Packaging Design and Manufacturing Software

Features and benefits:• The industry’s most powerful and only fully

integrated database, delivering maximum performance in virtually any network environment; including LANs, WANs and VPNs

• Supports SQL Server, My SQL, SQL Express, Oracle, and Oracle Express databases

• Maximum scope to streamline inefficient workflows through integration with enterprise wide business systems

• Interactive drawing toolset that enhances usability and boosts productivity

• Comprehensive libraries of reusable parametric designs for optimal drawing and sample turnaround; including Corrugated/FEFCO, Folding Carton/ECMA, and Point of Sale Displays

• Drag and drop design components, which reduce design time and add realism to virtual 3D samples

• Advanced 3D modelling and animation tools for fast prototyping and enhanced innovation in presentation

• Powerful and efficient layout and tooling design

• Automated die making features that combine speed, efficiency, and accuracy

• Comprehensive range of industry standard data interchange options for maximum interoperability with third party software applications and machinery

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Impact CAD/CAM is state-of-the-art

software created specifically for

companies involved in the design and

manufacture of packaging, point of

sale displays and die tooling.

Impact features the

packaging industry’s

most powerful tools

for structural design,

product development,

virtual 3D sampling and

die making.

Impact DesignerA fully customisable database lies at the heart of Impact’s versatility and power. Data storage

and retrieval is fast and efficient, simultaneously delivering detailed and meaningful feedback that

can be shared effectively between the departments of a company or across the plants of a

multi-location organisation.

Impact features a fully interactive drawing toolset, as well as a

wide range of reusable design components, which make the

creation of custom drawings much faster than with any other

packaging design software.

A large and comprehensive library of pre-programmed and

reusable design styles is included with Impact and facilitates fast

drawing and sample turnaround. The Impact standards library

includes corrugated/FEFCO, folding carton/ECMA, point of sale,

rigid paper composite and media wallet variations.

Impact’s automatic layout feature is capable of producing one

or multiple nesting patterns to perfectly meet the objectives of

maximum on-press efficiency and minimum material wastage.

This feature will keep track of material type and flute or grain

direction to ensure that any design added to a layout automatically

maintains the correct orientation.

Structural design is as much about experimentation, as it is about

imagination and Impact’s fully integrated 3D features enable users

to combine both equally effectively.

Enhancements to Impact’s 3D functionality mean that packaging

designers can now produce as close a simulation of the finished

product as is possible with today’s technologies. Characteristics

such as board textures, embossing, de-bossing, foils, varnish

areas, rule types and even Braille can be incorporated in any

packaging prototype.

The natural extension to seeing how a completed design looks

as a virtual 3D sample is to see how it assembles. Impact’s 3D

Animation feature enables users to create simple movies in just

minutes. Animating more complex, multi-part structures, such as

point of sale displays, takes that little bit longer, but is well worth

the effort because in the right hands the results are spectacular.

Advanced 3D modelling and animation tools for fast prototyping and enhanced innovation in presentation.

Interactive drawing toolset enhances usability and boosts productivity.

An unrivalled range of automated die making features written by industry specialists who know your business.

Impact DiemakerImpact Diemaker’s feature list is vast, but

the ability to create an unlimited number of

customer-specific tool settings is one of the

major reasons for Impact’s enduring appeal

amongst the world’s major die makers.

Impact’s master tool settings ensure maximum productivity and

guarantee quality control to enable die makers to easily and

repeatedly meet customer production expectations. As a result,

the process of turning a production layout into a finished die board

is fully automated, very fast and can include the simultaneous

positioning of stripping knives, balance knives, alignment notches,

mounting holes, gripper fingers and laser text.

Impact includes an extensive range of industry-standard machine

settings for the world’s leading presses, such as Bobst and

Sanwa. These settings are fully customisable and can be easily

modified to fall in line with local production preferences.

A powerful stripper feature incorporates sophisticated routines

to facilitate the fast and efficient design of male, female and front

edge stripper tooling. Single-click operation automatically locates

and replicates offset geometry for internal and external waste

areas and sends the resultant data to a pre-defined layer in the

Impact project.

