Electrical 
Littleton

EMC Testing

Today, manufacturers face challenging and complex global requirements before introducing their new products into the market.  Bureau Veritas Littleton EMC test services cover all major requirements for electrical and electronics equipment, whether it is to be conducted in a lab environment or in situ (onsite EMC testing).  With our quick turnaround and a small lead time window, our experts are ready to provide reliable, quick, and cost-effective EMC test and GMA (global market access) services to help you access all your target markets. 

Wireless & Radio Frequency (RF)

Manufacturers who wish to sell wireless, telecom, licensed RF, and low-powered transmitters must have their products tested and certified by an accredited institute.  FCC/ISED, for EMC/Telecom compliance. 

Bureau Veritas Littleton is a top service provider of testing and certification services for Wireless and RF technology products for global markets.  Regardless of your product's category, our experts and state-of-the-art test facilities are ready to help you navigate complex worldwide wireless regulations. 

Many products and components must be exposed to the harshest operating environments before being released into the marketplace.  These include Vibration and Shock, Crash, Drop, and Freefall, Severe Temperature and Humidity Exposure, Thermal Shocks, Solar Radiation Exposure, Ingress Protection (Water, Ice, Snow, and Dust), Corrosion and Mixed/harmful Gas Exposure, and many more. 

Bureau Veritas Littleton performs Environmental Simulation, Performance, and Reliability testing on your product or components. We have expertise in automotive, medical, renewable energy, network systems, ITE, measurement, household, and various industrial-type equipment. Our testing laboratory delivers fast, reliable results to confirm your product meets client expectations and warranty requirements.  Depending on the products' specs, our environmental laboratory can perform all levels of ingress tests for water and dust. Flammability tests can also be performed here.  

Product Safety is undeniably one of the most important criteria for electrical and electronic products. The safety of the products and users, intended use conditions, and environment are some of the key elements of safety considerations. There are many global product safety regulations that manufacturers need to fulfill to demonstrate compliance when marketing their products.  Failure to meet, the manufacturer could face legal and business consequences.  Brand Image and Reputation that have been carefully nurtured for years can be tainted rapidly as a large recall or a customer injury suit can wipe out a multitude of merchant smart plays in one stroke.  

Bureau Veritas can help manufacturers to get their products smoothly into the global market. We have the required expertise, accreditations, global network, and tools to navigate our clients from the beginning to the end of the project. When third-party product safety testing and certification are required, which involves a highly experienced independent third party to scrutinize prototype designs or early production samples and screen out significant errors that even the most diligent design houses may miss.   

The Bureau Veritas Littleton Test laboratory is accredited to cover a variety of product categories: Laboratory Equipment (61010 series), Information Technology Equipment (62368 series), Renewable Energy Products (UL1741), Household Products (60335 series), Medical Electrical Devices (60601, 80601 series), Laser (60825-1, -2, FDA CDRH) and many more.  Our services include but are not limited to Construction Evaluation, Testing, Report Compilation, Pre-Compliance Reviews, On-Site Standard Training, Factory Inspections, and Certification. 

Cybersecurity has become a concern for the electrical and electronic devices which are connected to the internet. Those devices can communicate with other devices through the internet that can be a potential risk of data breach. The IoT (Internet of Things) system facilitates this data exchange with the collective network of connected devices. Currently the IoT system is embedded into Household, Medical, and Industrial Control equipment and devices. 

Bureau Veritas Littleton can help to address cyber security requirements called out mainly in ANSI UL 2900 and IEC 62443-x-x. 

Global Market Access (GMA) is determining applicable international regulations and verifying product compliance to those regulations.  This process can be complex and intimidating and the consequences of non-compliance can result in impounding product or denied access exposing manufacturers to potential field related and/or legal issues.

When considering GMA, it impacts almost every aspect of your product – Safety, EMC, Wireless, RoHS, Cybersecurity, and Energy & Environmental. And as products become more complex, so do the regulations. Bureau Veritas' dedicated GMA team will be your partner in this tedious process and undertake the burden of everything - from helping you with the applications, submitting applications, collect and review required documentation, and consistent communications/follow-up with foreign approval agencies. 

Bureau Veritas provides guidance on the compliance requirements and approval strategy for each country. With our multiple global lab locations and our global network, we perform product testing to the current applicable standards as well as new requirements.
 

