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Practical strategy, hands-on support, and fractional leadership to get your products certified, built right, and shipped worldwide and on-time
Product Compliance requirements vary by country, product type and function, and getting them wrong can mean blocked shipments, failed audits or recalls. Quality issues can cost companies in repair costs, harm to brand, and having to implement costly redesigns & fixes. We offer time-tested strategies to help you ship compliant and quality products, avoiding costly mistakes along the way.
Simplified Overview of Product Compliance
Product Safety: Construction and design requirements meant to prevent physical harm — electric shock, fire, mechanical injury — plus the testing needed to prove your product meets those requirements before it reaches a customer.
EMC & Radio: If your product uses electricity or wireless communication, it has to avoid interfering with other devices (EMC) and, if it transmits a signal, it needs radio-specific certification (FCC, CE RED, Japan's Radio Law, etc.).
Chemical & Environmental: Restrictions on hazardous substances in your product's materials — RoHS and REACH in the EU, Prop 65 in California, and similar rules in other markets — plus environmental requirements like WEEE (product take-back/recycling) in Europe.
Other Requirements: Depending on your product and market, this can include cybersecurity requirements for connected devices (a fast-growing area, especially in the EU), labeling and documentation rules, and packaging requirements.
Most products touch more than one of these at once. And meeting the requirements once isn’t enough. A quality system keeps every production run compliant through supplier controls, inspections and corrective actions.
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Meet Kevin Eldridge
Kevin Eldridge has 16+ years of experience in product compliance and quality, from testing products at TÜV Rheinland, to getting products certified at Philips Color Kinetics, and most recently served as Director of Quality & Compliance at Yamaha Guitar Group (Line 6, Ampeg).
He has worked on both sides of the test lab and has run quality and compliance programs from the inside. Today he helps hardware companies as a hands-on consultant or as their fractional quality and compliance lead.
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