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Protective Packaging Design 

 Manufacturers lavish great care on both the functional and aesthetic design of a product and the packaging is considered as an afterthought.  At IPS Ltd, we supply the care and functionality in the design of packaging for your product.

Our design criteria are based on the International Safe Transit Association (ISTA) test protocols. Thus during a design brief we need to consider the following factors;

Product fragility

Knowing how fragile a product is helps us determine the level of packaging needed to protect it, below is a guide to the level of fragility that we use when the customer can not give precise information.

Sensitivity G Factor Type of product
Very Sensitive 20-40G Disk Drives
Sensitive 40-60G VDUs electronic equipment
Moderately Sensitive 60-80G Optical equipment
Fairly sensitive 85-110G Small domestic appliances, china, glass
Non sensitive 110G+ Engineering parts, bottles

 

 

 

 

 

 

Static stress loading

Load Per unit of area applied to a body.

Unit Weight

The weight of the product will determine the estimate drop height that the product maybe tested too under ISTA conditions

Packaged-Product Weight Drop Height Impact Velocity
Equal to or
greater than		 But Less than Free Fall Incline or Horizontal
lb kg lb kg in mm ftte rrv's
0 0 21 10 30 760 13 39
21 10 41 19 24 610 11 35
41 19 61 28 18 460 10 30
61 28 100 45 12 310 80 25
100 45 150 68 8 200 66 20

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thus a unit weighing between 10 and 19kg maybe dropped from a height of 610mm in a free fall scenario.

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