EMC Testing

EMC and Safety testing of medical devices is, understandably, tightly regulated. At Cranage EMC and Safety, we are UKAS accredited (No. 1833) for the main medical testing standards, IEC/EN 60601-1 and IEC/EN 60601-1-2. These standards cover general requirements for basic safety and essential performance, and EMC. Using a UKAS accredited lab for your testing gives manufacturers assurance on accurate, reliable and consistent test procedures and results. We have a vast amount of experience in testing medical devices and previous projects range from prosthetic limbs, to patient monitors and imaging system displays. Get in touch with our specialist team to discuss your medical device EMC and safety testing requirements

This is equipment which measures, indicates, monitors, tests, controls, inspects or analyses materials or is used to prepare materials. This can be on either a stand alone basis or integrated into a manufacturing process. It may also include in vitro diagnostic (IVD) equipment and equipment used for educational purposes in Schools and Colleges.

In Europe, testing requirements for electrical equipment and machinery classified for use as industrial, light industrial or commercial are defined according to their function, where they are used and how they are connected to a power supply network.

Industrial equipment and electrical machines have all got one thing in common- the utilisation of electrical energy. The electrical wiring which makes this possible conducts and radiates electromagnetic energy much like the workings of a radio antenna which is capable of receiving and transmitting electromagnetic waves according to what it is connected to and the electrical charges contained within it. Therefore, unless a machine is a self-contained stand-alone product it doesn’t necessarily follow that it is incapable of producing harmful disturbances when installed on the users’ premises. To accommodate this possibility, conformity assessment procedures for EMC have been developed for ‘apparatus’ and ‘fixed installations’. It also enables the viability of Certificates of Incorporation in lieu of a CE Mark.