Packaging Workmanship Criteria - Examples needed

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samuelng1

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I am looking for information on packaging workmanship criteria which I can adopt for my company. Currently, there is no basis to reject and final decision is made by Sales people. This is very difficult for a Quality guy to accept.

Thanks in advance.

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Samuel
 
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You might want to start out by telling us what you are packaging... Rubber ducks for kids? High-reliability electronic components? TVs? Screws and nuts? Milk?

And what, specifically, is the current criteria sales uses to accept or reject?
 

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If you are Automotive, then the customer should have defined packaging requirements that meet with the strict control of material on their line. I am sure this applies to other industries also.

Packaging requirements should be defined by addressing the following at a minimum:

1. Does it sufficiently protect the product, for delivery to the end user?

2. Does it make efficient use of the available space? (I.e. are you shipping too much air?)

3. Do the materials used meet with either written or intended environmental and safety considerations?

4. Is the packaging marked correctly to identify what is in it, how it should be handled and meets with any international customs regs. Plus, does it provide efficient traceability?

5. Is the packaging designed for the most efficient methods of handling, both for loading the packaging up and decanting the packaging?

6. Does the packaging meet with all customer specified requirements which might include but not limited to the above points.

These are the areas we look at when defining our packaging requirements and these are checked etc..... during the process.
 
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samuelng1

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Well, we provide packaging such as foams and cartons to our customers(electronic and medical industry). However, it seems that our is a secondary packaging. For example our harddisk manufacturer would place their harddisks into ESD bags before placing into foams slots inside our cartons.

Customer specification via drawings are one thing. I am looking at workmanship criteria for raw materials as well as finished goods. Example of what I am looking for is the acceptance criteria for cracks on cartons (how long and how wide can the crack be acceptable) and is it traceable to internationally accepted standard.

Hope that this provides better insight.

Thanks and Regards
Samuel
 
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DsqrdDGD909

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I have a little bit of experience in packaging. When you say cracks in the cartons, what do you mean? Are these holes, tears, coating cracks? What is the substrate, corrugated, white board, clay coated?
 
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samuelng1

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I have a little bit of experience in packaging. When you say cracks in the cartons, what do you mean? Are these holes, tears, coating cracks? What is the substrate, corrugated, white board, clay coated?
The cracks on the corrugated cartons appears to be like tear marks. It happen along the folding lines. How much is acceptable based on industry/international standard?
 
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DsqrdDGD909

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The cracks on the corrugated cartons appears to be like tear marks. It happen along the folding lines. How much is acceptable based on industry/international standard?
I did a bit of googling and here is Hewlett Packard's Packaging guidelines. Nothing about cracks per se but lots about package testing.
http://packaging.hp.com/testing/index.htm

Also HP refers to this site: The Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP)

http://www.iopp.org/store/category.cfm?category_id=4
 
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JadeS

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Well, we provide packaging such as foams and cartons to our customers(electronic and medical industry). However, it seems that our is a secondary packaging. For example our harddisk manufacturer would place their harddisks into ESD bags before placing into foams slots inside our cartons.

Customer specification via drawings are one thing. I am looking at workmanship criteria for raw materials as well as finished goods. Example of what I am looking for is the acceptance criteria for cracks on cartons (how long and how wide can the crack be acceptable) and is it traceable to internationally accepted standard.

Hope that this provides better insight.

Thanks and Regards
Samuel
Hi,

It might be necessary to determine if there are laws for your Country of Origin or for the Country where the product is being shipped or distributed, if not domestic.

For instance in Canada there are Consumer Packaging laws which state that the corrugated packaging must be stamped to hold a certain weight. The contents of the package cannot exceed this weight. For international shipments we are notified that the shipment was off-loaded and inspected at a border. For international we also need to comply with the laws of the Country where the product is shipped.

Regards,
Jade
 
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