DIN EN 15433-6:2016-11

This standard specifies the technical and functional properties of automatic recording equipment used to determine randomly appearing shocks during transportation. Such automatic recording equipment can be used to: - determine mechanical shock loads on individual transportations; - monitor the transportation means to observe the limits of the shock parameters; - determine the shock loads on the transported item. This standard defines the sensors to be attached to the device, and specifies the minimum requirements for the parameters to be adjusted. It also defines the minimum requirements for the data analysis, as well as the data presentation. This standard covers the complete recording equipment, including its accelerometers and the data analysis in an external data processing unit. The accelerometers can be integrated into the device or separately mounted from it (external sensors). This standard also applies to the routine monitoring of individual transportations. Compared to DIN EN 15433-6:2008-02 Clause 4 "Requirements for automatic recording devices" and Clause 6 "Analysis" have mainly been revised. By way of adaptation to this the terminology section (Clause 3) has also been revised and additional terms added. Finally, the examples given in Table .1 for the setting of a shock recorder have been supplemented by two further types of transportation. This document (EN 15433-6:2016) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 261 "Packaging" (secretariat: AFNOR, France) with the collaboration of German experts. Working Committee NA 115-01-04 AA "Anforderungen und Prüfung" ("Requirements and test methods") at DIN Standards Committee Packaging (NAVp) is responsible for the German collaboration.