A study on CAD systems for food packaging

There are various computer-aided design (CAD) systems currently available in the market but mostly are general for common products. Especially for food packaging design, its features in the general CAD systems are limited and insufficient. In fact, the availability of CAD systems for such purpose is also scarce. Without having appropriate options, manufacturers relating to packaging businesses have to spend in high cost to purchase systems that are not really specific to their needs. Packaging design has its distinctive characteristics. Understanding this gap, the authors intend to develop a CAD system concentrating on food packaging dedicated for national small and medium enterprises. As an initial stage, the authors have done studies on aspects of CAD for product packaging, software for CAD system development, the CAD systems produced by Malaysians, data exchange methods, and the methodology of development applied as contained in this paper.

I. INTRODUCTION

Packaging of food products is essential to enable the packaged food product is produced, distributed, and sold to consumers. Selection of packaging materials, packaging designs, and graphic designs must be appropriate with the products, market segments to be explored and adopted the market system. Packaging to suit market needs ideally is accompanied with quality products, produced at competitive costs, followed by promotions, advertisements, and branding, so that the products can be received by consumers and are competitive in the market.