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Material handling standards

Material handling standards

Material handling standards

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Our company is developing a product which may be used in the material handling industry.  The product is a small plastic part which is attached to items using screws, rivets or adhesive.  The question is, how strong does the attachment method and part need to be?  Are there existing standards for impact, vibration, etc that are used in the industry?  ASTM or other?

RE: Material handling standards

The attachment method and material should be based on what you want to fail first under terminal conditions. You can save the component by having the fastener fail or sacrifice the component by oversizing the fastener. Either way you end up designing based on catastrophic failure.

John S. Crowe
johnscrowe@worldnet.att.net

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