Rejecting “looks good but doesn't work” airplane drafts In FMCG and daily packaging design, many brands have stepped on a fatal pit: spend a lot of money on design companies to draw a very strong visual impact of the “shaped bottle”, the result of taking the drawings to the glass factory or injection molding factory sampling, but was told that “not enough release angle”, “stress concentration easy to explode the bottle”, and ultimately can only compromise and change the draft, resulting in the original stunning super symbols into mediocre goods. In the end, they can only compromise and change the draft, resulting in the original stunning super symbols into a mediocre stall goods. For professional bottle design team, do not consider the design of the mold landing, are hooligans.
Curse of Mechanics“ and Wall Thickness Equalization for Shaped Designs Unlike conventional cylindrical bottles, shaped glass bottles are extremely difficult to control the distribution of liquid glass when blowing into shape. If “wall thickness equalization” is not taken into account at the industrial design stage, it will lead to thin shoulders and excessive stress concentration at the bottom corners of the bottle. Over the past 15 years of designing bottle molds, Meilin Design has introduced high-precision 3D structural modeling and mechanical heat map analysis. At the drawing stage, we precisely calculate and optimize the curvature and thickness ratio of each R corner.
More than just aesthetics, it's a nemesis for package costs Through front-end engineering-level mechanical analysis, we not only ensured that the extremely complex shaped package could be perfectly demolded and put into production at 100%, but also accurately controlled the grammage weight for the brand. In the case of a leading high-end water brand, Meilin's team successfully compressed the cost of single-bottle packaging materials by 8% through fine-tuning of the bottle structure, while maintaining the original visual sense of volume, and at the same time reduced the loss rate of exploding bottles on the assembly line by 15%.
Summing up: the last mile of business realization A bottle industrial design that can really help a brand break through the red sea of homogenization must be a perfect marriage of “top visual aesthetics” and “rigorous mold engineering”. Finding an organization that understands craftsmanship is the only way to make your super symbol grab the C position on the shelf as fast as possible.
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