• Bespoke solutions: Research is conducted on each product to confirm the correct data and reports are submitted for each country so that approvals can be granted efficiently,  
• Connection with regulators: Interface with governmental organizations and certification bodies covering 180 countries.
• Testing, Guidance, and Knowledge: Stay up to date with industry test standards, processes, and updates to confirm your device finds success in whatever market it is launched!
• Category expertise : GMA touches every product whether it’s ITE equipment, Medical, Industrial, or Automotive, BV can assist you with navigating these complex regulations which can often be product or technology specific – or a combination of both. 
• Certificate renewals: Let BV manage your portfolio of certificate renewals – whether certificates were issued by BV or another lab, our Program Management team can alleviate and manage this tedious responsibility. 

Your Passport to Worldwide Markets.  Our Certification umbrella offers the most comprehensive coverage for manufacturers to access global markets.  Our testing, certification, and global market access capability, supported by industry specialists’ enables electrical and electronic products manufacturers to gain fast access to new markets while staying ahead of the latest regulatory and technical developments. 

BV's Certification services include:

• CB Scheme
• NRTL Certification
• BV Mark – Safety 
• ASCA Program Certification 
• TCB / NB 
• ESTAR / NRCAN

This program was initiated to give customers more time and progress control over their product testing and evaluation by qualifying their test laboratories under the BVDAP program to support their desired relevant certification.  The overall program is based on a combination of ISO/IEC 17025 and Bureau Veritas’ Quality Process requirements and procedures. This program has four phases:  
 

BV’s engineering group will assess clients’ laboratories and confirm the suitability of each phase. BV will then walk clients through the process to ensure a smooth transition. 

Risk management has always been integral to device design and development activities. Still, it hasn't always been required to demonstrate to third-party assessment teams and laboratories during compliance evaluations to standards. 

Risk assessment is a tool used in medical devices, industrial control systems, machines, and process control equipment. The purpose is to reduce risk to an acceptable level through a standardized approach, such as Fault Tree, FMEA, etc.  

The publication of ISO 14971 for medical devices (and similar process standards for other industries) established a framework for risk analysis, evaluation, control, and review to apply during product design, development, and monitoring during production and post-production of the device or system. 

Risk management evaluations are often performed as part of the CB scheme and/or NRTL certification projects; however, preliminary compliance evaluations against published standard requirements may also be performed before "certification-ready" submissions. Risk management is a key step in determining your product's essential performance, which greatly impacts both the Safety and EMC testing of your product and helps define acceptable and unacceptable risks related to performance characteristics. 

Bureau Veritas Littleton performs risk management evaluations to show conformance to such standards, including ISO 14971, 60601-1, 61010-1, etc. 

Pre-compliance evaluations (or “design reviews”) are highly customizable projects often scoped based on your current needs or to discuss possible changes to your product design with standards experts. If you don't have an internal Regulatory or Compliance team or standards experts at your company, these may be right for you. 

Partner with our subject matter experts to discuss your pending engineering change orders and component obsolescence challenges to see how they may impact compliance with your end-product standards. 

Spend a day researching applicable safety standards, reviewing your electrical isolation strategies, identifying the minimum requirements for means of protection (MOOPs / MOPPs, basic, reinforced, etc.) between parts of your system, or drafting a critical components list with our engineers. The choice is yours, and we're ready to help! 

With subject matter experts in different standards and categories, BV Littleton can support design reviews in the product's development phases. The intent is to ensure that all applicable clauses of the standard comply if needed for the product's construction. This may ease the compliance path to the applicable standard(s).  

The team at Bureau Veritas Littleton is accredited to perform product safety, EMC, and environmental/performance evaluations to many of the standards within the 60601 and 80601 series.  

• A2LA: https://customer.a2la.org/index.cfm?event=directory.detail&labPID=918636DE-2B0F-4AA7-A545-4734BA04615F 
• IECEE's CB Scheme: https://www.iecee.org/members/cbtls/bureau-veritas-consumer-products-services-inc  
• OSHA (NRTL) Program: https://www.osha.gov/nationally-recognized-testing-laboratory-program/csl 
• US FDA's ASCA Program: https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/division-standards-and-conformity-assessment/asca-accredited-testing-laboratories 
  
   

Our team of qualified engineers act as independent third-party evaluators of medical electrical equipment to confirm compliance with national and international standards. This involves reviewing documentation such as risk management files, usability engineering analysis, software lifecycle development processes, user manuals, and product markings and labeling against standard requirements. Evaluations also encompass performing product construction reviews, confirming your insulation/isolation strategies, schematic and component review, developing and executing test plans on representative product samples, and report generation. 

