I love what Hoffman at #LinkedIn says, entrepreneurs can no time to think and decide. they need actions all the time to make things happen that too at teh speed of light. We are trying to learn and do things so that packaging community can benefit. If you have any suggestions then please do share,

The aim of any business is a long profitability. Over a considerable length of time, earning are achieved by pleasing the customers with good service and products while keeping production costs at a minimum. To do this, something needs to be taken care and that is referred as Quality.There are many definitions to quality and so far there in no single definition of quality which explains it fully. In fact, there is a saying that id anybody can give a complete definition of quality, he will become a lot richer. Webster’s International Dictionary offers the following as its first two definitions of the noun quality:

• peculiar or essential character;
• A distinctive inherent feature; property, virtue.
• degree of excellence; degree of conformance to standard;
• inherent or intrinsic excellence of character or type; superiority in kind.

A few of the Internationally accepted standard definitions of quality are given below but remember that quality is riddled with “jargon”. You must create and communicate in your own organisation a “common language” as the only jargon that matters is the terminology that staff and colleagues will understand. Here are a few definitions of quality: “Meeting or exceeding customers’ expectations at a price that represents value to them”- Harrington. “Fitness for purpose of use”-Juran. “The totality of features and characteristics of a product or service that bear on its ability to satisfy stated or implemented needs- BS4778:1987 (ISO8402: 1987, Quality Vocabulary Part I, International Terms). “The total composites product and service characteristics of marketing, engineering, manufacture and maintenance through which the product and service in use will meet the expectations by the customer”- Feigenbaum. The final measure of package quality is the intact delivery to a consumer of a flawless package that meets every functional requirement. “ At 60miles per hour, the loudest noise is the clock”, says Rolls Royce. That tells more than a tired claim like “quality”. So quality is more a matter of understanding than just limiting in words to define it. It is the way of meeting consumers’ requirements. It applies not only to consumers called external customers but also to various departments dependent on other department called internal customers. It concerns complete supply chain management. Quality can also be defined by the following equation to some extent: Q = f (F,C) Where Q is the quality, F is the functions of the product and C is the cost ot the product. It can further explained as: Q↑ = F↑ Q↑ =C↑ Q↑ =F↑/ C↑ Ideally speaking, one would look for the value addition and that can be best achieved by following Q↑= F↑/C↓ There are many ways of explaining Quality but none of the ways explains it fully. One way is to control the things in such a way so that people keep smiling like J and do not make faces like K L Once people understand quality, they like to practice it. To practice it, it needs some kind of methods. Statistics is the mathematical way of measuring various quality parameters and then taking decisions. Various people have shown the ways of practising quality using statistics and various management methods. Some of these stalwarts are:

• Walter A. Shewhart
• W. Edwards Deming
• Kaoru Ishikawa
• Joseph M. Juran

These people are known as Quality Gurus or Quality Innovators. They have given us the following tools & techniques to practice the quality concept:

• Check Sheet
• Parrot Chart
• Cause and Effect Diagram (Also known as Fish Bone Chart)
• Histogram
• Scatter Diagram
• Control Charts

Control chart viewpoint of quality can be briefly stated with help of the following principles:

• Measured quality of manufactured product is always subject to a certain amount f variation as the result of chance.
• Some “constant system of chance causes” is inherent in any particular scheme of production and inspection.
• Variation with in his stable pattern.
• The reasons for variation outside this stable pattern may be discovered and corrected.

These simple principles provide the foundation of statistical process control and which is the backbone of quality. Shewhart says: “The ultimate object is not only to detect trouble but also to find it, and such discovery naturally involves classifications. The engineer who is successful in dividing his data initially into rational subgroups based upon rational hypotheses is therefore inherently better off in the ling run than one who is not thus successful.” Deming has the concept of Total Quality Management popularly called TQM. Total quality management is management style that focuses on providing an environment in which everyone in the company or organisation works to please the customers. Employees are given the tools, a hassle free setting and the authority to do what is right. Each person is empowered to produce quality and to please the customer. Employee teams are formed, and they work to minimize variability, solve problems and improve everything about the company. The company focus is on pleasing both the external and internal customers, the external customers are end produce users, those people who buy the services and products, the internal customers are persons within the company, production persons who receive the services and products of other personnel. To paraphrase the Deming philosophy: if everyone does the right thing, the right way, the first time, every time, the costs will be lower and the productivity higher. If your products or services continue to get better, you maintain your competitive edges, keep your old customers and bring in new customers. If you as a company seriously work at always doing the right thing, the right way, the first thing, every time, you eliminate reworks and rejects. Your customers are satisfied consumers. Costs are reduced. Profits are higher than your competition’s; you must always strive to be better or you lose advantage. Customers define quality. Therefore, quality is often described as “meeting customer requirement”. Dr. W. Edwards Deming has stated that just meeting customer expectations is not enough; we must exceed our customers’ expectations. We must ‘delight’ our customer. A delightful key is “never irritate your customer.” Quality is customer driven. Realization of quality paves the way of many innovations which many times could be big commercial success helping businesses to survive as today’s quality decided tomorrow’s existence. It is the survival of the fittest theory. To do this , certain tools have been developed mentioned earlier in this write up. There are some more thought to quality explained below:

