VDE is directly involved in the German national standards, is Europe's most experienced enjoys a high reputation in the world of one of the certification body. It every year for nearly 2200 German companies and 2700 customers of other countries to complete a total of 18000 certification program. So far dominated in nearly 50 countries around the world get VDE mark 200000 kinds of electrical products.
Located in Offenbach, Germany VDE Certification Testing Institute (VDE Testing and Certification Institute) is the German association of electrical engineers (Verband sell Elektrotechniker, VDE) belongs to a research Institute, founded in 1893. As a neutral, independent institutions, VDE laboratory basis for the application, in accordance with the German VDE standard national or European EN standards, or IEC international electrotechnical commission standard inspection and certification of electrical products. In many countries, VDE certification marks even more famous than the country's certification marks, especially by importers and exporters recognized and valued.
In our country, the direction of the electrical products export diversification, importers of Europe, Australia, southeast Asia and other areas, which are put forward such as GS (DE), BEAB (English), IMQ (meaning) and other safety certification and CE marking requirements. And most of the whole machine factory in the process of certification and the division of these requirements, their electrical safety parts supplier to ensure with a high level of security authentication marks, it is also more and more spare parts manufacturing enterprises want to get the outside cause of VDE mark.
Product range
Household appliances
Lamps and lanterns, LED and parts of lamps and lanterns
Consumer electronics and IT products
Electric tools and garden tools
Medical apparatus and instruments
toy
The battery
Photovoltaic technology
A fuel cell
Electric cars, automotive electronics
Smart meters
Wire and cable
Electrical and electronic components
Transformer and switch power supply
Installation technology
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Service scope
safety
Electromagnetic compatibility
The chemical testing and analysis
Practical test
Product life/reliability test
Life cycle analysis, energy efficiency test
Acoustic/noise testing
Insulation materials and environmental test
Software evaluation
VDE specifications
The factory audit
The inspection service
Quality management system audit
International certification services
Training and technical support services
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The certification process
1 to submit formal application Form19 and structure parameter list - is one of the important documents for VDE,
2 application confirmation - VDE after receiving the formal application form and structure parameter list, and send the invoice, such as factory inspection questionnaire data.
3 - directly or indirectly from VDE application is confirmed, will inform the specific requirements and their test directly on the basis of relevant standards. The sample after the completion of the test required by standard or sent to the relevant domestic lab forecast. Can by express mail to send a sample is safe, accurate to VDE for testing.
1) once the test project, the applicant will be notified in the first place.
2) test results may also have flaws. Some light defect, communicate with VDE certification bodies, as long as a little correction, don't have to, directly or indirectly from VDE to certification.
3) when there is important defect detection results, certification bodies will explore the cause of the failure and the applicant. If necessary please VDE test failure sample sent back, for reference analysis. After waiting for sample modification heavy inspection formalities, such as to deliver within six months, is a lot of the cost of the retest will be preferential.
4 VDE global Service Branch such as suzhou, guangzhou Branch, [1] is able to provide engineering services, improve the passing rate of the test.
5 factory inspection - points certification factory audit before and after the certification or irregular supervision and review. Before factory inspection, certification bodies sent experts to assist factory to production facilities, experimental equipment, measurement, and the whole quality system checking against VDE requirements. Assist factory discussion corrective actions as soon as possible and the rapid implementation until qualified.
6 certification - on the premise of factory inspection passed, if the sample test qualified, VDE results will inform the applicant, VDE certificates will be issued soon.
To disclose the information
1. The product description
2. Type difference
3. The circuit diagram
4. The German manual
5. List of parts and material
6. CB test report
7. Other required materials
Factory audit
(1) the certification before factory audit
Factory audit before the certification is to prove the authentication products in line with expectations of production. For the first time to apply for, if the manufacturer's production facilities haven't review, manufacturers must carry out factory audit before the certification. Certification institution to the applicants to distribute the questionnaire (table CIG 022, the first part B), manufacturers should fill in the questionnaire. Questionnaires including some problems for the applicant, such as address, contact person, staff number, product variety, materials, components and other parts, become a part of the product information of enterprise quality system, which factory tested and so on. VDE factory audit department as soon as we receive the questionnaire, to evaluate it, and contact the manufacturer to arrange the certification before the factory audit schedule. If other CCA has to carry out a factory inspection related categories products, and manufacturers will review related to VDE audit, VDE may accept the review.
(2) the certification after factory audit
Two times a year, VDE, in principle, factory audit. Factory audit mainly review the content of the product and the consistency of the sample, but also at the same time also to review the relevant testing procedures and records, measuring quality management files.
To obtain
In general, the desire to carry out the VDE certification type approval test has two ways: the first is the enterprise directly to the VDE consulting and complete the application process, and in accordance with the VDE test engineer
For mailing a number of test samples to Germany, item by item according to the German VDE standard detection, and according to the total time spent by the German VDE test workload engineers work price to pay for all testing. Second way is first to domestic enterprises has good relationship with VDE CB laboratory put forward "CB test" of the application, and then through the CB test report to VDE certification model experiment report. We know that the CB test certificate is the international electrotechnical commission electrical product safety certification organization (IECEE) set by the certification body board (CCB) in a unified, by a country within the IECEE - CCN approved a certificate issued by the certification body (CB test certificate in China, CCEE certified units), together with the attached test report is used to notify the certification bodies in other countries, some electrical products of samples has been carried out in accordance with the unified standard of IEC and passed the test. By more than 30 countries in the world joined the CB system, VDE is also a member of CB laboratory, so the CB test report issued to us basically can accept directly, so the main project of test can be done at home. Only if there are few experimental projects such as the German DIN standards and IEC standards exist between national differences, VDE engineer will inform the agent to send samples of individual difference experiment project, can be carried out on the test results after comprehensive confirmation.
Two ways of comparison, it is not hard to see, the first way to apply for VDE for overseas test of enterprise to the understanding of the whole experiment is hard, together with the possibility of a general, through the VDE test are relatively small, so you need to reciprocating contact, send samples to abroad many times, project cycle is difficult to control. In addition, Germany VDE technical personnel of the unit labor cost is higher than domestic technical personnel or many, so the total cost may be higher. And the second way seems to be divided into domestic testing abroad added two stage, actually is to use the home station to the product technical condition relatively familiar with local advantages, and found that the problem can be timely communication to improve, and poor artificial prices at home and abroad all the favorable conditions. Through some actual operation of the project, practice has proved that using CB test report's bid to host the VDE certification, can be said to be a shortcut to save time and economic.