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Case Carnaud Metalbox Featured

The solution

Car­naud­Met­al­Box suc­cess­ful­ly mod­ern­ized its engi­neer­ing doc­u­men­ta­tion work­flow, improv­ing effi­cien­cy in equip­ment main­te­nance, man­u­fac­tur­ing opti­miza­tion, and ser­vice sup­port. GTX solu­tions helped the com­pa­ny future-proof its tech­ni­cal archives, rein­forc­ing its posi­tion as an indus­try leader in pack­ag­ing innovation.

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Car­naud­Met­al­box: Improv­ing pack­ag­ing pro­duc­tion efficiency

Car­naud­Met­al­box, a lead­ing pack­ag­ing man­u­fac­tur­er, required bet­ter doc­u­ment man­age­ment for 25,000+ mechan­i­cal draw­ings. GTXRaster­CAD® intro­duced hybrid edit­ing, auto­mat­ed raster enhance­ments, and stan­dard­ized title blocks, enabling faster mod­i­fi­ca­tions and improved work­flow integration.

Car­naud­Met­al­Box Clo­sures UK, part of the Crown Cork and Seal Com­pa­ny, oper­ates one of Europe’s lead­ing pack­ag­ing plants. With a dai­ly pro­duc­tion of 5 – 7 mil­lion caps, their facil­i­ty in Poole, UK relies on advanced engi­neer­ing machin­ery to man­u­fac­ture high-vol­ume screw-top clo­sures for food and bev­er­age con­tain­ers. Man­ag­ing over 25,000 mechan­i­cal draw­ings, the com­pa­ny required an effi­cient dig­i­tal archiv­ing and edit­ing sys­tem to stream­line design updates and equip­ment modifications.

Chal­lenge

Car­naud­Met­al­Box faced chal­lenges in main­tain­ing thou­sands of tech­ni­cal draw­ings, many of which were paper-based and man­u­al­ly updated.

  • Engi­neers need­ed a way to effi­cient­ly update machin­ery schemat­ics as pro­duc­tion equip­ment was fre­quent­ly retooled and modified.
  • Paper draw­ings made retrieval slow and mod­i­fi­ca­tions labor-intensive.
  • A scal­able dig­i­tal archiv­ing solu­tion was nec­es­sary to ensure all draw­ings remained acces­si­ble and up to date.

Solu­tion

Car­naud­Met­al­Box dig­i­tized all 25,000 draw­ings, stor­ing them in elec­tron­ic archives for fast retrieval.

  • Engi­neers lever­aged GTXRaster­CAD® hybrid raster and vec­tor edit­ing tools, allow­ing seam­less mod­i­fi­ca­tions with­out full vec­tor conversion.
  • Raster draw­ings were image-enhanced, cleaned, cropped, and cor­rect­ed using GTX’s intel­li­gent edit­ing tools.
  • The raster title block and bor­der were replaced with CAD-based ver­sions, ensur­ing con­sis­ten­cy across documents.
  • Updat­ed draw­ings were made acces­si­ble via net­worked view­ing sta­tions and HP Design­Jet plot­ters, sim­pli­fy­ing collaboration.

Result

By adopt­ing GTX tech­nol­o­gy, Car­naud­Met­al­Box achieved:

  • Faster draw­ing mod­i­fi­ca­tions — elim­i­nat­ing man­u­al redrafting.
  • Improved acces­si­bil­i­ty, allow­ing engi­neers to view and update schemat­ics across mul­ti­ple departments.
  • Seam­less Auto­CAD® inte­gra­tion, ensur­ing engi­neer­ing work­flows remained efficient.
  • Enhanced ser­vice deliv­ery to key depart­ments, includ­ing the Tool room and Spares pur­chas­ing divisions.

“The capa­bil­i­ty that the GTX prod­ucts give us to keep our scanned draw­ings up to date will ensure that GTXRaster­CAD® remains a fun­da­men­tal part of our new sys­tems.”
- Geoff Dixon, System’s man­ag­er Carnaud