When you’re creating a new product, the last thing on your mind is how the product will be packed for shipment. Failure to plan for and comprehend electronics packaging in terms of how your components and final item will be sent, on the other hand, is an expensive mistake.
Subcomponent Transportation
Let’s start with how your vendors will ship your subcomponents. Understanding how your electronics will be sent and where they will be shipped from may affect the operation and dependability of your goods in complicated supply chains.
There is an increased danger of environmental exposure since so many printed circuit boards (PCBs) and other electronic subcomponents are made in Southeast Asia. For every benefit of manufacturing in Asia, there are difficulties to overcome. When creating electronic subcomponents and printed circuit boards in a subtropical environment, the packaging is just as important as the equipment your supplier(s) utilize. Electronics Packaging is one of the most specific areas to save money by adopting lower-cost off-brand components, making it more critical to ensure you know what you’re buying.
So we must question ourselves:
What are the most critical elements we must consider when supplying packaging to our international suppliers?
What kind of PCB packing boxes will you use? This may seem extremely straightforward, yet it is often disregarded and poses several obstacles to your goods’ safe and dependable transportation.
Begin from the beginning:
There are material limits based on the country where your gadgets are manufacture. Check out the IPC 1601 Printed Board Handling and Storage Guidelines for more information on shipping limits.
PCB Packaging Boxes – Durability
This is what drives up the cost of your packaging and, in the end, is the most critical need of any Electronics Packaging. When transporting electronics, particularly PCBs, there are two significant considerations: weight and form.
Printed circuit boards are often square and have sharp edges. If you don’t utilize the proper thickness of foundation material, you risk damaging the boxes, which might subsequently harm your PCBs. In addition, because handling is an integral part of the PCB manufacturing process, no one wants to supply bare boards with broken corners.
At Fast Custom Boxes, we demand a double-walled, 200lb burst test with a minimum comb weight of 84lbs per m/sqft and a weight restriction of 65lbs.
Straps and Tape
Tape is often where suppliers attempt to save money by using a lesser quality of the product. This is an intriguing notion since utilizing a lesser quality tape usually means using more of it. As a result, there are no-cost reductions.
Aside from the brand, another factor to consider with tape is how packages should be tape. Regardless of the tape grade used, a single strip of tape along the seam of an overpacked box will not hold.
Straps are a minor problem on the exterior of packages. Many manufacturers want to add straps to the exterior of boxes to make picking up individual goods simpler.
The second difficulty with straps is that if your company, like Fast Custom Boxes, has a relationship with a giant carrier like UPS, straps might pose serious issues. For example, your shipment will be clear via UPS’s Louisville, KY hub when sending a small delivery with UPS. There are almost 155 miles of conveyor belts at that center that your shipment will pass through. These straps create issues at the hub because they come undone and jam the conveyor belts.
Internal Containerization
The manner most electronics are wrap is essential to the product’s operation. This is why we use Moisture Barrier bags and desiccants. However, what goes on within the box is essential. We do not utilize bubble wrap or packaging peanuts at Fast Custom Boxes.
Both of these materials permit excessive movement inside the container. They also have little effect in preventing moisture leakage. It is usually preferable to utilize polystyrene high-density foam. Which should be wrap around the goods on all sides of the box.
Summary
Spending years creating and testing complicated electronics for every sector. Only to fail to safeguard those goods and components across the supply chain.
We are also making sure that we are utilizing the finest materials to safeguard our items. And ensure that we comply with any nation into or out of which we may be shipping. This attention to detail enables us to optimize our supply chain and bring our clients to market as quickly as possible.
