The Nature of Packaging Science
The development of modern science has broken the boundaries of traditional science, leading to the emergence of marginal sciences, interdisciplinary sciences, and comprehensive sciences Packaging science is a marginal science that intersects natural and social sciences. Its emergence is an inevitable result of the rapid development of social productivity and modern science and technology, the increasing socialization of production, the unprecedented prosperity of commodity production, and the expanding scope of economic exchanges. It closely connects social sciences, natural sciences, technical, and humanities, promoting the mutual infiltration and intersection of disciplines in the fields of science, engineering, literature, medicine, and art, thus forming a discipline with characteristics of packaging —— packaging science.
According to traditional views, the disciplines related to packaging science are as follows: (1) Natural sciences: Mathematics, physics chemistry, and their branches. For example, engineering mathematics, engineering mechanics, elasticity mechanics, plasticity mechanics, structural mechanics, vibration theory, electronics, inorganic, organic chemistry, biochemistry, polymer chemistry, polymer physics, physical chemistry, systems engineering, value engineering, control engineering, and drafting. (2) Technical: Environmental protection, biology, microbiology, material flow, computer science, glass technology, ceramic technology, metal technology, papermaking technology, plastic technology, plate and printing technology, and material science. (3) Social sciences: Political economy, operations research, statistics, as well as national and international standards and regulations. 4) Humanities: Literature, history, geography, philosophy, sociology, ethics, psychology, folkloristics, and the history of science and technology. (5 Arts: Aesthetics, art design, industrial design, trademark studies, advertising studies, marketing, color theory, photography, painting, sculpture, etc. It be noted that it is unrealistic for anyone to master all of these disciplines in a lifetime. However, it is possible to become an expert in one of them. a Chinese saying goes, "There are 360 trades, and each has its own champion."
