The future of packaging design is simple and intelligent (on)

First, the mainstream of future packaging design

Packaging design has entered the computer age. The traditional packaging design method has been unable to adapt to the highly competitive commodity economy due to its slow design and poor accuracy.

Today, the period from development to market entry of a new product is getting shorter and shorter, and the structure and form of packaging are increasingly diversified. Sometimes a product needs to be packaged in various forms to suit different regions and different consumer groups. There are different requirements from creativity, color, specifications, materials, and production methods. Therefore, in order to grasp market opportunities in a timely manner, it is necessary to quickly design packaging products needed by the market with advanced means. Packaging designers must also know the relevant packaging production process, how to choose materials, how to use modern packaging manufacturing equipment, such as prepress processing equipment, post-press processing equipment.

In short, the future of packaging design is more to use the existing packaging and product packaging patterns, to choose between, and a reasonable combination, rather than the traditional packaging design, start from scratch, start from scratch. Reference and combination are the mainstream of future packaging design. The appreciation of designers is the key to the success of packaging design.

Second, the packaging process tends to be simplified

Modern science and technology are used in the packaging field to make many packaging processes easier and more scientific and rational.

The packaging process mainly refers to the manufacturing process of the packaging process. The development of the packaging process is achieved through the development of related sciences. For example, the packaging molding process, the bonding process of the packaging, the printing process of the packaging, and the finishing process of the packaging all undergo a process of improvement. The molding process of packaging includes metal packaging, plastic packaging, paper packaging, and other composite packaging. Among them, in the past, plastic packaging, such as extrusion, hot pressing, stamping, etc., has been gradually used in the formation of paper packaging; past cardboard cardboard packaging convex (concave) molding is more difficult, and now has basically been resolved; plastic foam molding Technology has been widely used for foaming and forming of paper-type packaging products, so that paper packaging cannot be used for products that cannot be packaged in the past.

The packaging and printing treatment process is more scientific and applicable, and the packaging performance and effects have undergone significant changes. For example, waxing and laminating processes in the past for the surface treatment of packaging have gradually been replaced by surface gluing (spray-bonding), because the surface gloss of the wax is not good, and the single-sided film in the film is easy to make. Warp and deformation of the packaging products, and the use of double-sided lamination will bring difficulties to the cutting of subsequent processes.

The packaging and drying process has also been turned from ordinary heat drying to ultraviolet light curing, making the drying process more energy-efficient, fast, and reliable.

The packaging and printing process is more diversified. In particular, high-end merchandise packaging printing has adopted screen printing and four printing. There are also anti-counterfeiting packaging production processes, which have been turned from partial printing or production to integral large-area printing and production anti-counterfeiting.

Third, intelligent packaging machinery

The packaging machinery market is highly competitive. It is a fast-growing category of the packaging industry in China. Together with food machinery, it has become one of the ten categories of China's machinery industry.

The general trend of the development of packaging machinery: The current characteristics of packaging machinery tend to "three high" - high speed, high efficiency and high quality. The focus of development tends to be low energy consumption, light weight, compact structure, small footprint, high efficiency, appearance and environment adaptability, psychological needs of operators, and environmental protection requirements.

The development trend of foreign packaging machinery is: It embodies the advanced technology of modern advanced packaging machinery, especially the packaging machinery and equipment produced by science and technology and economically developed countries such as Europe, America and Japan. Its technology is accompanied by the development of science and technology and commodity economy. leading position. In recent years, on the one hand, in order to meet the diversified needs of modern commodity packaging, developed countries have developed multi-variety, low-volume general packaging technologies and equipment, while keeping pace with high-tech development, continuously applying advanced technologies, and developing and developing high-tech applications. Modern technology-specific packaging machinery. The new technologies applied include: Aerospace Industry Technology (Heat Pipe), Microelectronic Technology, Magnetic Technology, Information Processing Technology, Sensing Technology (Photonics and Chemistry), Laser Technology, Biotechnology and New Process Technology, New Mechanical components such as tapered synchronous toothed belt drives, new fiber optic materials, etc., tend to intelligentize a wide variety of packaging machinery.

The development trend of domestic packaging institutions is: on the basis of introduction, digestion, and absorption, there is a certain degree of innovation, and the technological content of products is also continuously improving. These packaging machinery products are being developed in the direction of electromechanical bonding, main and auxiliary equipment, and complete sets of connection. . There are some problems in the development of China's packaging machinery products, mainly how to face the competition of foreign companies and foreign-funded enterprises, how to improve the level of "threeizations" according to China's national conditions, achieve high-speed work, and diversify and increase the specifications of packaging products. Reliability and how to make food and pharmaceutical packaging machinery sterilized. Under the premise of improving the use performance and reliability of packaging machinery products, it will go toward electromechanical integration and control of computerization. Advanced design methods such as reliability design, optimization design, and computer-aided design are used to develop advanced machinery and components (parts), such as modular and modular, to improve the technological level of the product and the level of “three changes,” and to match the international quality system. In combination, vigorously develop various automatic detection technologies and equipments that are compatible with packaging machinery. At present, compared with advanced developed countries in terms of packaging machinery in China, there are gaps in certain processing technologies and certain components and some critical materials do not meet the requirements. Therefore, this aspect will be the future of packaging machinery in China. Focus on breakthroughs and solutions.

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