EMC testing is an expensive and time-consuming process, and if you fail initial tests it can lead to costly mistakes and having to go back to the drawing board on your new electronic device. Therefore, to prevent, or rather reduce the risk of failure, you and your company can invest in pre-compliance testing. While it may sound like your throwing more money down the drain, pre-compliance testing offers several benefits to companies and new product designs.
- Lowers Overall Costs
The normal process of having multiple testing phases only increases costs. Also, while these phases help to create a functional product, if the end result is deemed noncompliant, then you are forced to go through the process all over again, thereby wasting both time and money. In addition to having to potentially redesign your product, any launch date or marketing plans are postponed until the revitalized product makes its way through the testing phases. Pre-testing for EMC guidelines can reduce the time and expense of product development.
- Offers Early Problem Detection
Early EMC Regulation Testing also allows you to detect problems early, before sending a prototype out to accredited labs. By pre-testing devices, you are able to pinpoint potential problems and address your concerns before product submission.
- Addresses Engineering and Design Issues
There is a tendency to both overdesign or under-design projects and overengineer or under-engineer. This likely occurs because of a misunderstanding of federal guidelines on consumer products. Therefore, pre-testing can illuminate these issues before submission and allow your team to address these concerns before being deemed noncompliant.
- Helps to Prepare for Compliance Certification
Pre-testing can help prepare and push designers toward meeting the standards of EMC regulations. The pre-testing phase of development is to put your product through the types of expected testing it will undergo in the actual test. Therefore, a pretest can help you determine if a product is ready for submission to an accredited lab or not. While pre-testing cannot guarantee compliance, it does offer a dependable third-party perspective.
EMC testing is the end of an already expensive process, but if your product is judged as noncompliant, then your back to the drawing board, increasing costs and furthering frustration in your concept. Pre-testing enables you to get a sneak peek at the potential conclusion of an EMC test, which offers valuable insight into the design process while simultaneously helping you to keep costs down and to stay on track to meet potential deadlines.
