Revision to ISO 4180
“Packaging-Complete, filled transport packages-General rules for the compilation of performance test schedules”
Technical Committee 122/Subcommittee 3/Working Group 10
This report is to provide highlights of the 2nd meeting conducted for the revision of the ISO 4180 standard. The meeting was called by Mr. Marco Boncompagni who is the Convener (Chairman) of Working Group 10.
The objective of this meeting was to review the draft document developed from discussions during the first meeting in June 2005.
The meeting was held in Milan, Italy on September 25, 2006 at the offices of UNI. The following experts were present for the meeting:
• Mr. Patrick Nolan of DDL, USA
• Mr. Maurizio Zola, of PEPLMC Italy
• Eiichi Maezawa of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan
• Marco Boncompagni of BPS, Italy
• Ms. Paola Visintin of UNI, Italy
• James Raw of PIRA International, UK.
• R Kupova CIMTO sp U Michelskeholesa 366 CZ-146 23 Prague 4 Czech Republic
• Jana Lukesova CIMTO sp U Michelskeholesa 366 CZ-146 23 Prague 4 Czech Republic
Other experts of the working group who were not present at the meeting were:
• Mr H Binnendijk TNO PTC BV Afd Verpakking PO box 6031NL-2600 JA Delft Netherlands
• Mr. Soren Ostergaard,. Denmark,
The meeting was called to order at approximately 9:00 am on Monday September 25th. After introduction of the attendees, Mr. Boncompagni discussed the draft document.
In the previous meeting, the WG agreed on the structure of combining the two Parts of the current standard into a single document.
The ensuing discussion revolved around the proposed 2nd draft of the revised standard presented by Mr. Boncompagni. Some of the highlights of the proposed draft are presented below and revolved around the Test Schedule Tables.
• Japan (Mr. Maezawa) presented a proposal for the vibration test as follows:
Sept '06 Trip\Japanese Proposal 2.pdf
The committee discussed this proposal and decided to accept the vibration profile as described in ISO 13355, and to accept the time durations for the three assurance levels; but rejected the concept of the using the detailed time durations for the journey length on the grounds that there is no supporting evidence for these test times and journey length correlations; and that in fact each journey will entail various quality of road surfaces and may produce different results.
Other revisions to the tables are proposed as follows:
Sept '06 Trip\Revs to Tables 11-6-06.pdf
• Specifying orientations for the drop tests.
• Clarification for the orientations for the vibration tests.
Other editorial revisions were discussed and approved at this meeting.
The meeting was adjourned at approximately 4:00 pm on September 25, 2006
