Dassault Systèmes
About us
Dassault Systèmes is a catalyst for human progress. Operating in three sectors – Life Sciences & Healthcare, Infrastructure & Cities, and Manufacturing Industries – we provide businesses and people with collaborative virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations.
A pioneer in computer-aided design founded in 1981, Dassault Systèmes has expanded into a diverse range of software categories, including 3D modeling, simulation, information intelligence, and social and collaborative processes.
By creating virtual experience twins of the real world, our customers push the boundaries of innovation capable of harmonizing product, nature and life.
Dassault Systèmes’ customers use our 3DEXPERIENCE platform to design and test their ideas in the virtual world so they can better respond to today’s experience economy where consumers value experiences over products. 3DEXPERIENCE also extends into the organic world, where the human body can be modeled with a virtual experience twin and tested as precisely, safely and effectively as products in traditional industry.
Dassault Systèmes’ corporate culture promotes a questioning mindset, exploring possibilities and connecting people to bring about meaningful change.
Dassault Systèmes’ nearly 25,000 employees bring value to over 370,000 customers of all sizes, in diverse industries, in 142 countries. For more information, visit us at www.3ds.com.
Products & services
Use Simulation for CPG Packaging Testing and Qualification
How Virtual Testing for Packaging Reduces Time and Cost by 50% Packaging leaders have long used physical testing as the standard method to determine the viability of new product designs. While physical testing will give you a good amount of information about how packaging designs will react to certain physical stimuli (dropping, stacking, consumer usage), it has significant drawbacks. It can be time consuming and costly without providing the confidence that the package has been completely optimized for weight, structural design and transport. One proven solution is to use virtual testing, or simulation, to find the optimal tradeoff between time, cost, quality and sustainability. Explore the capabilities of the virtual testing solution that can qualify and optimize the weight, cost and development time of consumer packaging.
Customer Story: Amcor Rigid Packaging
The Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry accounts for approximately two-thirds of international trade volumes. Although the industry faces significant sustainability challenges on multiple fronts (CO2 emissions, food waste, excess packaging), Accenture estimates that applying virtual twins to product design in CPG could reduce the industry’s raw material costs by US$131 billion; reduce product development costs by US$6 billion; and achieve a 281 metric tons (Mt) reduction in CO2-equivalent (CO2e) output. One CPG company that is proving out these savings: Amcor Rigid Packaging, which makes packaging for thousands of CPG products, including food and beverage, healthcare, home and personal products. Each year, Amcor Rigid Packaging makes an estimated 68 billion containers, preforms and closures – but its environmental impacts are decreasing as its output grows. How? In part, Amcor executives point to their ability to perfect the company’s resin-saving packaging designs virtually, without producing physical prototypes for testing. Since 2006, Amcor’s use of virtual twins has allowed the company to engineer strong, protective plastic bottles with less plastic. In the past year alone, lightweighting launches will account for 400 metric tonnes of resin savings. To achieve this, Amcor subjects virtual twins of its new designs to varying temperatures and humidities, weight loads, drop conditions and other performance tests in the computer – proving and perfecting performance without testing a single physical bottle. This virtual prototyping ability has helped Amcor develop designs that have reduced the weight of its bottles by 35% to 50%. By reducing weight, these designs also reduce the energy required to transport Amcor’s containers.
Green packaging for the sustainably-minded consumer
RETAL is one of the largest PET preform manufacturers in Europe and central Asia with sights set on international expansion. “RETAL produces packaging solutions for companies all over the world in the food and beverage industry for water, carbonated beverages, juice, milk, as well as for cosmetics and household goods,” Andrew Huestis, public relations director, RETAL said. “We produce screw caps, also called closures, as well as preforms, which are tube-like pieces of plastic that are blown, using a process called stretch blow molding, into a PET container.” In addition to producing standard preforms from its extensive range, which vary in neck finish, weight, color and shape, RETAL also manufactures custom preforms tailored to individual customer requirements. “The packaging industry is driven by sustainability and time to market as well as by innovation because customers want distinctive packaging. We strive to excel in all three,” Huestis said.
Accelerate Sustainable and Profitable Packaging with Digitalization
Companies in the packaging supplier industry are under pressure to deliver more sustainable designs, become more eco-efficient in operations, and get to market faster. The only way to respond is through fully digitalized operations and management. You can, when you leverage a single source of truth that enables you to: Develop new, market-oriented packaging quickly while reducing costs Gain total visibility to balance production capacities with ease Lower environmental impact by streamlining logistics and eliminating the need for physical prototypes Expand portfolio by increasing value-added services Read our exclusive ebook to gain new perspectives that can help you transform and bring your packaging business to new heights.
DELIVERING SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING SUCCESS
Six to seven seconds. That’s how long consumers take to find and choose a product. Is your packaging driving — or hindering — product sales? Consumers and regulators are pressuring leaders to pivot and transform fast. If you’re reading this, then you’re on the right path to pick up the pace towards sustainable packaging. This executive playbook is designed to help you deploy the right end-to-end strategy, powered by the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform, that will turn sustainable packaging into a growth driver for your business.
Metsa Board Customer Story
Leading European paperboard producer Metsä Board required a platform that could help it accelerate its rate of innovation to better meet its customers’ needs for sustainable packaging solutions that achieve the optimal balance between strength, size and performance. It needed advanced 3D simulation capabilities in order to expedite time to market.