Compliance Testing for Electronic Devices 

Compliance testing verifies that an electronic product meets specific regulatory, safety, environmental, and performance standards required for commercial distribution. Common requirements include:

• EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility): Ensures your device doesn’t emit or react to harmful interference
  
  

• Electrical Safety: Confirms that your product won’t cause injury, shock, or fire
  
  

• Radio and Wireless Protocols: Validates correct behavior of GSM, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc.
  
  

• Environmental Directives: Ensures materials and manufacturing comply with RoHS, REACH, or similar
  
  

• Labeling & Documentation: Verifies the presence of proper warnings, symbols, and conformity marks
  
  

While the final certification is issued by authorized laboratories, pre-compliance testing helps catch issues early—when they’re easier and cheaper to fix.

For startups, research teams, and OEMs developing new hardware, compliance is often a late-stage blocker. Many products fail their first formal certification attempt due to:

• EMI emissions

• Inadequate insulation or spacing

• Poor enclosure grounding

• Incomplete documentation

• Material sourcing non-conformity
  
  

At ProtoLab SRL, we help you avoid these common pitfalls by offering design-level guidance and technical pre-checks during prototyping and small-batch builds.

Before you submit your device to a certification lab, we help you review:

• PCB layout for high-frequency traces and return paths

• Power supply filtering and transient protection

• Connector spacing and insulation barriers

• Use of certified wireless modules or transceivers

• Selection of compliant materials (e.g., RoHS-conformant components)

• Documentation requirements (datasheets, labels, declarations of conformity)
  
  

This phase helps eliminate technical risks that could lead to test failures, additional lab costs, or re-spins.

For startups, research teams, and OEMs developing new hardware, compliance is often a late-stage blocker. Many products fail their first formal certification attempt due to:

• EMI emissions

• Inadequate insulation or spacing

• Poor enclosure grounding

• Incomplete documentation

• Material sourcing non-conformity
  
  

At ProtoLab SRL, we help you avoid these common pitfalls by offering design-level guidance and technical pre-checks during prototyping and small-batch builds.