Packaging Product Quality Management (1)

With the pace of economic globalization accelerating and increasingly fierce market competition, product quality has become the focus of enterprises to participate in market competition. Product quality is an important measure of the level of corporate management, and it is also the key for enterprises to maintain competitiveness. On the whole, since the mankind began manufacturing products, the history of the development of quality management began. Modern quality management began in the 1920s. After decades of development, quality management and quality control technologies have become quite sophisticated, which has played a significant role in ensuring and improving product quality. With the continuous progress of science and technology, people have higher and higher quality requirements for packaging products. Due to the continuous emergence of new management models and new production methods, quality management technologies are constantly changing and improving. To sum up, modern quality engineering technology generally has the following development trends. According to these development trends, packaging companies should actively respond to timely adjustment of product quality management methods, and adopt new measures to improve product quality management.
One of the trends: the diversification of user needs, and the growth of multi-species and small-batch production in the production mode of packaging products.
Countermeasures: Vigorously research and promote the application of parallel, real-time, quality control theory and technology for small and medium-sized production.
In the 21st century, the market is dynamic and varied, and the needs of customers are varied. Therefore, less variety and mass production, popular in the 20th century, will allow multi-species and small-batch production for customers to order, and packaging products. User needs will also change with it. Under this mode of production, the commonly used quality control technologies for mass production, especially statistical quality control technologies, are no longer applicable. Because statistical quality control must have a sufficient number of samples, for example not less than 50, to reach statistical conclusions, otherwise, the resulting analysis structure will be meaningless. In multi-variety, low-volume production, the production volume of products is often less than 50, so the quality control can no longer be applied to the theory of drawing and sampling inspection. The introduction of concurrent engineering technology and online real-time control technology into quality control practices will be the main research direction for improving quality in small and medium-sized production. The focus of quality control in the manufacturing phase should be on online real-time detection and feedback control technologies.
The quality control in the manufacturing stage is called "conformity" quality control. Its purpose is to make the quality of parts and products meet the requirements of the design. In mass production, people use the control chart and statistical quality inspection technology to carry out quality control. In medium and small batch production, the focus of quality control should be on online real-time detection and feedback control technologies, and the quality of products should be improved through on-line inspection and feedback control.
The second trend is to strengthen product quality management by improving product design.
Countermeasures: Pay attention to quality control in the product design phase, and adopt new technologies such as credibility design, robust design, and quality function configuration.
According to the modern quality management theory, product quality is first designed, followed by manufacturing, quality inspection can only remove waste defective products, and can not improve product quality. Therefore, improving design quality should be placed at the top of quality management and quality control. Because of the inherently deficient product in design, no matter what measures are adopted in the subsequent manufacturing process, the final quality of the product cannot be guaranteed. Commodity packaging design is based on certain commodity attributes (including physical, chemical and biological properties of commodities), physical structure of goods, storage and transportation conditions, conversion of spatial distance, promotion of merchandise, and other needs, from the shape of packaging containers, Material selection, decorative patterns, colors, text descriptions to the process of making a packaged product with a specific purpose. In this thinking and creation process, the improvement of product quality should be considered as an important factor, and the design plan should be determined based on the actual production capacity and technological level of the company. In order to improve product design quality, in addition to reviewing design results, various modern design techniques can also be used in the design process, such as credibility design, robust design, quality function configuration, dynamic design, finite element analysis, simulation Technology to ensure the scientific and rational design of packaging products to meet the quality requirements of products.
The third trend is that the production standards allow for the existence of trade standards, and the impact of aesthetic quality on packaging products is gradually increasing.
Countermeasures: According to the actual needs of users to determine the packaging product quality standards, pay attention to improve the aesthetic quality of packaging products.
The product quality standards are divided into production standards and trade standards. At present, the product standards of domestic packaging companies are basically the implementation of the quality standards set by the relevant government departments, that is, production standards, and at the same time accept the inspection and supervision of the government quality supervision department. Producers target their products to or above national standards, while internationally accepted standards are trade standards. The difference between the two lies in the fact that the former are mostly national standards in terms of the composition of the standard system, but they are more often based on the market and the situation of the company. In formulating the guiding ideology of the standard, the former is guided by production as the main or even the only goal, rather than focusing on changes in market demand, while the latter is mainly oriented to the market and the user as the starting point; in the standard indicators, the former indicators Many projects are detailed, while the latter has only a few basic indicators. Other requirements are constantly changing according to changes in the market, so that they are adaptable and position product quality standards at the user's needs.
An important concept in the trade standards of packaging products is the aesthetic quality of the packaging products. One of the distinguishing features of packaging products, unlike other industrial products, is the higher aesthetic quality of packaged products. People are not only demanding that their products satisfy the needs of their use, but they also hope to obtain the visual satisfaction and enjoyment of the beauty on the goods and their packaging. The direct reflection of the visual satisfaction and enjoyment of the beauty obtained on packaging is the aesthetic quality of product packaging. With the increasing wealth of society and the improvement of people’s cultural quality, people’s consumption psychology and needs have undergone profound changes. When people purchase goods, they not only value the use value and price of the goods, but also value the added value of goods by the cultural value of aesthetic value, emotional value, and social value of the goods and packaging. Strengthening the aesthetic quality management of packaging products will become an important aspect of product quality management for packaging companies. There are numerous examples of cases where Chinese enterprises have accumulated poor sales due to poor quality of product packaging, or have caused huge economic losses in terms of export earnings. On the contrary, because of the improvement in aesthetic quality of product packaging, it is also a case of obtaining backlogs of products that are sold well, or that are used to increase exports. example. (To be continued)