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Element is connecting technologies with its modern automotive EMC testing facility. Element’s automotive EMC testing and certification services ensure your automotive electrical components, systems, and sub-assemblies meet electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) requirements for E-Mark certification and access global markets quickly, safely, and confidently.

With the introduction of this advanced functionality, great care now has to be taken during the testing and certification process to ensure that the wired, wireless, and other smart technologies that underpin it do not conflict with one another and that passenger safety is assured at all times.

Elements' vast experience in both automotive testing and development, their extensive knowledge of wired and wireless technologies ideally suited as partners to support all automotive OEMs as they continue to enhance their existing platforms with ever-increasing levels of functionality, and also to help them successfully bring their next generation of autonomous, self-drive vehicles to market.

As a Technical Service with the Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA), Element can conduct Automotive EMC testing and validation of both whole vehicles and their sub-assemblies for commercial, civilian, industrial and military vehicles to support E- Mark certification including UNECE R10, CISPR 12/25, ISO 11452, ISO 11451 and other specific and military standards.

The following are their automotive EMC services:

• Whole vehicle EMC testing
• Electronic Sub-Assemblies (ESAs) testing
• BCI (Bulk Current Injection) Immunity
• Conducted Emissions (CE) and Radiated Emissions (RE)
• RF Radiated Immunity
• Electrostatic Discharge (ESD)
• Vehicular Transient Testing
• Testing in ALSE (Absorber Lined Shielded Enclosure) environment
• SAE J1113 Series testing
• E-Mark testing
• Specialized vehicle equipment testing including agricultural vehicles

Element’s Automotive EMC testing simulates the real-world scenarios in which the products operate. Their team of experts performs a worst-case assessment of equipment, vehicles and ESAs to ensure that it is being tested thoroughly to the highest standards required by the regulatory authorities and vehicle OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers). 

Their automotive EMC testing methods include:

• Internal Combustion Engine (ICE)
• BEV (Battery Electric Vehicles)
• RES (rechargeable electronic systems)
• Wireless power transfer (WPT)
• Whole vehicles and components and sub-assemblies to support any of the above

Element's testing equipment includes large vehicle chambers and rolling roads with forced air cooling and exhaust extraction, and we provide monitoring of statutory vehicle data. 

Whole vehicle EMC testing capabilities 

With over 30 years of experience in testing vehicles and large systems, they interrogate the vehicle to ensure functionality, linking into CAN bus and integrated systems and visually monitor critical functions. 

UNECE R10 for E–Mark certification 

They have the expertise, testing infrastructure and support equipment to perform testing in compliance with UNECE R10 for E-Mark certification to ensure that the products get to national and international markets quickly and effectively, linking their testing with Technical Service capabilities.

Access to professional expertise 

With their experience of testing hundreds of automotive products, they have the knowledge to help you identify the relevant automotive tests for the products and will work to the specific project requirements at every stage of testing to ensure the swiftest route to compliance. 

Automotive EMC standards that they test:

• CISPR 12/25
• ISO 11452-1/2
• ISO 7637
• UNECE R10
• EN 12895
• IEC 61851-21-1/2
• ISO 13309
• OEM standards

They perform Automotive EMC testing to a number of standards against OEM vehicle manufacturer specifications from one of their large, extensively equipped indoor EMC EMI testing laboratories in the US and the UK.

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