Ashish Darekar

SmartCAE Stefan Braun

SmartCAE is a leading company in the field of the Virtual Cold Chain. Our software helps packaging providers to rapidly prototype new, and analyze existing, packaging designs, reducing the number of expensive cold chamber tests to a minimum. Logistics Companies get realistic estimates of expected lane temperature conditions. Pharma Companies determine the risk for thermal excursions on global distribution lanes and minimize the total costs of ownership. It can simulate the risk for thousands of realistic temperature scenarios for any packaging design and any lane, including thermal radiation from the sun or hot tarmac surfaces. Our approach has opened up a whole new perspective in the field of temperature controlled logistics, which has not been possible in yesterday land, based on physical tests alone. It is now possible to acquire estimates of thermal lane risk in a matter of hours, compared to traditional lab and field tests that had required weeks and months of costly test shipments with limited statistical relevance. This is our way to help companies improve their cold chain processes, and thus minimize time to market, limit unnecessary waste, and reduce the billions of dollars lost in the cold chain due to temperature excursions.