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Gerber Project For Lockheed Martin, Andrew Callahan, Sean Lawyer
Gerber Project For Lockheed Martin, Andrew Callahan, Sean Lawyer
Industrial Technology and Packaging
Lockheed Martin, the world’s premier aerial combat vehicle manufacturer was pressed to find an eco-friendly way to package their impregnated epoxy. In the current system, the epoxy would be cut on the Gerber table to a pre-determined length and then sandwiched inside of two corrugated fiberboard sheets for storage inside of a freezer. The current process was not only labor intensive, but the corrugated fiberboard had to be disregarded after one use. In conjunction with the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Packaging program and Melmat Incorporated, we were able to find a corrugated plastic substrate to replace the currently non-reusable …
Simpler Packaging, Tomiko Oden
Simpler Packaging, Tomiko Oden
Graphic Communication
This project explains how product packaging is become more "green", and thus more simple. Packaging needs to go beyond just simplifying materials and graphics - it needs to create a simpler process in order to reduce wasted time, energy, and resources.