FedEx FedEx Procedures for Testing Packaged Products Weighing Up to 150 Ibs. At FedEx, we believe that smart packaging strategies can help your goods arrive at their destination on time; they can also save you money. To eliminate the recommends a series of shipping-integrity tests for your FedEx? shipments. We can perform the tests for you, or you can follow our instructions to simulate air and ground shipping environments. Overview of General Testing Procedures When we conduct vibration testing, we test packaging for liquids, dangerous goods, hazardous materials, and FedEx package-testing procedures are based on industry other items with directional sensitivity upside down, data, as well as international testing procedures and with bottle caps and directional up arrows facing standards, to provide reliable packaging tests. Here downward. Never send actual dangerous goods or we outline the general simulation procedures for testing hazardous materials to ourtestinglabs.Instead,send packaged products weighing up to 150 Ibs. We use drop, samplepackagecomponentscontainingnonhazardous impact, compression and vibration tests to evaluate the substitutes such as water or sand in a weight equal integrity and protective performance of the packaging. to your proposed packaging. We consider package-closure performance an important We follow a strict sequence of testing procedures. performing tests on each sample in the sequence the contents after completion of all test procedures, indicated in the following table unless obvious damage is noted during or after an individual test Tests for Packaged Products Weighing Up to 150 Ibs. U.S. Shipments International Shipments Electronic, Powered, Medical Items Product/Service All Other Items All Items Elongated Regular Flat Elongated Regular Flat Elongated Regular Flat X Free-Fall Drop Test* X X X X X X Concentrated Impact Test X X X Bridge Impact Test X X Compression Test X X X X X X X + Rotary Vibration Test X X X Random Vibration Test - U.S.** X X Random Vibration Test - International* X X X Second Free-Fall Drop Test* X X X * Computer-aided data acquisition and analysis are available upon request. ** Currently the random vibration system can test samples up to 200 Ibs., and the rotary vibration table can test samples up to 1,250 Ibs. Contact FedEx Packaging Design and Development before sending test samples weighing more than 200 Ibs. The FedeEx Packaging Design and Development department reserves the right to alter the test sequence or equipment used to accommodate special package characteristics commodities or testing equipment limitations to provide the most representative test possible. When package or content conditions are uncertain, or conditional on customer input, a"Post-Test Inspection Notice" will be sent with the report after the test is completed. For packaged products over 150 Ibs., please refer to the FedEx Procedures for Testing Packaged Products Weighing More Than 150 Ibs. brochure. Page 2 Packaging Definitions Drops Package Weight Drop Height For testing purposes, we classify packaging into three per Sequence categories. Use these simple definitions to determine if 30" 10 Equal to or less your packaging configuration is flat, elongated or regular. than 75 Ibs. Greater than 75 Ibs. 24" 10 Flat Package but equal to or less than 100 Ibs. We classify a package as flat if the shortest dimension is less than or equal to 8", the next shortest dimension Greater than 100 Ibs. 18" 10 is at least four times the length of the shortest but equal to or less dimension, and the volume of the total package is at than 150 Ibs. least 800 cubic inches. Free-Fall Drop Test Procedures We employ a free-fall drop tester* to drop packages Elongated Package onto a flat, firm, nonyielding steel base. We vary the We classify a package as elongated if the longest drop height based on the package weight shown in the dimension is at least 36" and the other two dimensions chart. For international pro