Transit Test: Avoid Failures Using Smart Designs

Medical device supply chain and logistics are becoming more and more sophisticated and complicated by the year, consequently resulting in more rigorous requirements for sterile medical packaging compliance. Consensus standards are continuously evolving and changing to meet the needs of industry. Such as the new revision of ASTM D4169 in 2016 that affected the truck vibration simulation to align with updated data from the field. There are on-going changes to various climate conditioning procedures to address different exposure durations occurring in overnight shipments versus ground shipments. The main goal of a transportation test is to strain the package to its worst-case scenario thereby simulating the shipping environment that the packaging will encounter in real life during its commercial distribution. More importantly, it is a regulatory requirement for compliance with ISO11607 – 1. This webinar will discuss observations around the behavior of flexible and rigid packaging when subjected to the stresses of shock, vibration, and drop testing and take a closer look at the dynamic forces at play and the potential effects of those forces on typical modes of failure – cracks, punctures, tears, and abrasion. The objective of this webinar is to discuss and review best practices for packaging design to mitigate risk of packaging failures and improve transportation testing outcomes.

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