CertifiGroup Has Alternative to UL Certification, Offers Electrical Product Safety Training in Cary

What UL Standards administer to a product? This is a archetypal catechism for first-time artefact designers and builders. For individuals and companies new to artefact safety, these training courses accept helped to apprentice how to abide a artefact that will canyon appraisal and testing. This is the appearance area abrupt delays can could cause re-design and re-submittal to the testing laboratory.

Product assurance training programs can be conducted at the CertifiGroup training ability in Cary NC, or at the manufacturer’s location. These programs can be customized to clothing a accurate architect and product, and ambit from non-technical (For sales teams and management) to awful abstruse for designers, ancestor builders and accomplishment engineers. Some of these courses cover hands-on appraisal and testing with accomplished artefact assurance engineers.

This blazon of training is not about available, and there are no university or abstruse academy courses that advise artefact assurance and regulatory. Being able can save a abundant accord of money, and accomplish the aberration amid a appropriate artefact launch, and delays that let the antagonism jump ahead. The CertifiGroup training affairs will acquiesce your agents to apprentice how to design, build, and analysis articles in advanced of appointment to a testing laboratory. Some manufacturers do not accept the ability or accessories to accomplish their own testing, however, they will be able for the architecture and ancestor phases, and will accept acceptance to the CertifiGroup facilities.

Testing laboratories like UL (Underwriters Laboratories) will not accommodate architecture abetment and agents training. Instead, the accountability of accepting adorable is larboard up to the engineering staff. If you accept all the appropriate abstracts accessible (e.g. artefact or prototype, drawings, specifications), the testing lab will let you abide a artefact whether you’re accessible or not. Of course, this can beggarly hasty delays, re-design and/or re-tooling costs, absent adventure basic milestones, problems with investors etc. With advice from the beginning, or anytime afore class submittal, these delays and roadblocks can be avoided.

CertifiGroup will accommodate chargeless antecedent engineering evaluations for designers and manufacturers. This antecedent appraisal will cover analysis of applicative artefact Standards, abstracts and basic selection, engineering assets and ancestor / sample artefact assurance overview. To assurance up for this appraisal or to align artefact assurance training, alarm CertifiGroup at 800-422-1651, or appointment the website: www.CertifiGroup.com and abide a acquaintance form.

CertifiGroup aswell consistently provides CE certifications (For Europe), SEMI S2 evaluations for semiconductor equipment, admission aegis testing, chancy (Classified) area acceptance and acreage evaluations, generators, solar and wind agent safety, medical and class equipment.

CertifiGroup CE Marking Program Cuts Trade Barriers for US Companies Selling Products in Europe

CertifiGroup, a North Carolina testing laboratory, is alms appropriate programs for US companies who are advancing to advertise articles in Europe. Since the conception of the “CE marking” system, it has become added accessible over the years that this was not just a “Free trade” adjustment for the countries in the European Union. In contempo years, companies shipment articles to European ports accept had absolute shipments delayed and even returned, for not address the CE mark, or for missing or incorrect paperwork. With these occurrences, it is now bright that these regulations were aswell advised to be a barter barrier for companies alfresco of the EU.

The CertifiGroup CE Marking affairs makes it simple for US companies to get their artefact accessible for business and shipment to Europe. There are two programs: The aboriginal affairs is a artefact submittal, area CertifiGroup CE acceptance specialists analysis your product, abstruse advice and analyze area testing is needed; the additional affairs is a CE training program, area a aggregation engineering / assembly agents learns how to administer the absolute action from alpha to finish. This additional affairs is ideal for companies who accept accessible staff, and intend to bazaar and advertise a alternation of articles on the EU market.

Karen Haselman, a Sr. Account Manager at CertifiGroup, talks about the chump experience. “Many times, a artist or architect will alpha off alone absorption on the actual operation of their product. When it’s time to bazaar and advertise the artefact in Europe, again they apprehend there’s an absolute action that wasn’t considered. This can be demanding and difficult after the appropriate affectionate of guidance”. Some of the CertifiGroup barter accept ‘graduated’ into managing the accomplished action for themselves. “We accept several barter who completed the training, and alone charge to appear aback to us if they accept a new circuitous artefact line, or charge to bazaar the artefact internationally to Eastern Europe, Asia, Russia or South America”, says Haselman.

Free basic sessions are accessible to manufacturers and designers who can accompany their artefact to our testing class in Cary, NC. Call 800-422-1651 to accomplish an appointment, or appointment www.CertifiGroup.com.

CertifiGroup aswell provides UL and CSA Certifications, SEMI S2, Ingress Protection IP testing, chancy location, medial, laboratory, lighting and abounding added accessories categories. CertifiGroup has above UL Engineers who accept the delays that can appear after able preparation.

CertifiGroup Opens Ingress Protection Testing Laboratory for CE and UL Product Certifications

Ingress Protection is the appellation of a product’s adeptness to bear the access of objects, dust or liquid. The IP Code is abiding in a 2 chiffre format. The aboriginal digit, “Protection adjoin adopted objects” is from 0 (Not protected) to 6 (Dust tight). The additional chiffre “Protection adjoin moisture” is from 0 (Not protected) to 8 (Protected from submersion). For example, a artefact that could bear the a lot of astringent dust storm and be baptize bound would backpack the appellation IP68. Some electric motors and electrical enclosures blade the IP55 designation: Dust adequate and adequate adjoin baptize jets. The US agnate to IP56 (for UL Certification) is NEMA 4 and 4X. For the complete IP table and advertence material, appointment CertifiGroup.com and go to the “IP Code Testing” page.

The CertifiGroup Ingress Protection class includes a array of accessories for testing articles that crave affidavit of these aegis characteristics. Some articles crave testing in the “Dust chamber”, others are accountable to tests performed by an “Oscillating aerosol tester”, “Drip box” or “Jet nozzle” analysis apparatus. Joshua Hunt, an NC State alum in automated engineering and arch of the IP lab talks about the challenges for manufacturers. “A aggregation ability architecture lights for the top of a building, but they’re absolutely not abiding if the enclosures are baptize or dust bound until we analysis them. If they’re traveling to bazaar these articles for acrid environments they charge to be sure, or failures after on can be disastrous”. This testing has to be done with the appropriate equipment. “Recently we had a chump appear to us because their antecedent testing lab, a nationally accepted artefact assurance lab, acclimated a battery in their bath for testing a lighting product”, Hunt said. “They were not assured this testing was done correctly”.

Some contempo CertifiGroup audience include: Toshiba, Parker Hannifin, Altman Lighting, Standard Motor Products. The articles activated ambit from baby USB drives to enclosures to ample 3 appearance automated motors. Some added audience with acclaimed names accept projects area there were testing failures, and they are in the action of re-design or modifications. Because of these situations, it is a acceptable business accommodation to get articles to the testing lab early, afore a analysis abortion can adjournment projects or shipments.

CertifiGroup aswell tests abounding categories of electrical articles for UL & CSA Certification, SEMI S-2, CE Marking for Europe. CertifiGroup aswell has appropriate programs for manufacturers and designers of “Green Energy” equipment, including solar, wind turbine, geothermal and more.

For added advice or to align a bout of our new Ingress Protection lab, appointment the CertifiGroup website (CertifiGroup.com) or alarm 800-422-1651.