Make information technology more close to carton box design

With the strategic adjustments of the organizational structure adjustment, the carton designers were faced with more people and things; to get involved in the different industries or customer requirements, shorter design time, which contributed to the design work modularization and informational. Good processes and software that allows designers to work more with less effort, which makes the mettle of information technology in carton box design. However, to make the carton design informationized is not a simple thing can be solved with a few software. What need to be done to apply information technology in carton packaging design? How to meet the needs of the design work? This requires good management precipitates into to the software and make the design software work like life in motion in the design process.

Firstly, it is necessary to establish a database of design material and knowledge. Establish the design material library which could enrich the designer's knowledge, to stimulate more creative inspiration. Also the establishment of design knowledge or packaging knowledge database, allows the designer to understand the needs of customers implied, the production of packaging products, the advantages and disadvantages of the machine, etc., to make products designed to fully meet customer requirements. It needs to analyze the design needs material and knowledge, and to classify and organize. When necessary designers can discuss the knowledge and material can be applied to what the advantages and disadvantages. Therefore, the establishment of the library actually is the input of design work, the input of customer data, the input of design knowledge and skills.

Secondly, it is the the synergy of software and processes. When designers done the preliminary work, the carton packaging design work was really into the "Start" stage. We can imagine the design work is a closed loop process, from our understanding of knowledge and skills of the packaging manufacturer, customer research, and then to design a cardboard box, designed carton to show to customers, come back to volume manufacturing.The use of auxiliary software tools to complete such a process will have greatly improved the speed and quality of the carton packaging design.

There are lots of carton box sturctural design softwares available, such as box-vellem,artioscad,cimpack,impact,kasemake and Packmage CAD. The graphic design software includes AI, Photoshop etc., which is not enough, the carton companies can develop some auxiliary tools in their own production management information systems such as customer research data analysis system, carton compression design system, container stuffing computing systems to meet our design requirements.

First, we received a customer needs, research and analysis system based on customer research, data collection, as well as the site to find clients implicit demand to further improve customer research analysis system; the use of customer research analysis on the data collected analysis, compared to the manufacturing process requirements in cartons of various parameters of the customer's needs, the use of these basic data into the system with material with a material calculation, identify with materials that meet customer requirements. Selection of the appropriate structure and box simulation if it meets the requirements of customers. Then we can apply software in carton packaging design. Structural design and graphic design can be synchronized, also be carried out structural design and graphic design step by step. This can greatly improve the efficiency of the design staff, to save time.

In fact, carton structural design software mostly has 3D display features, like Packmage CAD, will easily be able to display carton box folding and modeling process. Through the 3D features of the software to allow customers to participate in the carton design process, which is also a very pleasant thing. Especially graphic design, print artwork and modify repeated very painful things; the final customer because there is no demonstration of 3D deviate from his intentions. Software-based cartons to show clients, and allows customers to a better understanding of their packaging needs.

Implementation of the construction of information technology in carton box business allows information sharing and coordination within the enterprise, it also enables customers to understand that he needs packaging is manufactured, the progress to date; as carton packaging manufacturers, it is difficult to fully understand the customer product specific sales, allowing customers to participate in the carton packaging design, will enable carton enterprises to embark on the road faster and better development because we make customers really need.