• Quality can be achieved through vendor focus.
• Outcome of any exercise should be shared.
• Achievement should be awarded.
• Advantages, after affects of quality should be explained, as people explained, as people like to work more once they know what is happening.

Many business houses are realizing the importance of quality. There are many active organisations for advancing the understanding of quality which can be understood that many awards/ certifications are given for good quality works. Some of them are:

• Malcom Baldrige National Quality Award
• George M.Low Award (Nasa Excellence Award)
• The Deming Prize
• ISo9000 Certification

Coming back to quality, Bruce Holmegren V says’ the final measure of package is the intact delivery to a consumer of a flawless package that meets every functional requirement’. Nothing happens until you make it happen, and leaders in organizations are those who make it happen. Making this happen many a times leads t quality burnout. Quality burnout can be prevented when the organization accepts that quality is a journey, not a destination. Te journey is a constant, never ending focus on small incremental improvements. It is not a “foot at a time” but an “inch by inch” approach to excellence. Leaders for this have to be like wild geese fly in formation. Flying as a flock enables geese to travel 173% farther than if each goose flew solo. Nowadays many statistical software packages are available which can be used to implement various quality concepts. One of them is Minitab. Some of these softwares can also be tailor-made to the specific needs of the industry. We summarize quality saying that it is like ideology which focuses on the happiness of all its customers and achieves this with the help of various statistical & management tools so that businesses continue to grow keeping the competition far away. Bibliography

• Webster’s Third International Dictionary, Merrian Webster Company, 1971.
• Eugene L. Grant and Richard S. Leavenworth, Statistical Quality Control(The McGraw Hill Companies, inc. 1996), P.6.
• A. Shewhart, Economic Control of Quality of manufactured Product( Litton Education Publications, Inc. 1931), P. 299
• IPW Panel Reveals Key Steps Leading to Package Quality, Packaging v.30( August1985), p.49-53
• Thomas J. Barry, Management Excellence through Quality (ASQC Quality Press,1991)
• Total Quality Management(Chapman & Hall, 1994)
• Gary Sutton, Tight Ships don’t Sink (Prentice Hall, 1993)
• A. Zaidi, SPC Concepts, Methodologies and Tools (Prentice Hall of India, 1995)
• J.S. Milton Introduction to Statistics( D.C. Heath and Company, 1986)

 It's feeling like the time's run out, But the hour glass, just flipped itself over  again. The sun is slowly sinking down, But on the other side a new day awaits to begin. Above are the lines from a famous song “Dare to Believe”. While listening to this song there was a feeling which can be connected to Packaging Connections. From the inception, we dared to believe to bring paradigm shift in packaging at various verticals -

• We believed in information and knowledge sharing so started www.PackagingConnections.com and sent our first newsletter in 2005
• Dare to start “offsite consulting” and believed it will work. Did a successful project with a multinational in 2007 and since then delivering offsite packaging projects year on year
• We believed in “Rising India” hence brought new technologies in India by signing our first project in 2008 and then many others with a latest addition this year.
• We believed Internet and Content Marketing is the Future and signed our first project in 2008. Now, we all can witness the power of social media in every field, even in politics
• We believed to bring a shift in packaging events so did Ideas & Opportunities that was a kind of packaging event never witnessed earlier. No sponsor, no chief guest, no external speakers. You can check the details at http://lnkd.in/-MfkjR
• With this dare to believe, we launched packaging KPO, e-Learning in packaging and email consulting
• We dare to re-shape the packaging books hence published various books on “Innovation in Packaging”.

