Development of a database to support sustainable packaging design

Wong, John Huang Ung (2015) Development of a database to support sustainable packaging design. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Packaging mainly serves to protect the product and ensure safe delivery to the customer‟s hand. However, manufacturer focuses on the product creation and therefore the packaging is often neglected. Packaging is developed at the last stage of the product creation and development thus cost and time are limited. With the limitations, packaging designers are unable to fully explore the importance of the packaging towards environmental impact and manufacturers will not take their risk to move to sustainability development as it will increase intricacy to the process of packaging design with time consuming. The objective of this project is to review on the sustainable packaging design by researching on the importance and guidance towards sustainability in electronic products. From the study, it was found the creation of a database for sustainable packaging design is useful for designers and engineers to explore ways to reduce environmental impact and ecological foot print. A database was be created using MySQL for information storing and Java as a programming language. The database will require user to provide input specifications based on their product and the database will deliver suitable material choice with its sustainability. Survey will be taken with 50 respondents to test the usability and functionality. The result shows the database is effective in achieving its functional requirement, to select proper material with minimal environment impact. The database is also efficient in designing material and energy usage to its minimum level to increase efficiency of the packaging system. The database can be improved by forwarding the output with additional analysis based on the five life cycle phase to reduce environmental impact. The material database need to be broaden for variety of material and the database can be brought online for global user to use and provide feedbacks as well as improvement from time to time.

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