JP2707629B2 - Cardboard design system for integrated packaging - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a system capable of automatically designing corrugated cardboard for integrated packaging satisfying various conditions.

[Prior art] Conventionally, the design of corrugated cardboard for integrated packaging for storing various types of contents has been carried out in consideration of various conditions such as the dimensions, weight, and stacking of the contents, and specialized design expertise has been accumulated. The house is doing it on paper, using real goods based on their own experience. In other words, in this case, the requirements for determining the dimensions include the dimensions of the contents, the presence or absence of a partition, the material, the swelling of the contents, etc. The requirements for determining the materials include the weight of the contents, the stacking stage, and the contents. There is a necessary strength due to things.

[Problem to be Solved by the Invention] However, such a conventional manual design of a cardboard has the following various problems. That is, since the design is first performed manually, it takes a very long design time. Also, only experts with a wealth of design experience can make designs. further,
If there is no actual product, designing cannot be performed, in other words, designing cannot be performed in parallel with the product planning stage. Furthermore, once a product is designed, the cost of distribution increases depending on the distribution conditions (depending on the customer) such as subsequent transportation and storage, and the design must be redone. In other words, there is no design that optimizes distribution costs in consideration of distribution conditions.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-described problems, and while significantly reducing the design time, it is easy for anyone, even if there is no actual product and not a specialist, It is an object of the present invention to provide an integrated packaging cardboard design system capable of designing an optimal cardboard at low cost in total.

Means for Solving the Problems In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, there are provided input means for inputting at least customer information, content item condition information, and information on the number of stored content items, and customer information and content. Storage means for storing article condition information and, if necessary, distribution condition information as a database; display means; and customer information and content item condition information stored in the storage means according to input information from the input means. , And if necessary, search logistics condition information, determine the number of arrays, determine the strength, determine the material, and infer the optimal design values based on these search results and the determined results, and the design results An arithmetic processing means having a function of displaying the result on the display means, and a function of performing a desired simulation on the obtained design result and displaying the result on the display means, if necessary, Output means for outputting a design result obtained by the arithmetic processing means and a simulation result as required.

[Operation] Accordingly, in the integrated packaging cardboard design system of the present invention, customer information, content item condition information,
When information on the number of stored contents is input, retrieval and arrangement of customer information, content item condition information, and, if necessary, distribution condition information stored in the storage means as a database in accordance with the input information. The number, strength, and material are determined. Further, an optimal design value is inferred based on the search result and the determination result, and the design result is displayed on the image display means. A desired simulation is performed on the designed result, and the result is displayed on the image display means. Then, the design result obtained as described above and the simulation result as required are output by the output means.

Embodiment An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of a corrugated cardboard design system for integrated packaging according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the system according to the present embodiment includes an interactive input means 1 such as a keyboard and a mouse, a storage means 2 such as a magnetic disk device, a display means 3 such as a color display, and a personal computer. And an output means 5 such as a printer device.

Here, the input means 1 inputs customer information, content item condition information, and information on the number of stored content items.
The storage means 2 stores customer information, content item condition information, distribution condition information, various JIS standard information, and other information as a database. in this case,
The customer information is, for example, customer, product name, manufacturing factory, filling method, box format, and the like. The content item condition information is, for example, an inner container, a content, a shape, a dimension, a weight, a capacity, and the like. Further, information on the number of stored contents is, for example, the number of stored items,
An accumulation method, an accumulation unit, and the like. Still further, the distribution condition information differs depending on the customer, and includes, for example, storage period, safety factor, pallet size and weight, stacking height, stacking number, stacking method, transport means, carrier size, and the like.

On the other hand, the arithmetic processing means 4 has a database search function for searching for customer information, content item condition information, and distribution condition information stored in the storage means 3 in accordance with the input information from the input means 1 and a number of arrays. The number of arrays to be determined, the strength determining function for determining strength, the material determining function for determining the material, the optimum design value is inferred based on the search results and the determination results, and the design result is displayed on the display means 3. It has an optimum design value inference function and a function of performing a desired simulation on the obtained design result and displaying the result on the display means 3.

