Perfect packaging systems may be unattainable, but that won't keep food engineers from striving for them.
Optimizing packaging -- or any other area of food operations, for that matter -- is a journey, not a destination. The finish line may be in sight, but forget about crossing it. "It's like golf," offers Steve Kellogg, maintenance engineer at Pretzel's Inc. in Bluffton, Ind. "A perfect score would be 18, but nobody's ever going to get it."
To extend that analogy to a packaging ine: if anyone ever did shoot an 18, either more holes would be added or the tees would be moved.