Cool Pak LLC
SUCCESS METRICS
- Cut development cycles by 75 percent
- Moved from design to prototype mold in a single week
- Reduced waste throughout customer supply chains by over 35 percent
- Built an internal design capability
The Challenge
As a key supplier of packaging to growers, shippers, repackers, and other food suppliers, Cool Pak LLC designs and manufactures a variety of trays, tills, tubs, clamshells, and domed containers that are used to package, transport, and sell fresh produce. Recently, company growth and increasing customer demand for innovative and environmentally friendly packaging solutions prompted management to transition its design function in-house.
The Solution
Cool Pak chose SolidWorks® design software because it is easy to use, facilitates mold development, and is fully integrated with the Gold Partner-Certified CAMWorks® machining system, which the company uses to run its CNC equipment to create tooling. By implementing SolidWorks, Cool Pak cut its development cycles by 75 percent, moved from design to prototype mold in a single week, reduced waste throughout its customers’ supply chains by over 35 percent, and built its own internal design capability.
Previous CAD: None
Products(s) Used: SolidWorks Standard
Benefit: Collaboration, Ease of Use
VAR: Hawk Ridge Systems
