In our other article about sustainability, we have introduced recycled sand application in the casting industry.
Following the previous articles about recycled packaging, we will continue to talk about the other three principles for designing reusable packaging.
Cost Principle:
Ensure the leanness of unitized packaging and improve the loading rate. On the premise of ensuring product quality, store the maximum quantity in the smallest space; but it must be within the payload of the unitized package to ensure the service life; continuous improvement to reduce costs, eliminate waste, avoid excessive packaging, and ensure spare parts.
The total logistics cost from the supplier to the factory is the lowest; recyclable packaging should be used as much as possible, and the packaging materials should be degradable or reused; the packaging should be conducive to standardizing logistics operations and reducing management costs, and it is easy to purchase and the price is low.
Ergonomic principles:
Unitized packaging should be easy for employees to operate to ensure the rationality of parts packaging in the handling process; the design should be able to reduce the labour intensity of operators in each link, and the packaging for manual handling should not exceed 15 kg; it is convenient for assembly line operators to load and unload parts to ensure the production line. Minimize supply and pick-up man-hours;
While ensuring that transportation costs are minimized, space efficiency should be improved to meet first-in, first-out requirements, reducing inventory and flexible production requirements; the direction of stacking parts in packaging equipment should be as consistent as possible with the direction of parts on the assembly line to reduce employee stress. Non-value-added operation; the box wall in the direction of picking up the metal box is made into a flap-type, which makes the picking up more convenient.
Environmental protection and low carbon principles:
The packaging uses recyclable materials as much as possible to reduce the use of disposable materials. Packaging materials should comply with the national 3C and other relevant regulations and standards should be non-toxic, not release toxic and harmful substances, and be degradable or reusable, without causing damage to the environment and personnel.
When designing the packaging for long-distance transportation, factors such as safety, quality, cost, standardization and ergonomics are considered in order of priority. To minimise shipping costs, a mid-way change of packaging is allowed.
When designing packaging for short-distance transportation, factors such as safety, quality, standardization, ergonomics and cost are considered in order of priority from high to low. Except for sorting parts and KD parts, in principle, no conversion of packaging is allowed.
At the same time, when designing unitized packaging, labels in packaging forms such as inner packaging, outer packaging, and combination packaging should also be considered and should be specified in the packaging design.
In addition, different auto OEMs or parts companies still follow other principles based on their own development requirements, such as packaging needs to meet automated operations, automated storage, handling and other series of requirements.
Post time: Jul-01-2022