Design for packaging machinery
Bottle Design and Capping Compatibility: A Design Review
Review bottle neck drawings, body handling references, closure interfaces and sample ownership before a capping compatibility trial.
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Design for packaging machinery
Reserve room for the machine to handle the pack.
The brief
A package drawing has to accommodate the material that enters the machine, the gripping or guiding surface and the package that leaves it. Capacity, appearance and machine access compete for space. Resolve those relationships with representative samples before freezing graphics or tooling.
At the review table
Use the pouch-sizing article to distinguish nominal dimensions from usable fill space. The bottle review addresses neck drawings and handling datums before capping. Both provide a design brief that records unknowns instead of quietly turning them into assumed dimensions.
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Design for packaging machinery
Stand-Up Pouch Sizing: Capacity, Grip and Seal Areas
Size a stand-up pouch through actual product and filling trials, with separate records for nominal dimensions, grip areas, attachments and top sealing space.
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