Why You Should Attend
This course teaches you how to improve package design, thereby reducing product damage and lowering costs. It details the basic steps outlined in ASTM D6198 Standard Guide for Transport Packaging Design.Product damage during transportation and handling is a major concern, and often a major cost component, of every product manufactured anywhere.
Today there are new materials, new systems, and new machines changing the way your product can get to market safer, in better condition, and less expensively.
In short, you will take home information on how to use better design to reduce handling and transit damage and, thereby, improve bottom-line efficiencies.
About ASTM and Sponsoring Committee D10
Established in 1898, ASTM is one of the world's largest voluntary standards development organizations. ASTM standards have grown to be among the world's most widely used and accepted documents. The 81-volume Annual Book of ASTM Standards (available on CD ROM) contain over 11,000 standards written by 34,000 members on our 140 technical committees. Committee D10 on Packaging developed the standards used in this course. For more information on Committee D10, contact Tom O?Toole at (610) 832-9739 or go to our D10 technical committee page.
Free ASTM Membership
Attend this course and receive a FREE 1-year membership to ASTM International and Committee D10 on Packaging. (Applies to new members only and may not be used to renew existing memberships)
Attention: Professional Engineers
If your state has a continuing education requirement for license renewal, ASTM training courses and ASTM membership can help you meet that requirement.
Here's What You'll Learn
* Details of the basic steps to success in the package design process
* Which hazards in physical distribution affect package performance and how including graphic videos of freight handling and transportation
* The role of pre-shipment testing to verify successful package design comparison of ASTM, ISTA, ISO, and Rule 180 requirements and videos showing proper methods of testing
* Corrugated shipping containers, materials and design strengths and weaknesses of corrugated and how to design around them when to specify burst versus ECT, and what other parameters to consider
* Cushioning for shock and vibration protection materials and systems to consider, and how to design for optimum performance
* Providing for bracing, spacing, or void fill, and abrasion or corrosion prevention materials and systems to use inside the package
* Unitizing of packages for more efficient handling in distribution with pallets, slipsheets or clamp trucks; pros and cons of each unit load stabilization- methods and materials, which to use
* Pictorial markings and how they can reduce handling damage
Who Should Attend
This course is created for those packaging professionals who design, specify, purchase, or sell transport packaging, offering dozens of insights and practical tips.
Course Outline
* Basic Steps to Successful Package Design
* Hazards in the Distribution System
* Testing Packages for Hazard Protection
* Corrugated Shipping Containers--Specification and Design
* Cushioning for Shock and Vibration--Material and Design
* Dunnage Materials for Bracing , Blocking, Void Fill, Abrasion, Corrosion
* Unitizing Systems--Pallets, Slip Sheets, Stretchwrap, etc.
* Pictorial Markings to Improve Package Handling
Instructor
Alfred H. McKinlay?s career in industry spans more than 40 years, including 27 years with GE, plus hundreds of hours lecturing, writing and teaching. He has provided highly specialized consulting and engineering services in the packaging and handling industry, which include analysis, design, and testing of transport packaging of consumer, commercial, and industrial products; unit load systems for packaged products; and material handling systems for packaged products. During his career, he has developed, tested, and implemented protective package designs and systems for a wide variety of products, and has performed many comprehensive surveys of packaging and handling programs. He was also an internal consultant for GE for over 20 years. McKinlay is a registered Professional Engineer in manufacturing and engineering; a Certified Professional in packaging and handling; and a Certified Manufacturing Engineer. He received his B.A. in Industrial Administration at Union College, and is a Fellow of ASTM and the Institute of Packaging Professionals.
On-Site Training Available
ASTM can bring this course to your site. For more information, contact: Scott Murphy, phone: (610) 832-9685, fax: (610) 832-9668.