Stora Enso Packaging, the producer of corrugated board sheets and packaging, now has an enhanced product design and completion process following its investment in ArtiosCAD Enterprise from Esko.
‘ArtiosCAD Enterprise allows all authorised parties involved in the design of a product to access up-to-the minute information and share their input in real time for more efficient approvals and faster time to market,’ commented Andis Skujenieks, Baltics sales and marketing manager. ‘As a result, we can handle a greater number of jobs and complete them more cost efficiently.’
The software has been installed at the company’s sheet converting plants in Riga, Tallin and Kaunas; in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania respectively.
With ArtiosCAD Enterprise, all assets are centralised in a secure web-accessible database hosted in a private corporate cloud. This enables online collaboration among design groups, CAD and graphic designers, suppliers, brand owners and production, in fact, across the entire packaging supply chain.
It features an online dashboard for real time feedback on project status, task lists and other parameters. An embedded design browser lets users search production die designs. Global and template-based project and document auto-numbering and naming allows the organisation to name each asset, maintaining file and project integrity.
Peter Ogden, business development manager, explained, ‘The overriding benefit of ArtiosCAD Enterprise is its ability to enable faster sharing of information that reduces errors, hastens the approval process and significantly reduces lead times.
‘Before Stora Enso Packaging made the investment in ArtiosCAD Enterprise, each job would go through a linear approval process with every stakeholder. This potentially added weeks to the time from concept to completion. Now everyone involved can access the project immediately. They can even invite other interested and authorised parties such as graphic suppliers or diemakers to benefit from their expertise. Each and every action in the system, including the viewing of files or other assets, is recorded for the ultimate in reportability.’
Mr Ogden continued, ‘ArtiosCAD Enterprise can enable sales teams to be more responsive by allowing them to immediately upload information using tablets, phones or laptops reflecting the latest customer input. They can add photos and other content that can instantly be sent to a designer who can then start work within minutes as opposed to the days it may have taken before. Realistically, the designer could send the customer a virtual mock up that same day. In a highly competitive marketplace where time to market is critical, the benefit of these capabilities is immeasurable.’
