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Personal Care Products
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- Analysis, Consulting, Expert Witness
360° Product Testing's staff represents broad and deep product expertise.
Buyers, governments, litigators, manufacturers, and marketers have all called upon 360°'s expertise for analysis of, and/or consulting on, products, systems, standards, and methods.
Available services range from controlled laboratory to on-site... verification, testing and/or analysis.
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- Benchmarking
360°'s benchmarking service discovers the best performance being achieved from a group of products or services, and the relationship of others to that performance level.
Developed information can also be used to identify deficiencies in order to achieve a competitive advantage.
Click for Quote - Comparison
"Facts often kill a good argument."
[Edward Deming]
360° has the resources, experience and expertise to objectively, and precisely, compare and contrast a broad range of products and services from a host of industries.
360°´s findings have been widely used for benchmarking, claim substantiation, litigation, marketing, R&D, and vendor selection.
Comparison Overview Video
Click for Quote - Competitive
360° developed test data can definitively answer pivotal questions such as...
How effective is the product in delivering the promised benefit?
In what ways is the product unique, superior, inferior or equivalent?
Competitive / Comparative Video
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Experience
- CLT - iHut - Product Trials
360° Product Testing employs proven proprietary recruitment systems to harvest reliable applicants who are unlikely to be of the usual study participant type (one who seeks to maximize earnings and free products through participation in as many studies as possible, with little interest in or intent of providing valid usage/study information).
Several to many thousand applicants will be screened over a period of days to a couple of weeks in order to yield the desired sample group from the target demographic.
Trials are commonly used to discover participants' perception and the appeal of the trialed cleaning products to include:
* Appeal,
* Preferences,
* Purchase intent,
* Quality,
* Satisfaction, and
* Suggestions.
Product Trials Video
Reporting Tools Examples:
Click for Quote - Expert Product Review
An expert product review is where 360° uses extensive testing experience and expertise to evaluate a product or specific aspects of that product. Based on such evaluations, 360° will identify potential issues and may also recommend or prescribe related improvements.
Expert reviews can be performed in tandem with product trials, where the expert review examines the root causes of issues flagged during the trials, or, where the findings and insights of the reviews are reflected in the product trial´s tasking.
Properly implemented documentation, packaging, product and promotional modifications based on expert reviews, with or without product trials, leads to more usable and satisfying products, positive referrals, fewer returns, and decreased after sale support.
Click for Quote - Out-Of-Box
In this process, 360° employs "technically disinclined"™ participants from the product or service's intended demographic. These participants must set up and use the product for its basic purpose--just as they would at home, school or at work.
Our proprietary anthropological system is designed to reflect the expected experience of 90% of the product's owners, 90% of the time.
Many important refinements have resulted from this process over a wide range of products and years.
Click for Quote - Usability / Ease
With how much ease can average users comprehend setup/ installation/ assembly and use instructions? With how much ease can they enjoy the cleaning product's benefits?
Are accompanying instructions capable of quickly guiding average end-users in the successful product use?
What is the legibility and effectiveness of included materials, e.g., documentation, labeling, etc.?
Click for Quote - User Experience
Through 360°´s proprietary processes employing demographically appropriate users, manufacturers and marketers gain reliable insight into how well their cleaners are meeting design goals and user needs.
Testing is an anthropologically based predictive process that faithfully captures and documents experiences that represent typical individuals using the cleaning product in common applications.
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Performance
- Characterization
360°´s characterization service documents properties, qualities and/or behaviors of a personal care product under test---specific attributes of interest, or the whole system.
Characterizations can be developed over a wide variety of conditions, configurations, and/or applications chosen by the client.
Click for Quote - Claim Substantiation
"In God we trust; all others must bring data."
[Edward Deming]
Can a competitor's or client's claims of being the "longest lasting," "easiest," or "most effective," etc. be independently verified?
360° has the resources, experience and know-how to document or contest claims for a broad range of personal care products.
Claim Testing / Verification Video
Click for Quote - Durability
Since a personal care product's performance over time is critical to perceived value, support / warranty costs, and brand equity, 360° uses a device as a whole approach.
360°'s device as a whole approach matches robust test processes to representative product applications, which results in reliable and systematic testing of capabilities and durability.
Click for Quote - Efficacy
"If you don't like testing your product, most likely your customers won't like to test it either."
[Anonymous]
Working with precision instrumentation and processes, 360° systematically determines a personal care product's tested capabilities, effects and shortcomings.
If tasked with improving an observed limitation, 360° can mock-up solutions supported by the collected data, then retest in an effort to demonstrate meaningful changes to the noted limitation.
Click for Quote - Functionality
"Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it."
[Peter Drucker]
To ensure a personal care product behaves consistent with functional requirements, 360° systematically tests and analyzes feature responses to a broad range of typical and atypical interactions.
Documented findings are presented with detailed visualizations and analysis.
Click for Quote - Mechanical
Using precision instrumentation, 360° can ably determine mechanical properties such as load, pull or tensile strength on most any type of personal care item.
360° also offers:
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* Capacity loading limits
* Endurance cycling
* Failure analysis &
Failure mode identification
* Product mechanical evaluation
* Stability analysis
Click for Quote - Performance
""One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions."
[Wernher von Braun]
360° Product Testing has been called on by leaders in manufacturing, marketing, and end-users for accurate depiction of personal care system, product or component level performance.
360°'s innovative and experienced technical staff delivers accurate results, even in the most trying of circumstances.
Performance Testing Video
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