Audio Visual Equipment Testing

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Audio Visual Equipment Testing

AV product manufacturers around the world are faced with numerous challenges in bringing innovative, compliant products to market. When production schedules, reduced risk, and overall profitability are important to your success you need a testing and certification provider that is always a partner and never a barrier.

Eurofins MET Labs extensive range of services for Audio/Visual testing and certification can help you get and keep your product in market via product safety certification, environmental performance verification, FCC certification for wireless A/V equipment, and all necessary EMC evaluations.

Our laboratory capabilities allow us to test products to nearly any multimedia product safety standard, including IEC 62368-1. We can also complete all additional evaluations from a single laboratory location.

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Why Eurofins MET Labs?

The Recognized MET Certification Mark: We were the catalyst that drove the very creation of OSHA’s NRTL program. More than 35 years ago, we became the first NRTL and opened the market to give you a choice in testing providers. Our MET Mark is trusted and recognized for U.S. product safety compliance needs.

Speed and Service: Our labs are at your service, and optimized like no other to deliver service on your timeline without long queue times. Our unrivaled MetTRAK portal offers end-to-end visibility on project status and real-time, optional text message updates.

Customer-Focused, Responsive Investments: We are part of Eurofins, the world’s largest laboratory network. We have a track record for unparalleled investment in building new labs in emerging markets and establishing new state of the art equipment and capabilities in response to demand. We strive to stay a step ahead and be everywhere you need us to be.

Audio/Visual Testing Capabilities »

We test and /or certify Audio/Visual equipment to:

- UL 62368-1Audio, Video and IT equipment
- UL 60065-1 Audio, Video and Similar Electronic Apparatus
- CSA 60065-1 Audio, Video and Similar Electronic Apparatus
- IEC 60065-1 Audio, Video and Similar Electronic Apparatus
- EN 60065-1 Audio, Video and Similar Electronic Apparatus
- UL 813 Commercial Audio Equipment
- UL 1419 Professional Video and Audio Equipment
- UL 1492 Audio-Video Products and Accessories
- IEC 62368-1 Audio, Video and IT equipment
- CSA 62368-1 Audio, Video and IT equipment
- EN 55032 Multimedia Equipment (MME)
- IEC 62133-1 Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries
- IEC 62133-2 Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries

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Robust Services and Expertise to Meet Your Needs »

With more than 60 years of product safety expertise, we help you navigate growing complexities in product safety compliance from testing and certification to global market access.

MET Certification and Global Market Access: The Eurofins MET product safety certification mark is recognized to demonstrate a product meets mandated compliance requirements for applicable national safety standards in the U.S. We are the first OSHA-recognized NRTL (Nationally Recognized Testing Lab). We are also a CB (Certification Body) for the SCC (Standards Council of Canada), and a CAB (Conformity Assessment Body) & CBTL under the IECEE CB Scheme. We can perform all relevant compliance evaluations to complete the 62368-1 certification for global market access for AV Equipment.

Electromagnetic Compatibility Testing (EMC): We evaluate your products and systems to any number of electromagnetic conditions in our state-of-the-art EMC labs helping you bring your product from development to end use faster and more cost-effectively.

Energy Star Testing: We perform energy efficiency testing for Natural Resources Canada, California Energy Commission, and EU Ecodesign Directive.

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What is IEC 62368-1?

The 62368-1 standard is the new unified Audio/Visual (A/V) and Internet Technology Equipment (ITE) standard. It replaced the 60065 and 60950-1 standards and introduced a new Hazard Based Safety Engineering methodology for avoiding risks/hazards associated with product design. With the new 62368-1 standard, manufacturers will be required to reconsider how they approach hazard mitigation through safeguards in multiple levels of product development, construction and end-use.

Hazards are identified in three categories of energy sources, requiring differing levels of safeguards to achieve compliance. These hazards must be mitigated to an acceptable risk level before a product will be compliant with the new 62368 standard, according to the new Hazard Based Safety Engineering process.

With new, technology-independent methodology, manufacturers are able to mitigate hazards without the “prescriptive” process found in 60065 and 60950-1. This means that manufacturers are able to design simpler products to achieve product safety compliance, lowering costs associated with production, design, and the entire product life-cycle.

If I’m compliant to 60065/60950, do I still need to test to 62368?
It is important for manufacturers to know that 62368 is not a parallel to 60065 and 60950. Products that are currently compliant to the legacy standards cannot be assumed to be compliant to 62368. These products will require an extensive review of design elements and components to ensure compliance or determine what changes must be made.

Audio Visual Equipment Testing

Science. Speed. Service: Product Safety, Energy Star, and EMC Testing and Certification Trusted for Cutting Edge AV products Worldwide