Goods are sometimes exposed to severe stresses during transport. These can be temperature fluctuations or mechanical shocks caused by road damage or the throwing of parcels. Herbert Hänchen GmbH offers test benches for bulk shippers and other logistics companies that simulate precisely these transport conditions.
The mechanical engineering company helps with its test benches, make parcel packaging more secure and prevent damage in advancebecause bulk shippers must ensure that the product reaches the customer undamaged. This is why many rely on their own standards for packaging or on the specifications of the International Safe Transit Association (ISTA), the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) or the DIN-EN-ISO standards. These specify which requirements packaging must fulfil in order to withstand certain transport loads.
The test benches for the transport simulation of packaging are developed on the basis of these specifications by Hänchen designed. They should simulate situations that arise during transport as realistically as possible and to prevent transport damage. These include vibrations caused by road transport, knocks and impacts caused by throwing the parcels or climatic changes, for example in winter when transferring from a warm warehouse to a cold transporter.
Turnkey simulation test benches
The special machinery division Ratio-Drive Hänchen offers simulation test benches according to the customer's individual specifications. These can be Vibration test, shock test, vibration and drop test or compression test act. Consulting, engineering and realisation from a single source.
Ratio-Drive means: the customer knows the process that the machine needs to map, the company from Ostfildern near Stuttgart builds the customised machine and configures the software developed in-house to control all processes. Hydraulic cylinders produced in-house or solutions with electric drives can be used. The customer receives a Customised, turnkey test standwhich consists of powerful modules.
With the Vibration tests are performed Vibration loads on the packages specifically through mechanical-dynamic loads, such as those that occur during vehicle transport. Hänchen builds shake and vibration test stands in which the mass of the test specimen can be up to 150 kilograms, with package dimensions of up to 800 x 800 millimetres.
Shock test benches simulate errors during handling during the transport process and are used to check product stability. Hänchen offers a lifting device that simulates drop height and force. Impact movements with high acceleration can be realised using hydraulic cylinders.
Parcels are often stacked on top of each other in the warehouse and during transport. In this scenario, the packaging must also be able to withstand the load required by the mail order company. Hänchen simulates these long-term and short-term loads via upsetting presses according to customer requirements.
All tests are documented with automatically analysed and verified test protocols. The transport loads determined in the process can then be through improvements to the packaging as well as through appropriately adapted filling materials in the package.
