包装効率の改善とシミュレーションソフトウエア

摘要

今日のIT技術の進歩と情報インフラの普及には目覚ましいものがある。消費者は，家電から食品衣類，雑貨などの日用品，家具，嗜好品など，ほぼすべての物を実際の店舗に出向くだけではなく，いわゆるEショッピングやTVショッピング，あるいは通信販売など多様なルートから手に入れることができる。しかしながら，どんなに購買形態が多様化しても，最終的に実際の商品，製品が顧客に無傷で届かなければ，使用に供されることはない。%In today's world, people are able to purchase almost anything in their living room via e-commerce. But no matter how convenient the society becomes, to be anything of use, whatever purchased must be safely and inexpensively delivered to the buyers. And the efficiency of package solutions has a great impact both on the safety and the cost of deliveries.rnHowever, deciding a package solution is not an easy job because there are so many combinations of product's shapes and sizes as well as vehicle's types, and the possibility goes as high as in the thousand.rnTOPS Pro, as the package solution simulation software, would make the decision making process more logical and easy.rnTOPS Pro allows users to choose the package solutions to analyze such things as primary pack, inner pack, ship case, pallet, and truck load by clicking the icon on the screen and entering parameters. TOPS Pro's intention is to give packaging designers the logical basis for their decisions since the packaging processes are still work of art and the human judgments are better suited for the final decisions.rnI hope that TOPS Pro would be a helpful tool for those logistics and packaging professionals who are trying to materialize the most cost effective package solution.