I’m in the middle of breaking down the packaging of a Roland digital piano for recycling, and I’m impressed by how some of it uses intricately-folded cardboard instead of molded styrofoam to hold stuff in place.
I’m in the middle of breaking down the packaging of a Roland digital piano for recycling, and I’m impressed by how some of it uses intricately-folded cardboard instead of molded styrofoam to hold stuff in place.
It takes an engineering degree. They need to calculate various physical forces, and design the cheapest way possible to protect the product. They need to understand the limits of mold making tech for styrofoam, and die cutting/folding tech for cardboard. And, they need to design for automated insertion. It’s quite the puzzle, and something I would have loved to do, had I any idea the job existed back when I was going to school. Not that I could handle the math, but still.