Real-world transit simulation ensures accurate results
Why simulate vibration with temperature for frozen and chilled goods?
Moving through the supply chain, frozen and chilled products experience vibration (from road, sea, air or rail transport) and fluctuating temperature (from conditioned environments). The combination of these two hazards significantly increases the risk of damage and spoilage.
At low temperatures packaging materials may become brittle. When this happens, packs and seals are more susceptible to physical damage from transport vibration. The likelihood of loss and damage from contamination, leakage, moisture ingress and condensation build-up significantly increases. If packaging is weakened or damaged, movement of the product within is also more likely – this can affect product presentation, stability and quality.
When real-world environmental stresses combine in this way to create specific failure mechanisms – it is essential to replicate the conditions as part of your package testing programme for accurate results.
Next-generation chilled consumer goods package testing
Smithers advanced testing capabilities combine vibration testing with temperature to accurately assess the performance of your packaging in the live shipping environment.
Testing as part of your packaging development, we can help you identify pack vulnerabilities. We can also help you troubleshoot failures or quality issues in the live supply chain - helping reduce loss, damage and waste, ensuring consumers receive products in optimal condition.
How Smithers can help:
Smithers can evaluate product and packaging integrity under the most complex shipping conditions. We provide a guided, end-to-end service, supported by packaging experts working with advanced laboratory equipment:
- Test plan development: our experts will work with you to understand and develop a test plan to meet your objectives – from simulating specific transportation routes to worst-case scenarios.
- State-of-the-art large capacity chamber: vibration with temperature:
- Testing for a single box or full pallet of samples
- Single-axis vibration control
- Temperature range of -10°C to +35°C
- Controlled laboratory environment, repeatable testing: giving you accurate, reliable data without the uncertainties and costs associated with field trials.
- Expert support interpreting and understanding results: recommending next steps and further testing as required.
Contact an expert or request a quote to discuss your chilled and frozen consumer product packaging challenges and objectives.
- Combined Vibration and Temperature Testing of Packaging
- Drop and Impact Testing
- Load Stability Testing
- Package Clamp Testing
- Shock and Fragility Testing
- Packaging Compression Testing
- Packaging Vibration Testing
- Thermal and Climatic testing
- Vibration and Shock Field Data Measurement
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