We dare to believe that day is not far when we can vouch for a saying Packaging is the visible aatma (soul) of a product, so no aatma, no life and body is useless – PACKAGING IS EVERYTHING Enjoy wonders of Packaging and do dare to believe, the song link is http://youtu.be/jwyLltJtDFE Sandeep Kumar Goyal Founder & CEO www.PackagingConnections.com

Packaging is a great science or art or both. It helps us to protect the products and to get it almost anywhere even if we are not able to travel. It has been helping us to save lives by way of protecting nd transporting the different medicines in the different parts of the world.  But at the same time, it also has its own challenges and those challaenges can be different in different locations and different circumstances. So we would like to take about the challenges and then see if we can solve them. So please come forward and list your packaging challenges for the benefit of everyone who is interested to find the solutions to those packaging challenges,

Hello friends of Packaging

It has been a roller coaster ride for us in 2014 but we enjoyed the wonders of packaging through various adventurous routes. We strongly felt that there is a huge poverty in packaging knowledge sharing and so we continue to fill that gap with our limited resources. It can be easily summed up in the following lines:

 ”Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference.”    -       Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

 

To give you the summary of some of the achievements, please note the following;

 1.     Suppliers Process Capability Assessment : It involved more than 3 continents, 10+ Countries for a top  Pharmaceutical company in Europe for primary packaging material and was managed Offsite successfully.

2.     Interpack 2014: PackagingConnections participated at Interpack 2014 with a bang! Own stall as exhibitors and main motto of global presence for PackagingConnections. Complete team participation. Highlight of 2014!

3.     PackagingConnections Mascot: Savvy launched at Interpack 2014! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpYkPNNc_xQ

4.     Social Networking: PackagingConnections broke its own records yet again! More than 200% raise in Facebook  Likes(50000+), Twitters followers(1000+), and LinkedIn(14000+) members in just 12 months.

5.     Innovation Books: Published 7 Innovations books with around 600 innovations on Packaging. One of the most talked about in 2014! http://www.packagingconnections.com/interpackinnovations/

6.     Vinstar: Content marketing agreement for their  innovative range of wine caps. Vinstar is part of Herti group, http://www.packagingconnections.com/vinstar/

7.     Support to foreign Packaging company programme: Signed up with EMA Pharma, France to offer aluminium seals for injectable market in India http://www.packagingconnections.com/emapharma/

8.     Benchmarking Projects: To find out retail packaging scenario on India’s retail shelves and suggestions to improve visibility for FMCG Multinational at Multiple sites. Successfully completed

9.     Packaging Optimization Project: This was for secondary packaging for leading pharmaceutical and also for India’s top FMCG giant. Successfully completed

So all this happened due to high confidence of the lovely team of PackagingConnections having confidence to meet any packaging challenges and offering innovative solutions all the time.

We thank you for your support and guidance all the time and wish you a great 2015

Enjoy the Wonders Of Packaging!

 

Sandeep Kumar Goyal Founder & CEO www.PackagingConnections.com

Its interesting that Aravana Prasadam is being packed and given in Tin cans at the temple. Its the great step to distribute prasadam hygienically.  This also helps to create revenue as its sold at Rs 60 per can.

Incidentally there is no fssai mark so may be its exempted from food safety standards even though its packed and sold.

But its great that packaging is so nicely used in temples and helps to grow the profession, create jobs too.

Used for shipping and storage of different shaped medium and large size items.Contains and stores small things.Easy to use and convenient to ship. Used in packaging of Shoes, Books,Accessories, Watch, Handmade Gift Items, Battery/Cell etc Source: http://store.packagingconnections.com/index.php?route=product/product&p…

Dear Readers and Members,, During our various interactions with many members and readers of PackagingConnections.com , we had been offered various site sponsorship and listing opportunities but we never did. So now we have opened this opportunity for a limited period. If you are interested then please email us at info@packagingconnections.com , the last date is 5 April 2016 , With best regards and enjoy wonders of packaging Sandeep Kumar Goyal Packaging Enthusiast PackagingConnections.com | Store.PackagingConnections.com | PackagingYoga.com

Like many other subjects, packaging is also one of the service functions and so just knowledge of packaging as a technology is not sufficient to succeed at work place. May a time professionals do many additional part-time evening courses or correspondence courses. The courses cover part-time MBA, supply chain, retail, finance etc. Really speaking all these additional courses are of little help to support the core function of packaging that we study and companies take us to perform. So we are neither here nor there. So quiet often I had been asked what should young packaging professionals be doing to improve the success at work place as simple subject knowledge is not sufficient. Over the years, I had been observing and discussing it with other professionals too.   And the list of skills that are essential to be an effective packaging professional is given below:  

