{"id":2738,"date":"2008-10-14T21:43:33","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T04:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Thinking-Inside-the-box\/ba-p\/333811"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:23:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:23:27","slug":"thinking-inside-the-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/thinking-inside-the-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking\u2026..\u00a0 Inside the box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><\/P><P>Who knew that creating a new spray bottle was so complicated!&nbsp; John Manderfield of <A href=\"http:\/\/www.cccllc.com\/\" title=\"Consolidated Container Company\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Consolidated Container Company<\/A>&nbsp; presented a case study of a trigger spray bottle design project at <A href=\"http:\/\/plm-europe.org\/\" title=\"Siemens PLM Europe 2008\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Siemens PLM Europe 2008<\/A> .<\/P><BR \/><BR \/><P>He shared some of the challenges on a project to develop two different sized trigger spray bottles to fit into the same box.&nbsp; The POP (Package Optimization Program)&nbsp; analyzes the dimensions of the shapes, and optimizes them for shipping purposes.<\/P><BR \/><BR \/><P>By changing the parameters in NX, they were able to come up with an optimal solution.<\/P><BR \/><BR \/><P>John was kind enough to share his presentation below.<\/P><BR \/><BR \/><DIV style=\"width:425px;text-align:left\" id=\"__ss_657053\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/dorasmith\/john-manderfield-using-nx-6-for-sustainable-packaging-presentation?type=powerpoint\" title=\"John Manderfield - Using NX 6 for Sustainable Packaging\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">John Manderfield &#8211; Using NX 6 for Sustainable Packaging<\/A><DIV style=\"font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px\">View SlideShare <A href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/dorasmith\/john-manderfield-using-nx-6-for-sustainable-packaging-presentation?type=powerpoint\" title=\"View John Manderfield - Using NX 6 for Sustainable Packaging on SlideShare\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">presentation<\/A> or <A href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/upload?type=powerpoint\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Upload<\/A> your own. (tags: <A href=\"http:\/\/slideshare.net\/tag\/plmeurope08\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">plmeurope08<\/A> <A href=\"http:\/\/slideshare.net\/tag\/siemensplm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">siemensplm<\/A>)<\/DIV><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew that creating a new spray bottle was so complicated!&nbsp; John Manderfield of Consolidated Container Company&nbsp; presented a case study of a trigger spray bottle design project at Siemens&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61891,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2739,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions\/2739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2738"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2738"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2738"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}