Food Processing

Food & beverage: Mixing, settling, conveying, chilling
Packaging & bottling: Bottle filling, conveying, forming, squeezing
Non-Newtonian flows: Viscous product (ketchup, mayonnaise, and toothpaste) squeezing and filling
EMAG Food & beverage: Induction and microwave heating.

CFD can be used as a tool for design of food processing equipment. Its applications include the cleaning of storage tanks, crystallization, conventional cyclones, drying, sterilization, crystallization, mixing and refrigeration, fermentation and baking

Additive Manufacturing

Simulation will play an upfront role in determining how to orient a part in a printer for the least amount of distortion and predict the microstructure and macrostructure behaviour of parts to direct material deposit or identify gaps and overheating areas on the build plate
AM simulation can help predict and prevent a range of 3D printing failure modes, and avoid extensive distortion, support structure issues and interference with the re-coater blade which are a common with metal AM technologies
Simulation can aid in parts certification to reduce the amount of destructive physical tests, help to determine the best part candidates for AM processes and automatically tune the machines based on individual part characteristics

Simulation helps to Move beyond prototyping into production-scale 3D printing addressing the challenges of printing the part first time right and maintain the consistence in quality.

Workflow that optimize build plate layout and support placement to more sophisticated capabilities such as design identification and recalibration in the virtual world to address part deformation before the print runs

Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) FEA and CFD

Package performance: Pressurization, package life estimation, drop test, bottle squeezing, sealing, opening/dispensing
Bottle & paperboard carton forming analysis: Plastic bottle blow-moulding, aluminium bottle forming, metal can forming, glass bottle forming, paperboard carton forming
Package processing: Package conveying, cooling and filling
Optimization and design improvement: Bottle/container, material replacement, package design alternatives, manufacturing process

Simulation replaces trial-and-error processes and a reliance on tribal knowledge to pave the way for widespread adoption for production use cases

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