Design of High Capacity Beverage Crate for Transportation of Beer Bottle Using Finite Element Analysis

Packaging is one of the main considerations that drives and support good transportation system. In beverage transportation, the package has to be designed to safely contain the product while allowing for high transporting capacity. This research applied the concept of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to analyze and improve an existing design of beer bottle crate. A packaging beer crate of beer Lao has been chosen as a case study. Static loading in different scenarios such as stacking and lifting were investigated with FEA. The result shows that the improved design can increase the number of bottles per crate by 8% while keeping the same dimensional size. A novel insert design was also introduced to help absorbing shocks and vibration during the transport.