An intelligent mix of automatic and manual control is applied to the

production of counter plates. Customisable parameters determine

the support of partial cuts, reverse cuts and creases, embossing,

tool angles and widths, treatment of periphery and chamfer, and

location of mounting pin holes.

Interoperability is assured through the inclusion of an extensive set

of industry-standard import and export data interchange formats,

as well as an extended range of machine drivers that enable

Impact users to effectively control virtually any machine type from

sample maker to rule bender, water jet to laser.

The success of Impact is largely due to the fact that it is built on an industry standard database-

driven platform. For many years this fully integrated environment has successfully provided

packaging manufacturers with company-wide access to a continually growing portfolio of drawings

and associated information.

As packaging companies expand, the need to extend this access

across multiple locations becomes increasingly desirable. Until

now, issues relating to poor network performance have made such

a configuration impractical.

By harnessing the latest in cloud-based technology, Impact

Enterprise provides the benefits and flexibility of an on-site

database, whilst facilitating the use of a common database

where designers can share drawings regardless of their

geographical location.

Impact Enterprise is integrated into the intuitive Impact Browser

and enables any authorised individual to perform enterprise-wide

drawing searches with ease. Re-using existing designs removes

the need to rework projects unnecessarily, saving valuable time

and money in the process.

Once a structural designer completes work on a project it

is simultaneously copied into the local database and a centralised

cloud database.

This secures the automatic backup of all projects and facilitates

the streamlined integration of Impact with web-based products

such as WEBcnx.

Impact Enterprise is powered by a series of dedicated services

which provide queuing, distribution, and deployment of items

across an enterprise. These services are designed to provide

optimum performance, scalability and fault tolerance, so if your

network is unavailable for any length of time they will automatically

kick-in the minute it is back up and running.

The centralised management of Impact settings significantly

reduces the amount of time design managers and administrators

spend on the deployment of new or modified settings. With Impact

Enterprise an administrator can easily maintain the consistency

of Impact settings across an entire organisation from a central

location, and in doing so facilitate the use of company-specific

symbols, drawing specifications, design standards, design

components and master tool settings. New or modified settings will

be simultaneously deployed to site databases to ensure that

the most up-to-date versions are always available to everyone

who needs them.

Impact EnterpriseCentralised support for multiple Impact databases across multiple locations

Features and benefits:• Integrated support for multiple site Impact

databases across an enterprise

• Enterprise wide project searching and browsing

• Automated and centralised management of Impact settings

• Automatic publishing of finished projects to a centralised database

• Site databases that ensure performance, reliability and tolerance to network outages

• Secure and reliable site-to-central communications

• Remote administration and support

• Multiple site support

Pre and Post-Sales Support & Services

ImplementationArden Software recognise that a well defined implementation plan

is a key ingredient to the successful installation. Therefore, we work

closely with our customers to make the process as painless

as possible.

TrainingArden Software specialises in training packaging professionals in the

use of Impact. Courses cover a wide range of industry-specific topics

and guarantee that trainees return to the workplace better equipped

to exploit Impact’s extensive capabilities, and fulfil the business

objectives of their employer.

Software Maintenance ContractsArden Software provides full cover for Impact through an optional

software maintenance contract (SMC). An Impact SMC includes a

range of entitlements, such as version upgrades and updates,

as well as discounts against the purchase of professional services

and consultancy.

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Consultancy & IntegrationMany users choose to integrate Impact with home

grown or third party business management systems

to achieve a best-practice environment, eliminate data

entry, guarantee quality of data, and optimise the return

on their investment. Arden Software has many years

of experience in delivering successful and seamless

integration with many external vendor business

management systems such as SAP, AS400, Witron

and Microsoft Dynamics AX.

Resellers worldwide

About Arden SoftwareAs a supplier of world class software solutions to the global packaging industry since 1988,

Arden Software has gained a reputation for developing open and innovative applications that bring value

to companies of all sizes.

A market leader in the creation of structural design, enterprise, workflow management and manufacturing

solutions, the company focuses exclusively on the delivery of software solutions that enable packaging

manufacturers and die makers to completely re-shape their pre- and post-production activities.

Whether your company is an independent or multi-national enterprise; involved in high volume or short

run production; work in folding carton board, corrugated or plastics; Arden Software has the solutions you

need to help differentiate your company from the competition.

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