TRaC in the US gets MET approval

Mark Heaven, CEO of TRaC, has just returned from a seminar held by US safety mark partner MET Labs. The seminar not only covered US and EU mandatory EMC and Safety but also included presentations by DfR Solutions on Reliability Prediction for Electronic Hardware, Core Source Technologies presented Thermal Management Principles at the System Level and Verizon spoke of the company's progress at becoming greener.

Mark presented papers on the EU ATEX directive and it's synergy with the US Hazloc and the IECEX approvals programmes reviewing the routes to compliance and technical requirements whilst highlighting how time to market can be minimised by engaging with TRaC and MET early on in the programme and ensuring a qualification document and test plan is drawn up to suite all intended markets and avoid duplication. The cost reduction that ATEX factory inspection by MET fully supported by TRaC in the USA was particularly well received.

Mark was also able to announce the recent collaboration with BSI in offering an approvals programme for equipment designed to operate in explosive atmosphere, BSI is a well known and trusted brand in the US certification market. TRaC are now providing the ATEX test services for BSI's ATEX Notified Body.

A second paper was given on global wireless approvals highlighting the convergence of worldwide regimes in some areas and the divergence in others. The presentation focused on the way in which TRaC's wealth of regulatory knowledge and worldwide contacts can deal with what most would find a complicated approval process, delivering global market access for TRaC and MET clients.

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