Emhart Glass Enhances Bottle Creation Process with ANSYS SpaceClaim

Emhart Glass Research Center, a leading international supplier of equipment, controls, and parts to the glass container industry, was facing challenges in their bottle creation process. The Center, which focuses on developing enhanced glassforming methods, increasing automation and improving yields, was struggling with the complexities of heat, fluid, and air issues in their modeling process. Senior Mechanical Engineer, Pierre Ngankeu, was tasked with performing multi-physics analysis on design concepts, with a focus on fluid dynamics and heat transfer during the molding process. However, the modeling and pre-processing were time-consuming, often taking days for each simulation. Pierre had to work with foreign CAD data, deal with meshing and density issues, and create the flow domain before analysis. Additionally, there was usually not a lot of data available for many of the processes, adding to the complexity of preparing models for simulation.

Emhart Glass Research Center is a part of Emhart Glass, a Bucher company, and is a leading international supplier of equipment, controls, and parts to the glass container industry. The Center focuses on developing enhanced glassforming methods, increasing automation, and improving yields. It includes a complete production line, enabling Emhart engineers and researchers to test new ideas in an industrial environment. The successful concepts can then be translated to the Equipment Innovations team to address challenges such as furnace variations, glass property changes, and cooling-wind fluctuations.