From ophthalmoscopes to surgical robots, our ever-growing scope of medical standard testing capabilities and team of experts are here to help you achieve your regulatory and compliance goals. 

IEC/UL/CSA/EN 61010 series (NRTL, CB Scheme, and CE Informative report) covers a wide range of devices, including general laboratory devices, small to big control devices, IVD laboratory devices, pipettes, centrifuges, etc.  

Bureau Veritas Littleton can also review risk analysis as part of this series and help demonstrate the presumption of conformity to CE LVD. 

NEBS (Network Equipment Building Systems) testing covers a wide range of Electromagnetic, Safety, and Environmental testing.  The domestic and international standards/test procedures we provide expose telecom equipment to potential real-world phenomena to ensure it will operate as intended during Earthquakes, Extreme Cold & Heat / Humidity, Fires, etc. This will give manufacturers confidence when placing their product into a Central Office, Customer Premise, or Data Center such as:  Routers / Cable TV Systems, Modems, Servers, Central Office Optical Fiber Network Equipment, Digital & Analog Multiplexers, Data Terminal Equipment, Switching Systems, Backhaul Network Equipment, Customer Premise Equipment (ONTs and Set-top Boxes) 

Bureau Veritas’ NEBS testing services cover Electromagnetic Compatibility and Environmental testing. We have 25 years of hands-on engineering and testing experience with domestic and International Telecommunication testing standards and methods as follows:   

• GR-63-CORE - Physical Protection 
• GR-1089-CORE – Electromagnetic Compatibility & Electrical Safety 
• GR-950-CORE – Generic Requirements for Optical Network Systems 
• GR-487-CORE – Generic Requirements for Electronic Equipment Cabinets 
• GR-3108-CORE – Generic Requirements for Network Outside Plant Equipment 
• GR-3160-CORE – Generic Requirements for Telecommunications Data Center Equipment and COTS 
• VZ.TPR.9207 – TEEER Metric Quantification 
• ATT-TP-76200 – AT&T Network Equipment and Power Grounding, Environmental Design Requirements 
• ETSI EN 300 386 – Electromagnetic Compatibility for Telecommunication Network Equipment 
• ETSI EN 300 019 – Environmental Conditions / Tests for Telecommunications Equipment 

Common tests applied to Telecom / Network / NEBS type equipment: 

• Electromagnetic Compatibility  
• Lightning & Power Fault 
• Electrical Safety (NRTL) OSHA Accredited Nationally Recognized Testing Lab 
• Salt Fog 
• Vibration/Transportation/Earthquake 
• Ingress Protection (Water/Dust) 
• Fire Resistance / Needle Flame Testing 
• Heat / Cold / Humidity, Storage & Operational 
• Gaseous Contaminants / Hygroscopic Dust 
• Ultraviolet Resistance 
• Rain Intrusion 
• Ozone Exposure 
• Altitude 
• Acoustics Noise 

IEC/EN/UL/CSA 60335 series and additional UL/CSA standards (NRTL and CE Informative report): BV Littleton can test household appliances for the Europe and North America market. Some of the examples are but are not limited to fans, cooking appliances, coffee makers, chargers and power supplies, hair cleaners, irons, etc. BV Littleton can help demonstrate the presumption of conformity to CE LVD. 

UL 1741: Inverters, Converters, Controllers, and Interconnection System Equipment for Use with Distributed Energy Resources  

The safety standard for inverter and power converter equipment used in renewable energy systems, including solar, wind, and battery systems. The standard covers requirements for inverter and converter equipment intended to convert DC power from a renewable energy source into AC power that can be used by the electrical grid or other local electrical loads.  

Bureau Veritas offers industry leading experience team in US and across the globe to evaluate inverter, converter, and power conversion products certification.  

Bureau Veritas Littleton has an advanced inverter testing lab which can offer inverter testing including EMC/EMI and Environmental testing at one location.  

