Product Testing
Your packaging has one primary goal: to keep your product safe from damage. But how do you know whether the type of packaging you design will be effective? Product testing plays a crucial first step in uncovering this answer by determining your product’s fragility, endurance and reliability. From here, you’ll have a more comprehensive understanding of the packaging you need and the protection it needs to provide.
What Is Product Testing?
Ensuring Product Excellence from Concept to Market
Product testing is a critical phase in the product development process, designed to validate a product’s safety, functionality, and performance before it enters the market. Through rigorous evaluation, we ensure that items can endure the challenges of both everyday use and the demanding conditions encountered during distribution. This process assesses durability and reliability by simulating real-world and extreme conditions, such as temperature fluctuations, humidity, altitude changes, thermal and mechanical shocks, and vibrations.
At Purple Diamond, our product testing solutions span various methods to assess safety, durability, and performance. From simulating extreme environmental conditions to evaluating material properties and product reliability, we ensure your products are ready to withstand real-world challenges. This comprehensive approach helps identify vulnerabilities early, minimizing costly redesigns while upholding your brand’s integrity in a competitive marketplace.
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Product Reliability Testing
Product reliability testing helps manufacturers ensure that the product’s quality and durability remain consistent throughout its lifecycle. During testing, specific conditions are replicated to find defects, weaknesses, or failures. These conditions may include mechanical shocks or vibrations.
Test Methods for Product Reliability Testing
- ASTM D3332 - Mechanical-Shock Fragility of Products, Using Shock Machines
- ASTM D5487 - Simulated Drop of Loaded Containers by Shock Machines
- ASTM D999 - Vibration Testing of Shipping Containers
- ASTM D3580 - Vibration (Vertical Linear Motion) Test of Products
- ASTM D4728 - Random Vibration Testing of Shipping Containers
Polymer Product Testing
Polymer testing evaluates how well plastic-based materials or products withstand various stressors and environmental challenges. The data gathered helps predict the product’s overall effectiveness and verifies product safety and compliance. There are both a physical and mechanical aspects to evaluating the polymer materials, including tensile testing and accelerated aging.
Test Methods for Polymer Product Testing
- ASTM C297 - Flatwise Tensile Strength of Sandwich Constructions
- ASTM D638 - Tensile Properties of Plastics
- ASTM D790 - Flexural Properties of Unreinforced and Reinforced Plastics and Electrical Insulating Materials
- ASTM G154 - Practice for Operating Fluorescent Ultraviolet (UV) Lamp Apparatus for Exposure of Nonmetallic Materials
- ASTM G155 - Practice for Operating Xenon Arc Lamp Apparatus for Exposure of Materials
Temperature & Humidity Product Testing
When subjected to harsh environments or extreme temperatures, the quality and reliability of a product can become compromised. Temperature and humidity product testing uses state-of-the-art environmental chambers to replicate extreme temperature changes, pressure changes, and changes in humidity, yielding insights into a product’s resistance to these conditions over time. Some examples of products that can be evaluated using this temperature and humidity testing method include, but are not limited to, electronics, plastics, and certain metal products.
Test Methods for Temperature & Humidity Product Testing
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Why Purple Diamond?
Purple Diamond stands out as a premier partner for product testing, offering a comprehensive range of services to ensure your product’s safety, durability, and market readiness. With expertise spanning multiple industries—including Biotechnology, Consumer Packaged Goods, Life Sciences, Medical Devices, and Pharmaceuticals—our state-of-the-art, ISO-accredited facilities and experienced engineers provide tailored solutions for even the most complex challenges. From product reliability and fragility testing to advanced materials and package integrity evaluations, we ensure every test complies with ASTM International standards so that your packaging not only protects, but performs.
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