1. Public speaking
2. Basic knowledge of psychology
3. Business writing skills
4. The basics of design
5. Proper grammar
6. The art of persuasion
7. Some other technology as hobby in addition to packaging
8. Bit of acting & voice control (theatre skills)
9. Good working knowledge of Excel/PowerPoint etc say Microsoft Office
10. Some basic knowledge of database management like Microsoft Access
11. Project Management skills
12. Social networking skills
13. Visibility management
14. Some foreign language
15. Any outdoor sports
16. Some basic knowledge of softwares like photo shop, corel draw etc
17. Know the art of storey telling
18. Bring some spirituality in life as it pays
19. Join some NGO kind of group to support social cause
20. Learn to teach/coach

 

The moment you will start acquiring these skills, your chances would improve dramatically and you will be amazed with yourselves.  Don't be satisfied with dissatisfaction,  Just try!

eCommerce in India is growing like anything but infrastructure still needs to develop to really sustain it. I think its growing since market needs it and bridges are built only when rivers are being crossed. Effective Packaging and right logistics are critical for the survival, growth and sustainability of E-commerce.

The Roles of Packaging in eCommerce:

eCommerce typically involves direct to consumer delivery and so packaging must perform number of critical jobs to maintain the expected value  of the product. Some of the issues are:

·         Inefficient packaging

·         Frustration to open

·         Frustration due to big boxes to fit into standard sizes and use of too many air pillows

So what is the solution? We really do not know but one solution could be On demand Packaging or customised packaging supplies on short notice for the small orders etc.

To fill this gap, we invite you to share your experience with us and also let us know if you are offering packaging solutions, materials, machines or anything  to make eCommerce much more successful and we will then be happy to connect you with the right buyers.

The details can be emailed to info@packagingconnections.com

#packaging, #eCommerce, #packagingconnections.

Idea behind this book is to bring the innovations to wider group of professionals to meet the mission of packaging knowledge sharing and that too cost effectively. We feel that this publication will further fill the project pipelines of companies and improve the standards of packaging. Many professionals either do not have the access or time to go through so many innovations together. So we think this publication will fill that gap. Pharmaceutical Packaging is not a recent phenomenon. It is an activity closely associated with the evolution of society and, as such, can be tracked back to human beginnings. The nature, degree, and amount of Packaging at any stage of society’s growth reflect the needs, cultural patterns, material availability, and technology of that society. The pace of the technological change in Packaging field is bringing new innovative packaging ideas and Pharmaceutical Packaging is not an exception. Society is changing daily; meeting new challenge, integrating new knowledge, accommodating new needs. These changes are inevitably reflected in the way we package, deliver and consume goods. Pharmaceutical Packaging though a concept started from the evolution of civilization, meeting new challenges everyday making it necessary to keep innovating. Pharmaceutical Packaging is much specialised field. It is quite broad, encompassing, and multi-faceted task and quite challenging as it requires the application of a large amount of scientific and engineering expertise. Asia Pacific region is expected to show an increase in demand in the global pharmaceutical packaging market. It stated that North America held the largest market share in 2011. It held more than 30%, due to the huge demand for pharmaceutical packaging in Canada and the U.S. this dominance could soon be cut short by Asia Pacific, which is currently the fastest growing region in the pharmaceutical packaging market. By 2018, the region could effectively hold more than 25% of the market share. The market in Asia Pacific is expected to reach USD 20.63 billion by 2018. Development of innovative packaging that provides a combination of product protection, quality, security, tamper evidence and visual appeal to enhance consumer consumption and reduce counterfeiting and other malpractices is expected to boost the market within the forecast period [themify_quote]Seeing this growth pattern innovation in packaging to get the cutting edge becomes even more vital. This book covers major packaging innovation in the Pharma sector in various categories like Resins, Adhesive, Lidding, Flexibles, Secondary Packaging, Closures, Dispensing Systems, Labels and Outserts [/themify_quote]   Book Title: Pharmaceutical Packaging Innovations Paperback: 132 pages Publisher: Sanex Packaging Connections Pvt Ltd Language: English ISBN-10: 938501000X ISBN-13: 978-9385010002 Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.3 x 11 inches Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces Other Pharmaceutical Packaging Innovations Books For More inquiries you may contact : Amita Venkatesh, Associate – Scientific Affairs & Consultancy E mail : amita.venkatesh@packagingconnections.com

