Bottero, a world leader in every sector of the glass industry: hollow glass, special engineering, flat- laminated- and monolithic glass, was among the winners of the 2013 HPC Innovation Excellence Awards.
Bottero Hollow Glass was among the winners of the 2013 HPC Innovation Excellence Awards, which recognize noteworthy achievements by users of High Performance Computing (HPC) technologies.
Bottero presented its advanced CFD tools and simulation techniques utilized to improve the design of E-MOC, the innovative new family of Mould Opening and Closing (MOC) mechanism for the hollow glass industry.
This complex project combined the innovation, in terms of mould movement (speed and precision), cooling system, maintenance facility (top mounted), and maintaining compatibility with previous standards. This multidimensional aspect led to hard space constraints, requiring complex 3D kinematic schema, and required advanced CFD simulation and design tools. A high performance level was required for this mechanism, particularly regarding clamping forces in closed positions, force available at the beginning of the mould stroke, reduced closing time, absence of vibrations during movement, and robustness with respect to irregularities in air supply.
For over 50 years, Bottero has been a world leader in every sector of the glass industry: hollow glass, special engineering, flat- laminated- and monolithic glass.