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Element, a leading company with over three decades of experience, has played a crucial role in helping businesses worldwide achieve compliance with EMC commercial testing standards and regulations. With its extensive expertise, Element has assisted companies in nearly 200 countries to successfully export and sell their electrical and electronic commercial products across the globe. By ensuring adherence to international standards, Element has emerged as a trusted partner in the global market, enabling companies to expand their reach and meet regulatory requirements with ease.

Why is EMC commercial testing important?  

How does a manufacturer know if their product is going to interfere with other electrical equipment, or be interfered with, when used in its intended environment? Electromagnetic Interference is a very common occurrence, which can lead to product malfunctioning or not performing as its users expects, or products/adjacent products becoming unsafe.

The best practice way to ensure that products are not susceptible to these common disturbances, and will not cause such interference, as well as to make sure that the products meets the relevant legislative requirements, is to EMC test the products. 

How is an EMC commercial test conducted?  

In order to test products or devices to ensure its emissions are below the permitted levels and that its performance remains unaffected when exposed to electromagnetic interference (EMI) and disturbances it is typical that for several of the tests are conducted in anechoic or semi-anechoic test chambers. These are special rooms (sophisticated Faraday cages) lined with tiles and/or absorbers that create a ‘clean’ environment within with respect to Electromagnetic (EM) or Radio Frequency (RF) interference.

For the remaining susceptibility tests, these can be conducted in a somewhat less complex shielded room. These special environments, along with a vast array of specialist and appropriately calibrated test equipment (and support equipment for monitoring and/or controlling the products as well as supporting any wireless functionality whilst in the test chamber), enable the series of different emissions and immunity tests to be conducted. 

Element’s EMC commercial testing capabilities include:

• Conducted & radiated electromagnetic susceptibility/immunity testing
• Conducted & radiated electromagnetic emissions testing
• ESD (Electrostatic Discharge) testing
• EMC testing for E/e-marking on sub-assemblies and whole vehicles
• On-site EMC surveys/testing
• EMC pre-compliance testing 
• Testing to EN55011/CISPR 11 standards
• International IECEE CB scheme 
• IEC/EN 60601 series
• IEC/EN 61326 series
• EN 50121
• EN 55032/35 and CISPR 32/35
• Testing to LVD (Low Voltage Directive), MDD (Medical Device Directive), MD (Machinery Directive), and RED (Radio Equipment Directive) 

Products tested and certified by Element

Element’s EMC laboratories offer market-leading capacity for testing and certifying electrical devices for a diverse range of commercial products, including:

• IT and office equipment
• Multimedia and audio-visual equipment
• Telecommunications equipment
• Radio communications equipment
• Medical devices
• Laboratory, test and measurement, and control equipment
• Automotive equipment (including agricultural equipment)
• Railway equipment
• Marine equipment
• Consumer electronics

Global market access (GMA)

Element’s GMA experts provide a wide variety of testing and certification services to ensure worldwide market access for commercial products. This includes CE marking for Europe, FCC for North America, ICES for Canada, RCM for Australia/New Zealand, and VCCI for Japan. 

Element helps develop customized test plans and speeds up commercial products' international market launch.  

Advice and guidance 

Element’s EMC test engineers offer support and guidance at early stages of product development. Early identification of regulatory EMC requirements for commercial products reduces the number of tests prior to certification.

The Element advantage

Element's EMC testing laboratories in the US and UK are accredited and approved by NVLAP, A2LA, and UKAS, as well as ISO 9001:2008. The company is also a Notified Body in respect to the EMC Directive, and an Approved Body in respect to the UK EMC Regulation.

Element’s state-of-the-art EMC testing facilities are equipped with fully anechoic, semi anechoic and reverberation chambers as well as HIRF (High Intensity Radiated Field), and can cater for anything from small implantable devices to heavy machinery and vehicles. The company also offers on-site testing services.

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