UL 1741 calls out IEEE 1547/IEEE 1547.1 tests required distributed energy resources to disconnect when grid experience instability or to support grid.  

UL 1741 sets out a series of safety tests, interoperability tests, EMC/EMI tests and performance requirements that inverters and converters must meet to ensure that they are safe and reliable for use in renewable energy systems.  

Below are safety standards in North America for inverter and related power conversion products, UL 1741 including supplement A and B (UL 1741SA and UL 1741SB) based on varied SRD in California, Hawaii etc. 

• IEEE 1547, 1547.1 
• CSA C22.2 No 107.1 
• California Energy Commission Inverter Efficiency testing 
• UL 1741 / NEC 690.12 - Rapid Shutdown 
• UL 3141Subject – PCS (Power Control System) Testing 
• UL 1699B - Arc Fault Protection 

Bureau Veritas offers type approval testing for certification for a wide range of wireless/loT equipment used across ISM, Aviation, Maritime, TV broadcast, and consumer electronics markets worldwide, including regions such as North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle east. This includes testing and certifications for: 

• Bluetooth 
• WIFI 
• Zigbee 
• Zee-Wave 
• RFID 
• Wireless sensors and Telemetry  
• Cellular (2G, 3G, 4G,5G)  
• Radar  
• Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)  
• Remote control devices and toys  
• Land mobile radios 

Bureau Veritas provides type approval testing applicable for electrical and electronic equipment intended for use in control, alarm, and protection systems onboard ships.  The testing demonstrates the ability to show compliance to the USCG and Class Societies Testing Standards and requirements:  
 

• Bureau Veritas Marine (NR467, Part C, Chapter 3, Section 6)  
• US Coast Guard Ballast Water Management Systems (46 CFR 162.060-30) 
• US Coast Guard Fire Detection Systems (46 CFR 161.002) 
• Det Norske Veritas (DNV-CG-0339)  
• American Bureau of Shipping (ABS Part 4) 
• Lloyds Register (Test Specification Number 1) 
• IACS E-10 (Revision 9) Base Standard used as basis for all class Societies Standards 
  
   

Bureau Veritas’ marine testing services cover both Electromagnetic Compatibility and Environmental testing.  We have 15 years of hands-on engineering and testing to domestic and International marine testing standards and methods, including:  
  

• Engine Vibration 
• Salt Mist 
• Flame Retardant 
• Heat / Cold / Humidity 
• Inclination 
• Power Supply Failure / Variations 
• Electromagnetic Compatibility 
• High Voltage / Insulation Resistance 
• Surge / Transients 

Equipment covered by BV Marine Testing: 
 

• ENGINE CONTROL SYSTEMS 
• FIRE DETECTION SYSTEMS 
• DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SYSTEMS 
• BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS 
• SENSORS 
• SMOKE DETECTORS & HEAT DETECTORS 
• TEMPERATURE, PRESSURE, and LEVEL TRANSMITTERS 
• DISPLAY MONITORS, VIDEO SCREENS TERMINALS 

IEC/UL/CSA/EN 62368-1 (NRTL, CB Scheme, and CE Informative report) 62368 is a combined version of the previous 60950 and 60065 standards. Most devices with IT or audio/video fall under this category, and Bureau Veritas Littleton can test this standard from small battery-powered devices to large 3-phase products. This is one of the most common standards used for testing component-level items. BV Littleton can also help demonstrate the presumption of conformity to CE LVD. 

EN IEC 60204-1 - BV Littleton has started testing machinery products under EN60204 and is in the process of expanding its scope to additional standards as well. BV can help demonstrate the presumption of conformity to certain parts of the machinery directive. 

Automotive components are exposed to some of the harshest operating environments.  Components are exposed to vibration and shock from road surfaces, crashes, slamming doors, and manufacturing assembly lines, severe temperatures in engine bays and form direct solar radiation, corrosion from road de-icing and combustion processes, and thermal shock from splashing water, ice, and snow. Over a lifetime, components can see thousands of thermal cycles.  Bureau Veritas has the capability to test your product for thermal shock, temperature cycling, vibration, shock, freefall, corrosion, and exposure to Mixed/Harmful Gases. 

• GMW3172 
• VW 80000 
• BMW-LV124 
• MBN LV124 
• ISO 16750 
• CS11982