Building of US Military Packaging Technical Standards System
LIN Gao-song, LI Qiao-lan
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PLA Logistics Academy, Beijing 100858, China
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2015-06-11
Abstract
The objective of this paper was to comb through the development process of US military packaging technical standards and packaging practice in order to summarize the experience and lessons as reference to the PLA. It was achieved through collecting, translating, summarizing and analyzing a wide range of US military technical standards, specifications and regulations. The methods adopted included analysis, analogy, induction and summarization. The result showed that PLA could learn the following from the US military packaging: a sound military packaging technical standards system with highly applicable specifications and regulations; a mature organizational system with standardized and orderly packaging practice; advanced and reliable packaging technology with constantly innovated packaging materials. The paper also pointed out some lessons that PLA should avoid.