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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?

Product Testing is a fundamental step in product development to verify the safety and general performance of any given product prior to entrance into the marketplace. Rigorous testing ensures that a product will be able to withstand not only the common stressors encountered with everyday use, but also resist the harsh conditions faced during distribution. Durability, a key indicator of performance and reliability, can be tested under simulated conditions such as extreme temperatures, humidity, altitude, thermal shock, mechanical shock, vibration, and more.

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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 testing is used to evaluate the performance of plastic based materials or products when faced with stressors and environmental challenges. Data gathered from this type of testing can help predict the product’s overall effectiveness, be used in product development to make improvements, and verify product safety and compliance.

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

Temperature and humidity testing evaluates the effects of these conditions on products or materials. When subjected to harsh environments or extreme temperatures, the quality and reliability of the product can become compromised. Using environmental chambers, extreme temperature changes, pressure changes, and changes in humidity are replicated to record product performance and measure resistance.
  • 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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Accreditations

Achieving ISO 17025

Achieving ISO 17025 Accreditation is the pinnacle in third-party laboratory testing accreditation. It confirms that the facility has management, quality, and technical systems in place to ensure accurate and reliable analyses.

International Safe Transit Association

ISTA is revered as the certification standard for package testing for distribution. ISTA’s Testing Protocol remains a series of testing methodologies and standards well recognized within the packaging community.

Un Certification for Packaging

A select few companies are authorized by PHMSA as an approved third-party packaging testing laboratory in accordance with Hazardous Materials Regulations, critical to ensuring safe transport of dangerous goods.

Affiliations

ASTM International

ASTM INTERNATIONAL

With over 12,000 standards globally, ASTM International’s fully transparent standards development enhances performance and confidence in consumer choices.
TAPPI

TAPPI

The Technical Association of Pulp and Paper Industry’s peer-reviewed standards improve production through operational methods and industry recognized best practices.

 

 The APASS program was designed by Amazon to help support vendors, sellers, and manufacturers in obtaining certification of their products as Frustration Free Packaging (FFP), Ships in Own Container (SIOC), or Prep-Free Packaging (PFP).

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