Your Industry

Automotive, Marine & Rail

As a manufacturer, retailer or importer of products used in automotive and rail environments, Bureau Veritas Electrical is your ideal partner to help you become first to market with compliant products and a compliant organization.

Our competences

• Electrotechnical
• Electronics
• Functional safety 
• EMC 
• Mechanical
• Electrostatics
• ATEX
• Physical and Chemical
• Corrosion
• Materials

Qualify your products according to standards that are specific to your industry 

Our testing equipment and expertise allow us to assist you all along your product qualification process, according to standards and regulations that are applicable to your business sector.

Our laboratories are ISO 17025 accredited and grant you a global service benefit.

• A global approach for testing
• A dedicated project structure
• A team of experts to satisfy your needs

Drive your teams all along the product life cycle

Our multidisciplinary experts provide you with solutions and recommendations specific to your needs and requirements, all along the product life cycle (development, qualification, end of life).

Access to international markets

We assess and certify the conformity of your products to European and international regulations, or according to specific standards or specifications.

We also deliver certificates and certification marks allowing access to national and international markets.

Train your teams

We listen to each of your needs and can provide you with experts able to train you and give you specific knowledge through training sessions, either general (catalogue) or customized (on-site).

Your local contact points

• France
• United Kingdom

Why Bureau Veritas Electrical

• Location – Bureau Veritas was established in 1828 and has in excess of 23,000 employees located in 140 countries. We have access to 5,000 employees in 40 countries worldwide within the Bureau Veritas Consumer Products Service group with electrical focussed office and laboratory locations in USA, France, Germany, UK, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
• Knowledge - Access to our dedicated information resource center tracking the electrical legislative developments and advising on its impact
• Capability - Access to our comprehensive accredited EMC, Safety and Environmental Test facilities in all three continents
• Knowledge - Future legislation consultants who can advise on the impact of legislation as it develops
• Price – With offices and facilities all over the world, we can offer incredibly competitive rates for our services

Bureau Veritas Electrical Services

Testing

Environmental Stresses

• Mechanical testing : vibrations, chocks, shakes
• Climatic testing : humidity, rain, temperature, temperature shocks, sun, dust, saline mist, corrosion
• Combined mechanical / climatic testing
• Accelerated ageing testing

Electromagnetic Compatibility

• Measures for radiated and conducted emissions
• Immunity assessment to radiated and conducted emissions

Electrical Testing

• Electrical testing
• Testing on power supplies
• Testing on cables and other equipment (dielectric, traction, fire resistance)

Static Electricity

• Measures for resistors, and decreasing time frame related to charge or potential
• Measures for charge accumulation of a material or equipment

Certification

Access to certifications and international marks (regulatory or voluntary)

CE Marking / European Directives

• LVD
• EMC
• R&TTE
• Machine
• Pressure Equipment 
• ATEX...
• Other European Directives
• RoHS/WEEE
• VHU, ...

International marks - access through the CB Scheme and our numerous bilateral recognition agreements

• FCC, CSA (USA and Canada)
• GOST-R
• CQC-CCC
• BSMI
• C-TICK
• NOM
• IRAM
• PSE, VCCI

Consulting

Regulatory studies

• Depending on your product type, we analyse the regulatory issue linked to their exports.
• We provide you with a regulatory frame your products have to fit with.
• We deliver regulatory consultancy within this framework.

Design Phase

• Identification of applicable standards and regulations
• Help in designing specifications
• Building of the test programmes
• Study of the technical construction file
• Suppliers' audits  (according to private rules)
• Study and expertise on electronic cards
• Study of the residual life duration
• Characterization of materials and components

Development phase

• Functionality and safety studies for materials, software and systems
• Testing and measures for EMC and environmental stresses
• Failure analysis, expertise
• Physical and chemical analysis
• Production and maintenance phases

Training