Download PDF
Advancing Stretch Blow-Molding Machine Design with SOLIDWORKS Solutions
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization
- Functional Applications - Product Lifecycle Management Systems (PLM)
Applicable Industries
- Food & Beverage
- Packaging
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
- Product Research & Development
- Quality Assurance
Use Cases
- Digital Thread
- Remote Collaboration
Services
- Software Design & Engineering Services
- System Integration
- Training
The Challenge
Sidel India Pvt. Ltd. faced the challenge of accelerating the development of complex bottling and packaging machines while improving quality and shortening time-to-market. The company needed to transition from AutoCAD 2D design tools to a more advanced 3D design software to handle large assemblies efficiently. The goal was to make design changes quickly and easily, reduce design errors, and improve overall productivity.
About The Customer
Sidel India Pvt. Ltd. is a leading manufacturer of bottling and packaging machinery in India. A subsidiary of Sidel Participations, France, the company was incorporated in India in 1997 to manage bottling machinery development and manufacturing operations as part of the Sidel Group. The Sidel Group supplies and produces bottling machinery for some of the biggest names in the international food and beverage sector, including Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Danone, Nestlé, and Heineken. Sidel India develops and manufactures fully automatic, two-stage, stretch blow-molding machines for producing polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles and containers, which are widely used for beverages, food, and other liquids.
The Solution
Sidel India implemented SOLIDWORKS 3D design software, including SOLIDWORKS Standard, SOLIDWORKS Professional, and SOLIDWORKS Premium. They also adopted SOLIDWORKS Enterprise PDM for product data management and SOLIDWORKS Composer for technical communication. The transition to SOLIDWORKS enabled Sidel India to handle large assemblies more efficiently, make design changes quickly, and improve overall productivity. The SOLIDWORKS EPDM system helped tighten revision controls, automate development workflows, and extend access to 3D CAD data to other departments. SOLIDWORKS Composer accelerated the development of user manuals and training materials, improving the quality of documentation.
Operational Impact
Quantitative Benefit
Related Case Studies.
Case Study
The Kellogg Company
Kellogg keeps a close eye on its trade spend, analyzing large volumes of data and running complex simulations to predict which promotional activities will be the most effective. Kellogg needed to decrease the trade spend but its traditional relational database on premises could not keep up with the pace of demand.
Case Study
HEINEKEN Uses the Cloud to Reach 10.5 Million Consumers
For 2012 campaign, the Bond promotion, it planned to launch the campaign at the same time everywhere on the planet. That created unprecedented challenges for HEINEKEN—nowhere more so than in its technology operation. The primary digital content for the campaign was a 100-megabyte movie that had to play flawlessly for millions of viewers worldwide. After all, Bond never fails. No one was going to tolerate a technology failure that might bruise his brand.Previously, HEINEKEN had supported digital media at its outsourced datacenter. But that datacenter lacked the computing resources HEINEKEN needed, and building them—especially to support peak traffic that would total millions of simultaneous hits—would have been both time-consuming and expensive. Nor would it have provided the geographic reach that HEINEKEN needed to minimize latency worldwide.
Case Study
Energy Management System at Sugar Industry
The company wanted to use the information from the system to claim under the renewable energy certificate scheme. The benefit to the company under the renewable energy certificates is Rs 75 million a year. To enable the above, an end-to-end solution for load monitoring, consumption monitoring, online data monitoring, automatic meter data acquisition which can be exported to SAP and other applications is required.
Case Study
Coca Cola Swaziland Conco Case Study
Coco Cola Swaziland, South Africa would like to find a solution that would enable the following results: - Reduce energy consumption by 20% in one year. - Formulate a series of strategic initiatives that would enlist the commitment of corporate management and create employee awareness while helping meet departmental targets and investing in tools that assist with energy management. - Formulate a series of tactical initiatives that would optimize energy usage on the shop floor. These would include charging forklifts and running cold rooms only during off-peak periods, running the dust extractors only during working hours and basing lights and air-conditioning on someone’s presence. - Increase visibility into the factory and other processes. - Enable limited, non-intrusive control functions for certain processes.
Case Study
Temperature Monitoring for Restaurant Food Storage
When it came to implementing a solution, Mr. Nesbitt had an idea of what functionality that he wanted. Although not mandated by Health Canada, Mr. Nesbitt wanted to ensure quality control issues met the highest possible standards as part of his commitment to top-of-class food services. This wish list included an easy-to use temperature-monitoring system that could provide a visible display of the temperatures of all of his refrigerators and freezers, including historical information so that he could review the performance of his equipment. It also had to provide alert notification (but email alerts and SMS text message alerts) to alert key staff in the event that a cooling system was exceeding pre-set warning limits.
Case Study
IoT Data Analytics Case Study - Packaging Films Manufacturer
The company manufactures packaging films on made to order or configure to order basis. Every order has a different set of requirements from the product characteristics perspective and hence requires machine’s settings to be adjusted accordingly. If the film quality does not meet the required standards, the degraded quality impacts customer delivery causes customer dissatisfaction and results in lower margins. The biggest challenge was to identify the real root cause and devise a remedy for that.