Its a great moment for me here in Singapore today when our www.PackagingConnections.com successfully completed 10 years of non stop packaging innovations publishing. We had been publishing Good Morning Packaging newsletter since 24th March 2005 every Tuesday and covering 5 innovative packaging news and much more. So if we use the simple mathematics then its  52 weeks x 10 years x 5 news = 2600 , Wow! I just can not imagine how we did it but thanks and Kudos to our super dooper passionate team.  Those of you have been there with us from initial days will see what a journey we had and the addition of packaging knowledge is growing every day.   From simple packaging innovation reporting, we have become a reference point for packaging innovations and started consulting across the globe in packaging. Not only that now we support foreign packaging companies interested in doing packaging business in India. Our digital assets have crossed 100,000+ mark so we have also now started offering content marketing to innovative packaging companies interested in doing business across the globe. We thank you everybody for a great encouragement and support in last 10 years and we continue to get inspired everyday. Sandeep Kumar Goyal, Packaging Enthusiast  

Action is the foundational key to all success. – Pablo Picasso Creating packaging business is more dependent on how you take responsibility and what your level of engagement is. We can help! We are into packaging consulting and always struggling to get reasonably good suppliers to recommend to our clients. We charge our fees to clients and so would be happy to recommend you free of charge. Your good performance is our reward. We need high quality packaging suppliers who value commitment with time, high performance and quick in service. We need packaging suppliers mainly for pharmaceutical companies and for e-Commerce. In case you know someone to recommend or are one of them then please send us the following details:

1. Products that you offer
2. Contact person name and details
3. Phone number to discuss

With kind regards and Enjoy Wonders Of Packaging! Sandeep Kumar Goyal sandeep.goyal@packagingconnections.com

It is amazing to know that a Japanese burger chain faced an interesting sales problem. The Freshness Burger chain has a very large and very popular “Classic Burger”.It’s the most popular burger among male customers but dead last among female customers. So what’s up with that?

It turns out to be a cultural thing. “Ochobo” (small mouth) is considered an attractive trait for Japanese females. It’s also considered well-mannered to cover your mouth when you open it in public. So basically it’s considered culturally unattractive and poor etiquette for women to open their mouths wide enough to take a bite of this big burger.

You can read the full article Since it would be difficult for a burger chain to change a cultural norm ingrained over thousands of years, Freshness Burger came up with another solution instead. They created a wrapper for the burger with a picture of the lower part of a woman’s face on it. If you eat the burger in the wrapper it covers your open mouth with an attractive small closed mouth while you eat.

Once they implemented what they call the “liberation wrapper” sales of the Classic Burger jumped 213%!

So moral of the story is do you really understand your customer needs?

[themify_quote]The success lies in understanding the customer.[/themify_quote]

Watch the Liberation Wrapper Campaign ....

 

Its a great way of packaging calcium tablets. It truly conveys the message and also looks nice on the shelf. I am sure it would have not been easy to make something like this but innovations have no limits

 

"Namaste from India and welcome to the world of packaging innovations"

After working many years in the industry and having hands on experience, we successfully created www.PackagingConnections.com which is your reference point for many packaging innovations around the globe that you can use. Its absolutely free from the point of view that you do not pay us anything but of course invest your time to go through it, we value your investment and so make sure that we publish only relevant and useful information.

We also now connect different companies and professionals for mutual job opportunities through www.PackagingYoga.com , it’s the partly paid service: means companies pay the nominal fees to get their listings done for direct applications but applicants pay nothing here. We do not send any matching alerts, you only get the resumes from the applicants who are sincerely interested in the advertised jobs.

In case you want to buy some standard packaging materials then you can try our store.packagingconnections.com and to increase your knowledge of packaging, we have the Big Book Of Packaging for you at www.bigbookofpackaging.com

We also offer consulting support to foreign packaging companies interested to enter India and do packaging business. We have already worked with many successfully and many are in pipeline mainly from Europe and US. Depending on your needs, you can also try our foreign support services to come to our great country India and we will be pleased to work with you. For more details, please email to info@packagingconnections.com !

With warm Greetings and Happy Packaging,

"Sandeep Kumar Goyal"

Founder & CEO
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Greetings from PackagingConnections.com! May divine light of DIWALI spread into your life Peace, Prosperity, Happiness and Good Health. Thanks for all your support and taking the time to read our continued newsletters, usefull information, updates related to our product launches and many initiatives through out this year. Here is a recap of some of our best of products and initiatives from able and energetic team . Please click through the above displayed and know more and explore. If you would like to talk some more, please schedule a mutually convenient time for us to speak or email at info@packagingconnections.com With best regards and Happy Packaging, "Sandeep Kumar Goyal"

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