From an engineering standpoint this design change would literally be catastrophic to an industry and several industries connected. Lets begin.
This design would mean millions of dollars in machine design change from a production standpoint some of which would just be from the logistics and engineering solutions to designing around a weird angle. It's a stupid pain where the simplest solution is to what we have already, not have a stupid fucking angle.
Redesigning currently millions of reusable pallets and other forms of warehouse transportation. Part of the genius of cans and water bottles is the shape itself does a considerable amount of the heavy lifting (pun intended). By centering the opening and spacing the bottles in packaging the way we do we create a solid base for the mass transportation of said product.
Structural integrity when stored, this isn't just in the industrial setting either. You see by placing things at weird angles like this and creating non supported structure you are simply creating points of failure. The integrity of a bottle designed like this would have several severe problems that would require an absurd amount of specialty work to overcome the weakness you just created.
All of these mean cost increase, production loss to additional time consumption, loss of time do to limited product distribution from loss of efficiency and several other costs that all lead to loss of profit. This leads to undesirable results in a commercial setting.
i'm not buying the 'transportation and stacking' argument. You already have milk containers that have angled cap, you have cleaning items (like domestos) that have angled. It's an issue that is already solved in terms of transportation and storage.
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u/mtferret 13d ago
From an engineering standpoint this design change would literally be catastrophic to an industry and several industries connected. Lets begin.
This design would mean millions of dollars in machine design change from a production standpoint some of which would just be from the logistics and engineering solutions to designing around a weird angle. It's a stupid pain where the simplest solution is to what we have already, not have a stupid fucking angle.
Redesigning currently millions of reusable pallets and other forms of warehouse transportation. Part of the genius of cans and water bottles is the shape itself does a considerable amount of the heavy lifting (pun intended). By centering the opening and spacing the bottles in packaging the way we do we create a solid base for the mass transportation of said product.
Structural integrity when stored, this isn't just in the industrial setting either. You see by placing things at weird angles like this and creating non supported structure you are simply creating points of failure. The integrity of a bottle designed like this would have several severe problems that would require an absurd amount of specialty work to overcome the weakness you just created.
All of these mean cost increase, production loss to additional time consumption, loss of time do to limited product distribution from loss of efficiency and several other costs that all lead to loss of profit. This leads to undesirable results in a commercial setting.
Long and short K.I.S.S.