Automotive Component Testing

LabTest is the industry leader in assisting manufacturers in evaluating their automotive components as per the SAE Series of standards and the Automotive Directive. Our friendly and knowledgeable staff will provide you with the knowledge and assessments you need to get your automotive components evaluated for your intended markets.

LabTest can provide you with testing and evaluation of your "Electronic Sub Assemblies " (ESA) for:

• Temperature Tests
  • Dry Heat
  • Damp Heat
  • Cold
• Salt Spray Atmosphere
• Immersion and Splash
• Steam Cleaning and Pressure Washing
• Fungus
• Dust, Sand and Gravel Bombardment
• Altitude
• Mechanical Vibration
• Mechanical Shock
• General Heavy-Duty Truck Electrical Environment
• Steady State Electrical Characteristics
• Transient, Noise, and Electrostatic Characteristics
• Electromagnetic Compatibility
• Eleectromagntic Interference

e-Mark

Every ESA conforming to a type approved pursuant to this Directive shall bear an EEC type-approval mark.

This mark shall consist of a rectangle surrounding the letter 'e' followed by the distinguishing number or letters of the Member State which has granted type-approval:

• 1 Germany
• 2 France
• 3 Italy
• 4 the Netherlands
• 6 Belgium
• 9 Spain
• 11 the United Kingdom
• 13 Luxembourg
• 18 Denmark
• 21 Portugal
• 23 Greece
• IRL Ireland
  

It must also include in the vicinity of the rectangle the four-digit sequential number (with leading zeros as applicable) - hereinafter referred to as 'base approval number' - contained in Section 4 of the type-approval number shown on the EEC type-approval certificate issued for the type of device in question (see Annex IIIB), preceded by the two figures indicating the sequence number assigned to the most recent major technical amendment to Directive 72/245/EEC on the date EEC component type-approval was granted. In this Directive the sequence number is 02.

The EEC type-approval mark must be affixed to the main part of the ESA (e.g. the electronic control unit) in such a way as to be clearly legible and indelible.

Commission Directive 95/54/EC of 31 October 1995 adapting to technical progress Council Directive 72/245/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the suppression of radio interference produced by spark-ignition engines fitted to motor vehicles and amending Directive 70/156/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the type-approval of motor vehicles and their trailers

(The Automotive EMC Directive)