I recently met with the Technical Committee 122 to discuss the proposed changes to ISO 4180 - “Packaging-Complete, filled transport packages-General rules for the compilation of performance test schedules.”

The objective of this meeting was to review the draft document developed from discussions during the first meeting in June 2005.

In the previous meeting, the Working Group had 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. 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.

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