Sira Test and Certification announces an alliance to offer comprehensive service to customers manufacturing electrical equipment for use in hazardous areas
The new one-stop shop EMC testing service is offered by Sira as a result of its new alliance with Basingstoke-based Radio Frequency Investigation (RFI).
The new compliance alliance is designed to provide customers with both intrinsic safety and EMC testing from one point of contact.
The ATEX directive requires customers to undertake EMC testing.
As a result of this new change in legislation, Sira and RFI decided to formalise their two-year long partnership into a more permanent relationship.
David Lewis, managing director of Sira, explains: "We have had a longstanding working relationship with RFI which has worked successfully for both companies.
As a result of the increase in demand for both areas of testing, we have decided to make this a more permanent relationship for our customers' benefit." As more wireless devices become deployed in hazardous areas, the need for EMC testing will grow further and Sira will therefore continue to explore the joint testing of customers' products with RFI.
The objective is to offer manufacturers non-conflicting advice on product fixes, without compromising either the product's intrinsic safety or its EMC stability.
Sira is one of the UK's leading suppliers of conformity assessment solutions and is accredited by UKAS in all protection concepts (including flameproof, intrinsic safety, and pressurisation).
RFI supplies comprehensive regulatory and compliance services to the wireless and related technology industries around the world.
Specific areas of expertise include compliance management, regulatory investigations and applications, development and conformance testing.
The scope of RFI's UKAS accreditation covers both testing at its permanent laboratories and off-site locations.
RFI is a Notified Body for the RTTE Directive, a Competent Body for the EMC Directive, a Telecommunications Certification Body (TCB) under the US-EU Mutual Recognition Agreement, and a Bluetooth Qualification Body.