Further, the output unit 5 outputs the design result and the simulation result obtained by the arithmetic processing unit 4.

Next, the operation of the integrated packaging cardboard design system configured as described above will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

First, when customer information is input from the input means 1, first, the customer information stored as a database in the storage means 2 is searched by the arithmetic processing means 4 in accordance with the input information, and is displayed on the display means 3. You. For example, the search and display are as follows: customer: A drink, product name: orange juice, manufacturing plant: liquid paper container factory, filling method: wrap round, box type: wrap round.

Next, when content item condition information is input from the input means 1, the content processing condition information stored as a database in the storage means 2 is searched by the arithmetic processing means 4 in accordance with the input information, and is displayed on the display means 3. Is displayed. For example, inner container ... glass bottle, the contents goods ... standard container, contents ... liquid, shape ... juice bottles 500 ml, dimensions ... outer diameter P _1, P ₂ (72.0m
m), height 3 ₃ (251.0mm), weight… 983.0g, capacity… 500ml, etc.

Next, when information on the number of stored contents is input from the input unit 1, the number of stored items, the stacking method, and the stacking unit are displayed on the display unit 3. For example, the storage number is displayed as 24, the stacking method is not stackable, the stacking unit is 1 × 1 × 1, and so on.

Next, the distribution condition information corresponding to the customer input as described above is retrieved from the storage means 2 by the arithmetic processing means 4, and then the final design condition confirmation information is displayed on the display means 3. That is, for example, customer information, customer ... A drink, product name ... orange juice, factory name ... liquid paper container factory, inner container ... glass bottle, beer bottle 500ml, line name ...
Wrap round, outer box format ... Wrap round, flute A, etc., and the specification information is content item: storage direction
P ₁ × P ₂ , stacking / impossible, accumulation / impossible, accessories ...
Further information on logistics conditions, such as partition, material, B flute, etc., has storage period: 3 to 6 months, safety factor: 1.50, pallet: dimensions: 900 x 1100mm, weight: 28.7kg, stacking height: 13
50mm, number of stacks ... 2, stacking method ... no designation, transportation means ...
11t truck, bed size ... 9200 × 2330 × 2300mm are displayed collectively.

Next, in the case where the design may be performed based on the above design conditions, an instruction to that effect is input through the input means 1 so that the optimal design value based on the design conditions is inferred by the arithmetic processing means 4. The design result is displayed on the display means 3. For example, the optimal design values including the number of stored items, the outer box inner dimensions, accessories, box material (flute, material, JIS code) and the like are displayed on the display means 3 as shown in FIG. If it is desired to change a part of the above-mentioned design conditions to perform the design, an instruction to that effect is input through the input means 1 so that the optimal design value based on the design conditions is calculated. And the design result is displayed on the display means 3 in the same manner.

Next, when a simulation is desired to be performed on the above-described design result, a plurality of simulation items are displayed on the display unit 3 by inputting an instruction to that effect through the input unit 1. For example, the display means 3 displays a proportion simulation, a stowage simulation, a transportation efficiency simulation (discrete), a transportation efficiency simulation (unit), and the like. If, for example, a proportion simulation is to be performed, the user inputs an instruction to that effect through the input means 1 and the simulation is performed by the arithmetic processing means 4. The result is shown in, for example, FIG. , Side view, plan view, projection view, and internal dimensions are displayed on the display means 3. In the above, for example, when it is desired to perform a stowage simulation, by inputting an instruction to that effect through the input means 1, the simulation is performed by the arithmetic processing means 4. Number of stowage: 5 pieces, Stowage dimensions: 74
6.0 × 921.0mm, stack height… 1330.0mm, area efficiency …… 70.9
%, Volume efficiency: 69.8%, weight per pallet: 618.5k
g, stowage method: brickwork is displayed on the display means 3, and a plan view in that case is displayed on the display means 3 as shown in FIG. Further above,
For example, when it is desired to perform a transportation efficiency simulation (loose), the user inputs an instruction to that effect through the input unit 1 and the simulation is performed by the arithmetic processing unit 4. Total number: 466 pieces, stowage quantity: 149 pieces, stowage dimensions ...
2299.0 × 9140.0mm, number of stacks: 3 + 19, stack height: 10
64.0mm, area efficiency: 97.5%, volumetric efficiency: 35.3%, total loading weight: 10993.9kg, stowage method: brickwork, etc., are displayed on the display means 3, and upon request, as shown in FIG. The plan view in that case is displayed on the display means 3.
Furthermore, when it is desired to perform a transportation efficiency simulation (unit), the simulation is performed by the arithmetic processing unit 4 by inputting an instruction to that effect through the input unit 1 and the result is, for example, the transportation unit. ... 11t truck, loading pallet ... 17 sheets,
Stacking pallets: 20 sheets, stacking dimensions: 9000.0 x 2200.0 mm, number of stacks: 0 + 17 sheets, stack height: 1330.0 mm, area efficiency: 9
2.4%, volumetric efficiency: 45.4%, total loading weight: 10514.7 kg, stowage method: block loading, etc., are displayed on the display means 3, and upon request, a plan view as shown in FIG. It is displayed on the display means 3. Finally, the design result and the simulation result obtained in this way are appropriately output by the output means 5.

