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APPROVAL AND CONSULTANCY SERVICES
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Approvals & Consultancy Services
The Panasonic Testing Centre approval & consultancy services include a wide range of activities applicable to your products.
Consumer & Household Products
To ensure the safe operation of apparatus in households it is mandatory this devices comply to essential health and safety requirements of product safety and EMC standards.
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- arrangement and coordination of approvals at European testing laboratories for national and European application (Safety, EMC, X-Ray)
- review and submission of application & approval documents
- negotiations with authorities and test institutes
- analyzis of product safety test results
- support of manufacturers and sales representatives on regulatory concerns
- integrated technical Competent Body issuing technical reports and certificates of conformity
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Industrial Products & Machinery
Under the scope of EC Machinery Directive it is recommended machinery and installations of machinery must comply with the essential health and safety requirements, CE marking shall be attached to the product and the equipment must be accompanied by Declaration of Conformity. These requirements have to be fulfilled at time of placing on the market and/or putting into service in European market.
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- testing for compliance to EC Directives essential health & safety requirements and European harmonized standards. Support for appropriate transpostion
- conformity assessment of machinery and installations
- carrying out the hazard analyzis and risk assessment
- preparation of Declaration of Conformity, technical construction file and critical parts lists
- coordination of type approvals and Annex IV testings
- examination of documentation with reference to transposition of product safety standards and/or translation of instructions into local languages
- negotiations with authorities and testing institutes for transpositions and interpretations of productsafety standards
- development of adequate mechanical & optical safetyconcepts and guardings. Manufacturing and carrying out the necessary adoptions on site
- analyzis of soundlevels and its sources. Working out and/or carrying out of soundreducing measures. Providing the necessary soundabsorbing materials
- Testing the compliance of EMC immunity & emission standards at accredited laboratory and on-site
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Medical Devices
Medical Devices may only be allowed freedom of movement within the European Economic Area if they satisfy the essential requirements of Medical Device Directive. The essential requirements give particular consideration to the safety, the technical performance and the medical performance of a medical device.
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- arrangement and coordination of approval tests
- information about valid standards and regulations
- support for conformity assessment and classification
- translation of documentation into local languages
- registration to informationsystem for medical devices
- acting as official safety responsible for Medical Devices on demand of manufacturers for Germany according to German Medical Devices Act §31 (registration to DIMDI)
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Car Accessories
Removing the restrictions of trade between the EU memberstates requires type approval for automobiles and other road vehicles including all systems, components and independent technical parts. To outline the requirements there have been adopted various directives by EC commission.
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- arrangement and coordination of approvals at European testing laboratories for national and European application (ECE, KBA, ...)
- review and submission of application & approval documents
- negotiations with authorities and test institutes
- analyzis of EMC measurement protocols and specific product related test results
- support of manufacturers and sales representatives on regulatory concerns
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Health and Safety at Works
In addition to ensuring the products you manufacture are safe.You have a duty to ensure the safety of the equipment you use. The EC Directive 89/655/EEC defines „the minimum health and safety requirements for the use of work equipment by workers at work“.
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- consultation and support for carrying out a risk assessment of all work equipment
- assistance for undertaking the necessary measures
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Directives, Standards, Regulations
Countinuously EC Directives, European & National Standards and technical regulations are issued and/or ammended. It is important to update these references without interruption.
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- information about released national, European and international directives, transpositions and standards
- providing the product concerned documents on demand
- analyzis of expert opinions and statements concerned applications and transpositions
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Information Activities
To comply with the valid essential requirements makes it necessary for you always to be up-to-date and to be well informed about the actual market situation for your products.
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- to collect, review and summarize legal and public informations
- providing an international information database via internet
- negotiations with authorities and testing institutes for individual concerns
- translation of informations into national languages on demand
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Miscellaneous
Industrial products placed on the European market have to comply to legal requirements, such as EC Directives, harmonized standards and regulations. Additionally it is very important the products fulfill the market requests which are specified by the customers. Especially the ease of use, the quality of the product same as the economical and health aspects are obligations for manufacturers of industrial products.
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| consultation, support and supply of materials for several issues concerned, as there are Ergonomics, Sound Level, ESD, Laser, SafetyParts Supply, Coordination, and others. We are ready to investigate and act on your inquiries. |
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