Abstract:
The brake pad industry has many packaging box sizes resulting in 3 disadvantages: (1) the high purchasing cost; purchasing each packaging box size per time with low volume, (2) a lot of storage space, and (3) low transport volume; there is no clear standard and the box's load limit is unknown. Therefore, the research aimed to group the products for designing the box sizes and find the most layers that can be stacked on a pallet. In the case of the study is to propose packaging design guidelines, to reduce purchase costs, reduce storage space and increase transport volume. This work implemented in 2 main methods. (1) K-mean clustering applied to group the products for designing a new package box size, which received in 3 sets of data, 437 data sets each. (2) analyzing the number of products that can be stacked on the pallet by applied the Box compression test (BCT) with the factors that affect the quality of the box. As a result, from proposing to 8 package design guidelines and evaluate the internal factor evaluation matrix method. The 5th approach is the most suitable guideline for the company's needs. It is designed horizontal size of packaging two sizes without adding foam and canceling sizes with foam. These found the cost reduced by 2.9 million baht or 13.43%. The storage space reduced by 2.19 million cubic inches or 48.65% and the transport volume increased by 5,200 boxes/round or 86.7%