Designers Workshop

 

 

Who should attend:

Structural and graphic designers.

What you’ll learn:

This 2-day program builds the skills of graphic and structural designers in the areas of corrugated design, process printing, prepress, industrial vs. retail concepts, components of structure, trends in design, and more.

Objective:

To strengthen the designers' knowledge in raw materials, testing and production processes and understanding of the reasonable and practical limitations in moving from design to production.

This year will feature a private tour of the United Parcel Service (UPS) Chicago Area Consolidated Hub (CACH) operations and the UPS Customer Solutions Package Design and Test Lab.

 

8:30 a.m.  Welcome and Introductory Comments

Moderator: ESKO Artwork Systems

 
8:45 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

Corrugated Cradle to Gate: Sustainability Opportunities

Debbra Johnson, Market Segment Lead, DuPont Packaging Graphics

 
Made from renewable resources and already enjoying high levels of recycling, corrugated is generally regarded as one of the most environmentally-friendly package material available today.  Ms. Johnson will briefly describe the corrugated cradle and gates, focusing on the flow of sustainability from the source, through suppliers, designers, pre-press, to the shelf and beyond. She will highlight the variety of opportunities that exist to create, influence and ensure increasing levels of sustainability for this vital industry.

 

 9:30 a.m. -10:45 a.m. 

Concept to Construction

Don Pederson, ESKO Artwork

 
We all know what 2D CAD can do for design. But has the power of 3D CAD been fully utilized? How does this apply to the various materials available to Protective Packaging? In this session we will explore what tools are available to bring your design from a vision to reality. Starting with CAD and utilizing standards for application to protective packaging materials. We will then take it through 3D modeling and look at tools available for cutting various materials on a sample table to produce a finished piece. Specific topics include:

1)      What do standards have to offer the designer?!

2)      Using 3D in design for protective packaging materials.

3)      The right tool for the job. Looking at what cutting tools are available to cut specific materials.

 

10:45a.m. – 12:00 noon

Testing of Finished Product: Performance Testing                                        

 Guidelines and Procedures

Patricia Garin, TEN-E Packaging Services, Inc.

Packaging sustainability and material optimization are currently the biggest trends in packaging.  Designers are faced with the challenge of material optimization directives couple with packaging designs which will also withstand the distribution environment. Parcel delivery systems are one of the most common methods of shipment for single package shipments.  This workshop will focus on performance test requirements under the ISTA 3A Test Procedure – Packaged-Products for the Parcel Delivery System Shipment – 70 Kg (150 lb.) or Less, to provide attendees an understanding of the transport hazards that a package will be subjected when evaluated under this protocol.

 

 
12:00 noon LUNCH

 
12:30 p.m. – 5:00  p.m.                                                                                   

Tours of UPS Chicago Area Consolidation Hub (CACH) in Hodgkins, IL - attendees will see one of the world's largest and most sophisticated package sorting operation in which packages spend 15 minutes from being unloaded to being loaded.
Every day, CACH sorts roughly 1.4 million packages, using 65 miles of conveyors and can hit every delivery center in the United States.  and

UPS Customer Solutions Package Design and Test Lab in Addison, IL -  attendees will see the equipment that UPS Packaging Engineers use to provide our customers with optimal packaging solutions using the most efficient and effective materials available in the market.

6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Reception:  sponsored by ESKO Artwork Systems

 

 Friday

 
8:30 a.m. -10:00 a.m.

Establishing Board Performance Guidelines to Monitor Structural Design    

Ralph Young, Alternative Paper Solutions

 
The presentation on the structural aspects of combined board and its raw materials will be focus on economic, social, and environmental sustainability.  We will show examples of what others have done and what you can do. We will highlight profit improvement strategies. The revised ECT Performance brochure from the join effort of the FBA and AICC will be included as a handout.  We will discuss the key physical properties one must receive from his sheet supplier(s) to have any chance of reducing weight in the corrugated box or display. You will leave with quantifiable property targets that you can implement as soon as you return.  There will be list of resource materials including third party testing labs to validate the "quality" of your incoming sheets.

 
 

10:30 a.m. – 12:00noon

The Quest for Sustainable Packaging

George Cusdin, Flexographic Printing Services, LLC

The introduction of Wal-Mart’s Packaging Scorecard has brought the subject of sustainable packaging to the forefront in many industries.  However, the corrugated packaging industry is one of the leaders in ‘Green’ production:  with over 40% of corrugated board production from recovered fiber and over 70% of OCC’s being recovered.  How can we possibly improve on our current track record?   We will discuss this topic, as well as; how remove the non-recyclable, non biodegradable secondary packaging; scoring more ‘Greenie Points’ with Wal-Mart; and using the Packaging Scorecard to our advantage!  

                                            

12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m.  LUNCH

 

 
1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.

Impact of Equipment on Structural Design                                        

Rick Putch, Dicar Inc.

 

This session will explain the influence of structural package design as it relates to various converting equipment. Package design and tooling design are not necessarily the same thing. To maximize die cutting efficiency, one must realize how package design influences equipment throughput. Most of the program will focus on the differences between Auto-Platen and Soft anvil Rotary decanters.

 

Avoiding “skinny slots”, scoring laminated top sheets with counters, and reducing waste within a design all will be reviewed in detail. One will have a much better understanding of the die making techniques that are directly linked to structural design and ultimately effect profitability.

 

 

2:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Impact of Good and Bad Designs on Runnability in a Rotary Die Cutter

Ron Spice, Alliance Machine Systems International, LLC

 
One of the things that attracted me to my current employer was the ability to shingle product in multiple across configuration after a rotary die cutter and yet be able to separate from that in an accurate way the bundle and stacks called for by marketing  and production scheduling. Once I got into it, I realized the importance of a properly considered die layout and design for high runnability. Within this arena, I found myself teaching a class on rotary die cut layout and design focusing on scrap design and multiple up and out layout as well as proper nicking. The following presentation is a series of experiences, dos and don’t in making the die cutting experience highly efficient as a machine center providing somewhat predictable throughput.

 

 

3:30 p.m. Program adjourns

 

 

Member Registration	(payments received at least 3 weeks before the course)	$995
Member Registration	(payments received with in 3 weeks of the course)	$1,095
Nonmember Registration		$1,195