Corn Chips Packaging and Multi-Package Designs

Corn Chips packaging and Multi-Package Designs

From: tala.AlShurafa@gmail.com 

To:  Belinda Jones

Cc:

Dear Belinda Jones,

I am grateful for this opportunity and thank you for taking some of your time to indulge my proposals for the design of both triangular and circular corn chip packaging. I have vigilantly considered various designs and have carefully calculated a practical and economical design. The appendices given contain all of the calculations and reasonings for my chosen design, an overview or summary of which I will give below.

Both of my designs for the triangular and circular corn chips packaging meet the given design brief. To start, the packaging for the circular corn chips is a cylinder with 170cm cubed serving portion, which started with the diameter of 60mm (6cm) and height of 6.01 cm. However, after adding the space of 0.5cm (as seen calculated in appendix 1a) needed for movement of the chips so that people can access it, it gives me a total diameter of 7cm and a height of 7.01cm. In appendix 1a I have also included the calculations for the total surface area that is 169.74cm squared, and the circumference of the packaging is 18.84cm. A net of this information can be found in appendix 1a.

Moving on to the triangular corn chip, I have designed a triangular-based prism, which holds the 170cm cubed serving portion and includes the space required for movement of the chips. The corn chip packaging started with a height of 4.45 cm, hypotenuse of 7 cm and a base of 5.4 cm. In appendix 2a, I have included the calculations that prove, after adding 0.5 spacing to the corn chip, the length and base changed to 4.95cm and 5.9cm. And as a result of the changes, the hypotenuse must change too; my calculations give me a hypotenuse of 7.7cm.  The height of the triangular prism is 14.15cm.

As for the Multi-Pack box for both circle and triangle single serve packages, I have designed a square based prism that meets the design brief for containing 24 single serve packagings. In appendix 3, the dimensions for a box that would include the required single serve packages were enumerated, along with the 0.2cm and 0.5cm spacings to allow space for movement the packing and unpacking the packages, and to avoid them from breaking due to the tight and compressed space. The circle single serve packages are stacked in two rows and 4x3 so that it would be 12 and 12, which give us 24. The multi pack had dimensions of 15.01cm as the length, 29cm as the base and 21.8cm as the Height, so as you can tell Miss Jones, Multi pack is not large it all, making it easier to transport. It has a surface area of 2790.43cm squared and a volume of 9495.64cm cubed. The triangular prism, on the other hand, has the dimensions of 16.35cm for the length, 24.6 as the base and 28.5 as the Height. This Multi pack’s size is also quite average making it easier to transport. It has a surface area of 3138.57cm squared and a volume of 11462.98 cm cubed.