In the course of export of precision machinery (printers), broken packaging and/or damaged products have occurred during the transport by air. long--distance truck, and/or parcel service. In response to this, packaging has been redesigned to simultaneously satisfy the requirements for im- proved protection of products. reinforced packaging, and enhanced transport efficiency. As for the improvement of protection of products and reinforcement of packaging, with the in- tention to apply more tight specifications to packaging tests commonly throughout all involved companies, and to withstand three-stacks resonance point vibration. materials have been reviewed and dimensional tolerances have been improved. As a typical design, foam material was used for cushioning material. However, taking into con- sideration the ease of disposition after use, use of the foam material was limited to a required mini- mum to allow capable separation from other materials. The separation from other materials was achieved by elaborated part design and adopted slip-in system. For the enhancement of transport efficiency, optimum packaging geometry and dimensions were adopted based on the experiences in maritime containers and large trucks. Then, allowable maxi- mum number of products for 4Orv container was substantially increased to l44 from the existing 68. The new packaging passed the tests and it was adopted in May this year. However, the dimen- sions and geometry have been reported to cause difficult unloading to containers and trucks, and then redesigning is in progress. For development of new go
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