The packaging and printing industry is a service-oriented manufacturing industry in the modern industrial system, where ordinary packaging mainly serves the function of protecting products. With the development of modern science and technology, especially the advancement of internet technology, digital communication technology has enabled interconnection among people, making consumers nodes in the information network capable of transmitting and receiving various information. Hence, packaging today serves as an important carrier for achieving interconnectedness among objects and tracing the origin of products. Throughout the logistics process, packaging accompanies the internal products through a series of movements including acquisition, transportation loading and unloading, storage and maintenance, wholesale distribution, and retail sales, playing a comprehensive functional role. The more fully packaging functions are utilized, the greater the economic and social benefits obtained.
Due to the progress of science and technology and the diversification of consumers, traditional single packaging modes and printing technology production have become inadequate to meet the packaging needs of fast-moving consumer goods. While ensuring consumer health, it is necessary to conduct research on new issues and new consumer demands arising in packaging, making product packaging adaptable and satisfying the increasingly growing demands of the people. In the logistics system, integrating packaging with flexible electronic systems to achieve interconnectedness among objects under the conditions of the Internet of Things can provide an important basis for tracing the circulation links and processes of commodities in real-time, which is also a fundamental condition for realizing the intelligence and automation of logistics and preventing significant economic losses caused by counterfeit goods. The integration of information technology into product packaging can bring about a new packaging mode and packaging service concept, realizing new functional technologies and processes for product brand and quality enhancement, anti-counterfeiting, logistics systems, consumer upgrades, after-sales services, etc. Similarly, for areas such as preserving and dynamically serving pharmaceutical packaging, authenticating information about highland specialty agricultural products and fruits, and preventing counterfeiting of their places of origin, it holds important reference and application value.
