Introduction Navigating the CE Mark process can be a challenge for both startups and experienced manufacturers alike. This article is a guide for hardware manufacturers who want to do all the right things to legally get their product into Europe. Here’s what we’re going to cover: The typical CE Marking process for electronic equipment Outline of the most common … [Read more...]
About the Author
Andy Eadie
Andy is the founder and lead instructor at EMC FastPass. Andy’s background is in hardware design engineering, working for 10 years as a hardware design engineer. He worked his way up to senior hardware design engineer at Panasonic by the age of 23 and has since worked for consultancies in the audio, medical and consumer industries. In 2010 he founded and constructed an FCC and Industry Canada listed EMC test lab where he performed emissions and immunity tests for many intentional and unintentional radiating devices. He is the author of the successful book “Global Certifications for Makers and Hardware Startups” and editor of “Getting EMC Design Right First Time” as well as the creator of several online training courses. Andy’s passions are in new technology and sports such as volleyball, rock climbing, hiking, karate and skiing. You can reach Andy at andy@emcfastpass.com.
What is an EMC Design Review?
What is an EMC Design Review?Most hardware engineers are used to doing functional design reviews on their circuit boards and systems before pressing the 'go' button for manufacturing. In the engineering teams I've worked with, that type of design review has usually taken the form of standing around a board room table with a red pen and the largest print outs of the schematics … [Read more...]
Avoid the Most Common Failures with These 7 Essential EMC Design Rules
A reader recently asked me what the top design rules were that they could implement on their product to maximize the chances of passing FCC and CE testing. There’s no doubt that there are countless ways to fail emissions and immunity tests, but a pattern of failure modes did emerge at my EMC lab.Regardless of the type of product I was testing, be it medical, industrial, … [Read more...]
