Laboratory transit simulation can reproduce real-world supply chain conditions under controlled conditions, helping evaluate performance from manufacture and shipment through to delivery and use.
Our capabilities include climatic conditioning, compression, drop and impact, shock, vibration and pressure differential testing.
How packaging transit testing can help
Smithers supports packaging and product testing programmes for:
- Product validation – evaluating whether the product is sufficiently robust to withstand expected supply chain hazards
- Packaging validation – evaluating whether packaging provides the protection needed during distribution
- Shipment damage investigation – reproducing real-world hazards to help identify causes of damage and evaluate potential solutions
- Healthcare packaging programmes – generating evidence to support applicable packaging validation and regulatory requirements
Real-world packaging transit simulation
We can recreate a range of distribution environments, including:
- Healthcare distribution and cold-chain shipping
- Parcel and courier delivery
- Less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments
- Unit load and full-pallet shipments
- Retail distribution and mixed-load shipments
- Roll cages and mixed pallets
Industry and product expertise
Smithers operates package testing laboratories in Leatherhead, UK, and Lansing, Michigan, USA, supporting testing programmes for a wide range of products and global distribution environments.
Industries and products supported include:
- Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) and consumer packaged goods (CPG)
- Medical, pharmaceutical and healthcare products
- Fresh, chilled, frozen and dry food products
- Beverages
- Personal care products
- Automotive and industrial components
- Consumer, automotive and industrial electronics
- Toys and hobby products
- Aerospace and defence products and components
- Dangerous goods and hazardous materials
Accreditation
Smithers' packaging transit testing laboratories are ISTA certified and ISO 17025 accredited, with experienced specialists supporting standard and bespoke distribution testing programmes.
Talk to an expert about your transit testing requirements
Talk to our specialists about your packaged product, distribution environment and the hazards or performance requirements you need to evaluate.
Download a brochure for more information on packaging transit testing:
Packaging Transit Testing and Product Durability
- 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
