Openability of soft drinks PET packagings

Silva, Danilo Corrêa; Paschoarelli, Luís Carlos; Silva, José Carlos Plácido da

doi:10.3233/wor-2012-0322-1346

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“…Gofman et al, 38 Yiangkamolsing et al, 135 de la Fuente et al, 166 and Langley et al 167 The packaging design process should be structured to link between users' requirements and design parameters. Silva et al, 168 Yoxall et al, 169,172 Blakey et al, 170 and Chihara et al 171 Opening difficulties can be addressed either by introducing opening-aiding tools or applying design efforts.…”

Section: Packaging Designmentioning

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“…In general, a package can be difficult to open because of the complexity of the opening system, useless instruction, or the force required. 168 Identifying such factors can help designers to produce efficient packaging designs while eliminating opening difficulties. For example, predicting the most preferred grip style while opening peelable packages gives designers valuable information and helps them in designing a package considering users' behavior and preferences.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…135 Within this context, many studies have been conducted to structure the packaging design process with more insights into users' requirements. 38,166,167 Because of the growing complexities and challenges associated with package opening, researchers began to focus on specific types of packages [168][169][170][171] and introduced opening-aiding tools 172,173 to overcome degradation in elderly physical abilities.…”

Section: Improving Packaging Accessibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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State of the art of user packaging interaction (UPI)

Mumani

Stone

2018

Packag Technol Sci

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User packaging interaction (UPI) has evolved in packaging research because of its importance to users, manufacturers, and designers. A great deal of work addressing problems and suggesting potential improvements has been directed toward UPI. However, this work is not easily accessible to researchers as it lacks a cohesive structure. This paper serves as a platform for UPI researchers by presenting previous work UPI in an organized structure based on stages of interaction. Over 100 articles were reviewed to identify the scope of research in this area and then categorized according to stages of interaction. During the review of more articles, these stages of interaction were modified to ensure that they reflected all the reviewed articles. The review process resulted in the enumeration of the following stages: at point of purchase, checking out, handling, opening, and disposal. The related articles in each category are presented and discussed, and potential future work is presented. The articles were further categorized according to the age and gender of users under test, and packaging and product types considered. The review process has revealed different issues in the current research structure of UPI including the comprehensibility of the conducted research and the distribution of the reviewed articles. On the basis of this review, a model is proposed for improving the UPI by quantitatively evaluating the package design and affordances provided at each interaction stage.

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Section: Packaging Designmentioning

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Section: Improving Packaging Accessibilitymentioning

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State of the art of user packaging interaction (UPI)

Mumani

Stone

2018

Packag Technol Sci

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“…Several other studies have already shown that although the opening mechanism of the packages is familiar, elderly consumers might not be successful in opening the packaging just because they are unable to exert sufficient force. 9,17,27,37 Packaging types with torque usually involve both hands, the non-dominant hand that holds the packaging and provides the counter pressure and the active hand that simultaneously performs a rotating movement. 24 Apart from age, gender, grip strength and wrist strength, the diameter of the closure and the coefficient of friction between the hand and the bottle closure are factors that affect the ability to open a bottle.…”

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Evaluation of the Accessibility of Selected Packaging by Comparison of Quantitative Measurements of the Opening Forces and Qualitative Surveys through Focus Group Studies

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It can be expected that many elderly people have impaired opening capacity of food packaging bearing in mind the changes in functionality and physical strength that occur during ageing. This study determined the relation of the quantitative force required to open selected food packaging systems with findings derived from qualitative focus group studies to retrieve comprehensive information on the specific needs of seniors. The focus group studies revealed that the assessment of the ease of opening is very subjective and can vary from objective measurements. The quantitative measurement of the force required to open the 'easy to open' thermoformed tray resulted in considerably higher peel initiation forces of 22.50 ± 1.62 N compared to the standard tray (12.80 ± 1.93 N). However, the packaging type was still felt to be easier to open because of the enlarged tab and peeling corner, which was said to be easy to grip. Conversely, the stand-up pouches with twist-off caps could only be opened with difficulty because of the small caps and the difficulty in breaking seals, despite the substantially lower opening forces of 0.46 ± 0.06 Nm compared with the other torque closures. The evaluation of a package was found to be only partly dependent on the required opening force but strongly influenced by various design factors and consumer's expectations as well as experiences. It can be expected that many elderly people have impaired opening capacity of food packaging bearing in mind the changes in functionality and physical strength that occur during ageing. This study determined the relation of the quantitative force required to open selected food packaging systems with findings derived from qualitative focus group studies to retrieve comprehensive information on the specific needs of seniors. The focus group studies revealed that the assessment of the ease of opening is very subjective and can vary from objective measurements. The quantitative measurement of the force required to open the 'easy-toopen' thermoformed tray resulted in considerably higher peel initiation forces of 22.50 ± 1.62 N compared with the standard tray (12.80 ± 1.93 N). However, the packaging type was still felt to be easier to open because of the enlarged tab and peeling corner, which was said to be easy to grip. Conversely, the standup pouches with twist-off caps could only be opened with difficulty because of the small caps and the difficulty in breaking seals, despite the substantially lower opening forces of 0.46 ± 0.06 Nm compared with the other torque closures. The evaluation of a package was found to be only partly dependent on the required opening force but strongly influenced by various design factors and consumer's expectations as well as experiences.

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“…There have been numerous previous studies examining the openability of packaging across various disciplines, from the study of Rholes et al ., the Department of Trade and Industry, Voorbij and Steenbekkers and Yoxall et al . and more recently of Yoxall and Janson, Su et al ., Kuo et al ., Chihara and Yamazaki, Silva et al . and Bix .…”

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Rating Accessibility of Packaging: A Medical Packaging Example

Rowson

Sangrar

Rodriguez-Falcon

et al. 2013

Packag. Technol. Sci.

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Few previous work has been undertaken in understanding issues surrounding dexterity and access to packaging. Researchers had access to users who had known dexterity issues and had been advised by their doctor to decant their medication into bottles rather than use unit-dose blister packaging. Hence, it was decided to use a range of techniques to understand this problem. It was further proposed to develop a methodology by which the relative performance of packaging could be assessed with respect to dexterity issues.In this study, there were three objectives to carry out: motion-capture analysis, grip analysis and dexterity analysis when opening the blister packs. Motion capture was carried out on eight people aged 55 years and older, a classification of the grips used when opening blister packs was performed on 57 people aged 18 years and older, and a Purdue Pegboard test was administered to 54 people aged 18 years and older.It was found out that there were four common types of grips used, out of which two of the grips were used by more than 88% of participants. With the motion capture, it was found that each grip and their various associated techniques were compared with each other. Grip 2 utilized the least finger movement. Using the dexterity test results, it was corroborated that dexterity decreases with age, and an accessibility score was developed that can be used by pack designers and manufacturers to assess pack performance. Future work is proposed to develop this methodology further.

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Openability of soft drinks PET packagings

Cited by 5 publications

References 9 publications

State of the art of user packaging interaction (UPI)

State of the art of user packaging interaction (UPI)

Evaluation of the Accessibility of Selected Packaging by Comparison of Quantitative Measurements of the Opening Forces and Qualitative Surveys through Focus Group Studies

Rating Accessibility of Packaging: A Medical Packaging Example

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