As described above, in the integrated packaging cardboard design system of the present embodiment, since the customer information, the contents condition information, and the distribution condition information are stored in a database, the design is extremely short, unlike the conventional manual design. It becomes possible to design a corrugated cardboard for integrated packaging in a design time.
Also, since it is only necessary to provide customer information, content item condition information, and information on the number of stored content items, it is easy for a person who has little design experience as well as an expert with abundant design experience to design easily. It becomes possible. Furthermore, in the past, it was not possible to design without physical goods, but with this system it is possible to design without physical goods, in other words, it is possible to design in parallel with the number of product stages The design time can be further reduced. Furthermore, in the past, once designed, the logistics cost increased depending on the subsequent logistics conditions such as transportation and storage, and the design had to be redone. However, this system considers even the logistics conditions. Therefore, it is possible to design an optimal corrugated board at a low cost in total.

Note that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment.

For example, it goes without saying that the customer information, content item condition information, and distribution condition information in the above embodiment are not limited to those described above.

Further, in the above embodiment, the printer was used as the output means, and the processing result of the arithmetic processing means 4 was simply output.
For example, the processing suspension in the arithmetic processing means 4 may be CAD
The information may be transferred to a system (cutter, plotter, etc.) as information to a subsequent process.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, according to the present invention, the design time can be significantly shortened, and even if there is no actual product and even if it is not a specialist, it is easy for anyone, and the total cost is optimally low. An integrated packaging cardboard design system capable of designing cardboard can be provided.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a cardboard designing system for integrated packaging according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the embodiment, and FIGS. 3 to 7 are the same embodiment. It is a figure for explaining an operation in. 1 ... input means, 2 ... storage means, 3 ... display means, 4
... arithmetic processing means, 5 ... output means.

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Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] Claims 1. At least customer information, content item condition information,
Input means for inputting information on the number of stored contents and content items; storage means for storing customer information and content item condition information as a database; display means; and the storage means in response to input information from the input means. Search for stored customer information and content item condition information,
Arithmetic processing means having the function of determining the number of arrays, determining the strength, determining the material, inferring the optimum design value based on these search results and the determination results, and displaying the design results on the display means And an output means for outputting the design result obtained by the arithmetic processing means. A corrugated cardboard design system for integrated packaging, comprising: 2. At least customer information, content item condition information,
Input means for inputting information on the number of stored contents and contents; storage means for storing customer information, contents condition information, and distribution condition information as a database; display means; Retrieving customer information, contents condition information, and distribution condition information stored in the storage means, determining the number of arrays, determining strength,
The function of determining the material, inferring the optimal design value based on these search results and the determined result, and displaying the design result on the display means, and performing a desired simulation on the obtained design result An arithmetic processing means having a function of displaying the result on the display means, and an output means for outputting a design result and a simulation result obtained by the arithmetic processing means, a corrugated cardboard for integrated packaging, characterized by comprising: Design system.