Manufacturing Flexible Packaging

Introduction

Efficient and profitable delivery of quality flexible packaging to the marketplace requires the design and manufacture of products that are both “fit-for-use” and “fit-to-make.” The engineering function for a flexible packaging operation must design products and processes that deal with both challenges. The alternative finds the company facing a stalemate in which “Manufacturing can’t make what Sales can sell” and “Sales can’t sell what Manufacturing can make.”

The scope of engineering knowledge inherent in designing “fit-for-use” and “fit-to-make” products is broad:

• Chemical engineering and chemistry: underlying principles of the resins, adhesives, inks, etc., that serve as the raw materials for the industry’s products and of ...