Rikutec is a German SME active in the blow molding of plastic containers. Its core business is the manufacture of large installations and the supply of complete turnkey facilities for blow-molded products. Rikutec’s customers are from the chemical and petrochemical foodstuffs and pharmaceutical sectors. In these sectors, ultra-clean containers are essential in the supply of high-purity chemicals. Rikutec needs more reliable and more efficient design methods to maintain and extend its leading market position with faster response times. Rikutec has already started to work with partners to evaluate the benefits of numerical simulation in blow molding. This work will be taken forward in this experiment, whose goal is to create a new simulation service that can be used by companies such as Rikutec to develop new products in a shorter time. Rikutec expects dedicated blow-molding simulation services on HPC systems, leading to lower costs, increased product quality, and more efficient development processes. Fraunhofer SCAI (Germany) is a non-profit R&D institute that provides expertise in software development. Hagen Stiftung and Hagen Engineering, both from Germany, are domain experts in plastic parts and blow-molded articles. Accuform is a Czech software manufacturer. One of their products is the process simulation software B-SIM. Gompute (Sweden) provided the HPC resources and expertise.

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