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. They adopted Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform and its industry solution Perfect Package, which allows them to offer a new service for their customers called Metsä Board 360 Services. Using the advanced simulation technologies this service helps Metsä Board create virtual twins of its packaging solutions, and compare their performance against customers’ existing solutions in a variety of simulated conditions. Compared to physical prototyping, the company can propose new packaging solutions 85% faster. 

Metsä Board now benefits from finite element (FEM) simulation usingAbaqus technology on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Using these simulation capabilities, the company can take a 3D design drawing, or measure the dimensions of an existing package sample, and use this structural data together with the strength data of the paperboard to calculate the strength of a complete packaging design.