THE DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE OF INDIVIDUALISED PERFECT-FIT PACKAGING SOLUTIONS

DS 80-4 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 15) Vol 4: Design for X, Design to X, Milan, Italy, 27-30.07.15

Year: 2015
Editor: Christian Weber, Stephan Husung, Marco Cantamessa, Gaetano Cascini, Dorian Marjanovic, Serena Graziosi
Author: Dhokia, Vimal; Newman, Stephen Thomas
Series: ICED
Institution: University of Bath, United Kingdom
Section: Design for X, Design to X
Page(s): 021-030
ISBN: 978-1-904670-67-4
ISSN: 2220-4334

Abstract

With continuing growth in the personalised high value product manufacturing sector, there is a need to provide new ways to store and transport high value parts economically in small batches/batches of one without damage and contamination, providing complete environment buffering. Current methods have an inability to design and generate on demand-individualised packaging as individual unique moulds are required. This paper provides a new approach to packaging individualised components and artefacts through combining a scanning methodology, and computational design methods to generate cryogenically machined packaging solutions using a computer aided design and manufacturing system. A prototype is used to demonstrate the proposed method and is validated by two example case studies consisting of a high value component and a representative artefact example.

Keywords: Individualised Packaging, Design Engineering, Technology

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