2. Static stress loading - Load Per unit of area applied to a body.

3. Unit Weight - The weight of the product will determine the estimate drop height that the
   product maybe tested too under ISTA conditions

Extremely Sensitive

G Factor
20G

Type of product
Precision instruments with fine mechanical bearings

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

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 (http://www.ista.org/). Thus during a design brief we need to consider the following factors;

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

4. General Information
Clearly, such factors
as static stress, destination and climatic conditions are also important considerations in the design of packaging and may prompt us to propose the use of ‘Shock Watches’, ‘Tilt Watches’, desiccant and other protective measures.

Aesthetic Packaging
Packaging is primarily there to protect a product; however, other functions may be equally important to our customers.  Marketing, corporate identity and communicating information are all significant considerations. We are fully aware of the important role played by good packaging presentation and we can assist with the design in these areas.

We are proud of our design process, manufacturing facilities and our considerable experience in using a variety of materials. This experience allows us to propose the optimum cost effective solution to your packaging problem.

Packaged-Product Weight

Drop Height

Impact Velocity

Equal to or greater than

But Less than

Free Fall

Incline or Horizontal

Ib

kg

Ib

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

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1. 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.

Packing Sequence

DT102

Hard Drive into Box..

DownArow02

DT202

Box Closed & Ready..

DownArow02

DT302

To receive..

DownArow02

DT402

Crumple Zoned Cushioning.

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