Research On The Development Of Automotive Parts Packaging

Auto parts packaging has a pivotal position in automobile production industry. On one hand it functions as the carrier of safety, practicality, easiness for transportation, quality protection and corporate image and cultural transmission from parts flow to production process, on the other hand it serves as a key element for efficiency improvement, ergonomics and cost control when delivering parts to production lines for ultimate product assembly. A good auto parts packaging can not only improve transport stowage rate to lower transportation costs, but also reduce the loss rate of defective products to decrease quality costs, meanwhile better showing the corporate image and culture.In western countries, with the rise of industrial engineering and experience accumulated within centuries, a series of automotive industries as represented by Europe, America and Japan have formed a mature and substantially convergent parts packaging development process. Although there may be preferences on strategies and standard selection, for example TP container type is the suitable standard container type selection for Toyota system, while EU container type is applicable for GM and other European and American automobile enterprises.In China, the automotive industry has experienced extensive management until now. Auto parts packaging, after 20 years of development and accumulation, has made some progress. Especially in the past decade, with the flourishing of domestic brand automobile companies and many national incentives and stimulus, especially driven by joint venture automobile companies in the industry as a whole, the spread of the spirit of lean production is promoted, which makes all automobile companies pay more attention to production site management, furthermore to the reasonableness and standardization of the packaging.This paper summarizes the unified approach of parts packaging development of domestic and foreign automobile manufacturers, proposes the answer to how to provide the packaging development and design thinking, direction and procedures of domestic automobile manufacturers, illustrates the specific aspects requiring attention in the development and design of packaging, and introduces mature packaging development cases of the foreign and domestic joint ventures.