Investigating last-mile grocery delivery in suburban areas with Lansmont measurement and test equipment
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Packaging testing
Shipping goods is not just about getting them from point A to point B - it's about ensuring that they arrive safely, undamaged, and contamination-free.
That's where packaging performance and integrity come in - they're crucial for ensuring customer satisfaction, maintaining profitability, and preventing costly losses. You need to have complete confidence that your packaging can protect your products and minimize shipping risks, and that's where Lansmont comes in.
We provide state-of-the-art package testing equipment and instruments that enable engineers to discover product vulnerabilities and make necessary improvements to optimize their shipping methods. Our high-quality equipment and help you develop procedures to identify weak spots in your packaging, prevent product damage and spillage, and ensure that your products arrive in perfect condition every time.
Our solutions are designed with long-term reliability and ease of use in mind, so you can trust in our equipment to deliver consistent, accurate results. Don't leave your product's safety and your company's profitability to chance - choose Lansmont Corporation for the best in package testing equipment and procedures.
What is package testing?
Packaging is a critical part of delivering products safely and successfully to your customers. Package testing is the process of testing packaging materials and finished packages to ensure that they can withstand real-world challenges and deliver the required performance. By subjecting packaged products to dynamic laboratory testing inputs, distribution testing helps to provide the final confidence that the packaging will protect the internal products from the primary hazards they will experience during transport, including shock, vibration, and compressive forces.
Package testing measures interactions and effects across various packaging levels, content, external forces, and end-use scenarios, ensuring that your packaging performs as intended. With the ability to generate both qualitative and quantitative test results, our testing solutions provide you with the data you need to make informed decisions about your packaging.
Our packaging testing solutions
As a business, ensuring the safety and integrity of your products during transit is paramount.
That's why it's crucial to perform comprehensive package testing using specific standards for drop, compression, side impact, and vibration testing.
Simulating real-world distribution
Distribution simulation tests go a step further by mimicking the real-world journey of your products through the supply chain.
These simulation tests involve strategic combinations of testing inputs to replicate the hazards that your products might encounter during shipping. To ensure you're following best practices, globally recognized standards published by bodies such as ASTM and ISTA offer comprehensive distribution simulation testing guidelines.
Don't leave the safety and performance of your products to chance - trust in our rigorous package testing procedures to ensure that your packaging can withstand the challenges of the real world and deliver your products safely to your customers.
Shipping test practices
ASTM D-4169 – Standard Practice for Performance Testing of Shipping Containers and Systems.
As stated by ASTM, “This practice provides a uniform basis of evaluating, in a laboratory, the ability of shipping units to withstand the distribution environment. This is accomplished by subjecting them to a test plan consisting of a sequence of anticipated hazard elements encountered in various distribution cycles.”
ASTM D-4169 provides 18 different distribution cycle (DC) simulation procedures, including a number of different transportation scenarios such as motor freight, rail, air parcel, export and even non-commercial government shipments.
ISTA (International Safe Transit Association) groups their test procedures/protocols into what they call Test Series. Testing moves from non-simulation of transport environmental hazards through simulation in general or broad terms and finally to a test developed from a comprehensive collection of field data.
- 1 Series: Non-Simulation Integrity Performance Tests
- 2 Series: Partial Simulation Performance Tests
- 3 Series: General Simulation Performance Tests
- 4 Series: Enhanced Simulation Performance Tests
ISTA’s 6 Series include test protocols created by ISTA members to meet their needs and applications. The tests may be completely original or may be modifications or variations of ISTA Procedures or Projects or other published and accepted tests. ISTA reviews and approves these tests, but primary responsibility rests with the originating members.
Amazon has partnered with ISTA to develop two 6 Series test methods to help simulate a journey of a package through Amazon’s fulfillment network. The two 6 Series tests are:
Case studies
Heavyweight drop testing with the PDT 700
Lansmont introduces a heavyweight drop tester to our product line with the PDT 700 Precision Drop Tester, for payloads up to 1,540 lbs (700 kg), developed for common ASTM, ISTA and ISO test standards.
