Accredited testing body for Functional Safety, SGS-TÜV Saar, has encouraged vehicle manufacturers to book onto a one-day course in anticipation of new ISO standards for automotive electrical and electronic systems set to come into force in May 2018. With new safety standards for vehicle functions and their electronic components set to come into force in May 2018, manufacturers are being urged by SGS-TÜV Saar, the accredited testing body...

  On 23rd May 2017, SGS and HIKVISION signed a partnership to establish the 'SGS-HIKVISION Joint Lab' at the HIKVISION facility, in Hangzhou IoT Scientific Park. In addition, SGS has deployed its Safety Testing Automation Systems (STAS) at the laboratory and helped with accreditation as a IECEE Customer Testing Facility (CTF 2).

Consumers around the world are actively choosing environmentally friendly products. As a result manufacturers of electrical and electronic (EE) products need to show their products reduce the use of hazardous substances, improve resource and energy efficiency, and can be more easily recycled.

In its standard inspection for EEE – the Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection (BSMI) Certification Compliance Assessment - Taiwan has included its RoHS. This follows the publishing of CNS 15663 - Guidance on the reduction of the restricted chemical substances in electrical and electronic equipment (EEE), in July 2013. BSMI CNS 15663 set maximum concentration values (MCV) for six hazardous substances found in nine types of EEE.

With the demand for smart and renewable energy technologies increasing this has created a need for reliable, efficient and compact power converters. The sector now has more producers making a greater range of power converters with different specifications. For those using power converters in their products and installations, it has never been more important to make sure they are using the right power converter for the job.