Warranty Claims Reduction

22 • Warranty Claims Reduction

• Spraying or sprinkling water onto the package to simulate rain

• Cold storage

• High humidity storage

• Shaking/ vibration testing

• Stacking three or more high

• Sliding the package down a chute onto a hard surface

If damage is noticed when the product is unpacked aer testing, then

the packing procedure is modied to include protection from whatever

condition or event caused the damage. e less likely that deterioration

during storage or damage during transit is going to happen, the fewer the

warranty claims that will have to be processed for damage in transit.

e warranty claims reduction methods described in this chapter

are the most common. ey might be called traditional or even classi-

cal methods, but ...