Case Study: Vitro achieves 30% faster development and up to 30% less scrap with SOLIDWORKS

Advancing Cosmetic Bottle Development With Solidworks Design Solutions

Vitro, S.A.B. de C.V. (Vitro), a leading glass manufacturer whose Toluca Cosmos Plant focuses on cosmetic and fragrance bottles, needed to improve its ability to model, visualize, and communicate innovative bottle concepts while shortening time-to-market and streamlining mold production. To replace limiting 2D tools, Vitro evaluated CAD packages and chose SOLIDWORKS Professional design software from SolidWorks for its surface modeling, mold-development, and visualization capabilities.

Using SolidWorks’ SOLIDWORKS Professional (with PhotoView 360 and eDrawings), Vitro accelerated product development and mold design, cutting design cycles by 30% and reducing scrap and rework by 20–30%. The solution enabled production of more complex, organic shapes (for example, an asymmetrical Hello Kitty ribbon perfume bottle), improved customer visualization and approvals, and streamlined communication and tooling development.

Vitro

Miguel Ortiz

New Product Development Manager