// ROBOTICS AND SMART FACTORIES TERM
Packaging
The materials used to protect, contain, and present products for storage, transport, and sale.
TECHNICAL DEFINITION
Packaging involves the design, evaluation, and production of containers and protective materials for products, serving functions such as containment, protection, preservation, information dissemination, and marketing during storage, transit, and retail display.
BACKGROUND
Packaging is the science, art, and technology of enclosing or protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use. Packaging also refers to the process of designing, evaluating, and producing packages. Packaging can be described as a coordinated system of preparing goods for transport, warehousing, logistics, sale, and end use. Packaging contains, protects, preserves, transports, informs, and sells. In many countries it is fully integrated into government, business, institutional, industrial, and for personal use.
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- Wrapping
- boxing
- crating
- packing materials
USAGE NOTE
Sustainable packaging solutions are becoming increasingly important for environmental responsibility.