the challenge, enabling you to explore and test more design alternatives, improve quality, and streamline your entire development process.
Introduction
Today, the packaging machinery industry faces a unique set of challenges that stretches its engineering capabilities to the limits. Consumer goods producers are striving to evolve containers into new shapes to appeal to con- tinually changing customer needs and tastes. Nearly every machine produced by a packaging machinery company is a one-of-a-kind creation designed to bring a package designer’s creation to life, to increase production rates, or to lower costs.
To succeed in this business, you must be able to create new machines rapidly and easily. With SolidWorks software, you can reuse previous design work to create multiple variations of a product in a single document. Plus, you can develop and manage families of parts and models with different dimensions, components, properties, or other parameters. The goal, says a leading packag- ing machine designer, is to develop 80 to 90 percent of each new machine by using standard modules and components, and then use streamlined engi- neering processes to develop the other 10 to 20 percent in minimal time.
However, the need to move fast is not an excuse for making mistakes. When building a custom machine, you have to get it right the frst time; if not, you may have to redo it at your own expense. Getting it right means designing a machine that not only can perform well during acceptance testing, but also can operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, for years and years—and under environmental conditions that can vary from a dusty bakery to a damp dairy products plant.
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