Audio/Visual

Eurofins E&E North America deliver timely and expert EMC and safety testing and certification of cutting-edge A/V products.

Take your multimedia products to the international marketplace by proving compliance to critical standards and achieve certification to the new IEC 62368-1 standard.

Today, Eurofins E&E is the responsive alternative testing laboratory for leading manufacturers. With an extensive range of services for Audio/Visual testing and certification, we can help you evaluate your product for all potential considerations, including 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 the new IEC 62368-1. We can also complete all additional evaluations from a single laboratory location, allowing you to test your product for EMC, environmental hardiness, energy efficiency, and a wealth of other testing considerations quickly and efficiently.

Ultimately, we provide you the ability to accelerate your A/V product’s journey to market through our streamlined testing process and extensive laboratory capabilities. Our experienced engineers and dedicated project coordinators will help guide your product throughout the testing process to help you meet requirements and prove that your products are eligible for market acceptance.

Audio/Visual Testing Capabilities

• UL 62368-1 Audio, 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

Multimedia Testing Capabilities

With the introduction of the new IEC 62368-1 standard for multimedia equipment, audio/visual equipment currently certified to the legacy IEC 60065-1 standard will be required to undergo a re-evaluation to ensure continued compliance to the new 62368 standard.

The IEC 62368-1 standard also introduces significant changes in product classification. Audio/Visual and Internet Technology Equipment (ITE), otherwise known as the OFF and TRON product categories, will now be re-categorized into the ITAV classification that will encompass all existing ITE and Audio/Visual equipment.

Eurofins E&E can perform all relevant compliance evaluations to complete the 62368-1 certification for global market access. Our multimedia testing capabilities include:

• IEC 62368-1
• UL 62368-1
• CSA 62368-1
• EN 55032
• IEC 62133-1
• IEC 62133-2

What is IEC 62368-1?

The 62368-1 standard is the new unified Audio/Visual (A/V) and Internet Technology Equipment (ITE) standard. It will replace the 60065 and 60950-1 standards and introduces 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.

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