Product Testing
While all packaged products have a natural ability to withstand damage from their shipping conditions, product testing can help determine endurance and evaluate reliability. By correctly evaluating your products’ fragility, the appropriate amount of packaging required to guarantee safe arrival can be developed, saving product owners time, money, and materials. Effective product testing not only yields immediate cost savings, but detecting product weaknesses early on avoids the compounded consequences over time of delivering a substandard product plagued with product defects.
What Is Product Testing?
How We Evaluate and Test Your Product
Reliability Testing
Product reliability testing can help product owners ensure that product quality and durability remain consistent throughout the life cycle of the product, component, or material tested. When performing reliability testing, specific conditions are replicated to identify defects, weaknesses, or failures. This type of testing and product evaluation assesses the product’s ability to perform as designed through the duration of the intended life cycle.
Mechanical Shock
- ASTM D3332 - Test Methods for Mechanical-Shock Fragility of Products, Using Shock Machines
- ASTM D5487 - Test Method for Simulated Drop of Loaded Containers by Shock Machines
Vibration
- ASTM D999 - Test Methods for Vibration Testing of Shipping Containers
- ASTM D3580 - Test Methods for Vibration (Vertical Linear Motion) Test of Products
- ASTM D4728 - Test Method for Random Vibration Testing of Shipping Containers
Polymer Testing
Polymer
- ASTM C297 - Test Methods for Flatwise Tensile Strength of Sandwich Constructions
- ASTM D638 - Test Method for Tensile Properties of Plastics
- ASTM D790 - Test Methods for Flexural Properties of Unreinforced and Reinforced Plastics and Electrical Insulating Materials
Accelerated Aging
- 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 and Humidity Testing
- Altitude
- Humidity Exposure
- Temperature-Lifecycle
- Thermal Shock
Why Purple Diamond?
Purple Diamond is an all-inclusive testing environment, equipped to facilitate product testing across multiple industries including Biotechnology, Consumer Packaged Goods, Life Sciences, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals, and more. In addition to product reliability and fragility testing, Purple Diamond offers extensive materials testing and package integrity testing solutions. Our team of expert engineers are able to test and validate both the packaging and shipping environment specific to your product.
Testing the fragility and reliability of your product in compliance with the standards set forth by ASTM International, Purple Diamond is committed to delivering high-quality results as we develop a comprehensive solution to your specific product testing needs.
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