Feature List - Modules

Software Module Features

Lane Risk

Thermal Packaging

Lane Profiles

Data Tools

Performance Curve

Dry Ice

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  DESCRIPTION

• Lane Risk

  Quantify the risk of temperature excursion for a specific packaging on a specific lane.
  Include any packaging solution on the market.
  Assess any transportation lane worldwide.

• Accelerate PQ / OQ

  Traditional qualification processes rely on time-demanding lab testing and test shipments.
  Lane risk assessments based on computer simulation provides results in a matter of hours.
  New insights from lane risk assessment can cut PQ and OQ times by weeks.

• Ocean Risks

  Determine the payload vulnerability to planned and unplanned power-offs in ocean containers.
  Quantify how long a container can be powered off until a temperature excursion occurs.

• Port Power Offs

  Determine the maximum sustainable power-off time for any port worldwide.
  Include solar irradiation and local temperature conditions at any port.

• Truck Risk

  Determine the payload temperature in controlled and uncontrolled trucks.
  Determine time schedule for truck arrival and departure.

• Total Cost of Ownership

  Compare different packaging and transportation options by TCO analysis.
  Determine the most cost effective solution on the market for your specific requirements.
  Find the best combination of shipper solution and logistics service level.

• Seasonal Packaging

  Determine the best time point to switch between seasonal packaging options.
  Compare seasonal packages with single-packout all season solutions.

• Stability Budget

  Include product stability data in lane risk assessment.

• Lane Profiles

  Download lane specific temperature data from global weather station networks.
  If available, logger data from previous shipments can be included in the analysis.

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  DESCRIPTION

• Packaging Design

  Find the optimal combination of materials and layout for your design.
  Optimize the packout: no underprotection, no overengineering.
  Design at any scale: from small payload vials, passive insulated boxes, pallet shippers, to ocean containers - everything is possible.

• Performance Testing

  Determine the payload temperature inside any packaging for any temperature profile in a matter of minutes, instead of hours of testing.
  Check the thermal performance in your individual setups.

• Rapid Prototyping

  Test the integrated performance for different insulation materials.
  Build and test digital prototypes in a matter of minutes instead of expensive lab testing.

• Robustness of Design

  Check the robustness of your design.
  Explore the influence of production tolerances.
  Determine the critical components of your design. 

• Component Design

  Design cool packs with PCMs and covers, VIPs, and many more.

• Materials Explorer

  Explore the thermal behaviour of EPS, PCMs, dry ice, ...

• Dry Ice

  Determine required amount of dry ice and refill intervals.

• PCM Preconditioning

  Determine optimum time, layout, and temperature profile to achieve best preconditioning results.

• Solar Irradiation

  Few lab tests include the effect of solar irradiation. This is easily done in Thermal Packaging simulation.
  In practice, solar irradiation is a critical factor in situations where the packaging is exposed to the sun, like on tarmac.

• Thermal Covers

  Study the benefits of different thermal covers for your pallet shippers.

• Active Container

  Simulate active containers by including air exchange rates.
  Estimate required energy consumption to maintain payload temperature.

• Ocean Container

  Simulate ocean containers: dry container, reefer container, 10', 20', 40', ...

• Payload Temperature

  Any payload temperature label range is possible: 2-8°C, CRT 15-25°C, frozen, - 80°C deep frozen, cryo, ...

• Ambient Conditions

  Define any ambient temperature profile like ISTA, European summer, North American winter.
  Include solar irradiation, infrared irradiation on tarmac, wind conditions during truck transportation or in climate chamber environments.

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  DESCRIPTION

• Weather Stations

  Download lane specific temperature data from global weather station networks.
  If available, logger data from previous shipments can be included in the analysis.

• Digital Lanes

  Connect locations and assign travel times to define global shipping lanes that can be used for lane risk assessment.
  Include intervals of storage at controlled temperature.

• Historical Data

  Download hourly lane-specific historical temperature data from thousands of weather stations worldwide.
  Typically about 10 years of historical data are available.

• Forecast Data

  Download hourly lane-specific forecast temperature data from thousands of weather stations worldwide.
  Typically 7 days of forecast data are available.

• Solar Irradiation

  Determine the solar irradiation on any point on the globe.
  Estimate the heat flux on packages exposed to sunlight.

• Data Interfaces

  Import data from temperature loggers for statistical analysis.
  Import data from other software sources, for example Validaide.
  Export temperature data to common file formats, like xlsx or csv.

• Data Analysis

  Statistical analysis of temperature data.
  Filtering temperature data by worst cases, dates, and temperature ranges.
  Determine lane-specific temperature proxies based on statistical percentiles as reference profiles.

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  DESCRIPTION

• Digitize Lines

  Digitize graphical data from pdfs or images and export to Thermal Packaging or Excel.
  Pick data by color or manually.

• Compare Profiles

  Compare timeseries from different sources.
  Overlay computer simulation results and experimental data.
  Import data from Thermal Packaging, Batch Jobs, or other file formats like Excel.

• Resample Data

  Resample timeseries.
  Apply equidistant time spacing to create equally spaced data.
  Linearize data to reduce number of data points.

• Define Reference

  Quickly prepare graphical data to import as background for plot overlays.

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  DESCRIPTION

• Thermal Fingerprint

  Characterize shipper system performance for constant ambient temperatures. 
  Determine time to payload failure. 

• Independent Comparison

  Compare the performance of different shipper systems.

• Ambient Conditions

  Solar irradiation, infrared irradiation on tarmac, wind conditions during
  truck transportation or in climate chamber environments.

• Lane Agnostic

  Performance curves can be determined when no lane information is available. 
  Compare shipper performance independent of lane.

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  DESCRIPTION

• Dry Ice Shipper Design

  Build digital twins of dry ice shippers and explore their performance under various ambient conditions.

• Shipper Configuration

  Choose between four pre-specified, common shipping configurations. Custom configurations are also possible.

• Supercooling Effects

  Perform root-cause analysis for logged temperatures below the dry ice sublimation point.

• Optimal Payload Position

  Determine the optimal payload position to maximize its lifetime.

• Dry Ice Type

  Discover how the selection of pellets or blocks can affect the capabilities of your dry ice solution.

• Refilling Dry Ice

  Calculate the remaining dry ice mass and coordinate re-icing at transit points.

• Lab vs Field

  Investigate how the dry ice shipper behavior can differ depending on the surrounding setup.

• Analyze Results

  Analyze temperatures, dry ice mass, sublimation rate and CO2 concentration for each simulated case.