Optimization in folding carton packaging design

Optimization in folding carton packaging design research, investigates the structural conclusions of the decisions, which are taken in designing step, thus underlines the design affection on the products. Therefore, while taking the lifecycle of the package as a base, it puts forward the outcomes of design which starts its life with a customer need. This mentioned outcomes have been categorized to make easy to follow and contains the strength of the package, the cost, the duration of emerging and the total volume which is going out to the environment. Exploring the results of the decisions which is made in the design step, seeing the affects of the topics by designers is highly important in taking the rightest judgement which benefits the converter and customer. Furthermore, the research supports the customer with a wider perspective which exhibits the possibilities and restrictions of the package. In order to be the base of the research, the expectation from the customer needs, the purposes which are aimed and the point of place of packages in industrial design is mentioned in the thesis. The terms which aforesaid in the corrugated cardboard, the materials which generates it and the categorized final design structures are mentioned. These design categories are explained in detailed way, including the using areas, using conditions and their processess with their noteworthy points in design. To discuss and interpret these mentioned results, a project is studied which is a package of six glasses. 24 different shaped boxes and 2 different inserts are specially designed for this set. These inserts are also made from 2 different corrugated cardboard materials which have seperate calipers. As a result, 60 designs are created and all their infromation have been written in an Excel document and the results are calculated from there. In order to compose this document a special package program called ArtiosCAD is used. The drawings of the designs are carried out with Kongsberg sample maker, and the samples have been tested in BCT machine to measure their strength. By using the drawings of the program again, pricings are imported by the criterias and standards of the Camis Ambalaj San. A.Ş. in work preperation department. By employing these information in Excel, comparisons and correlation graphics are built. In interpretation step, by benefiting the commons and differs of the packages the behaving of the corrugated cardboard in packages are examined. How to interpretate and how to behave in case the undesirable or unexpected consequences of a manufacturing and trasporting of a design are discoursed. Gained results are prepared as annotations which are specially arranged to be general to use in corrugated cardboard packages without being restricted in one project.