Components
Electronic Component Compliance and Certification
Certification for power supplies, radio modules, batteries, displays, and electronic parts sold to OEMs, designed so the products built around them get approved faster in every market.
The component maker's position
Your certificate is somebody else's critical path.
When an OEM chooses a component, they're choosing the evidence that comes with it. A broadly accepted certificate shortens their approval. A narrow or missing one lands on their test bill.
The category
Components are certified so end products don't have to prove the same thing twice.
Power supplies, radio modules, battery cells and packs, displays, transformers, switches, connectors, cables, and printed circuit assemblies are sold into products that will themselves be certified in many markets. When the component carries its own recognized certificate, the end-product evaluation references it and moves on. When it doesn't, the OEM has to generate the evidence inside their own program, at their own cost, on their own schedule. Component manufacturers who understand this compete on the quality of their compliance file as much as on the part.
The category has its own regulatory logic. Component standards define ratings, constructions, and conditions of acceptability rather than end-use safety. Radio modules are certified under modular approval rules with integration conditions the host must respect. Batteries carry safety, transport, and increasingly producer and passport obligations that follow them into every product. Recognition varies by market: a component certificate accepted in one certification scheme may need supplementary evidence or local certification in another.
ORBIS Compliance works with component manufacturers to design certification programs that maximize how broadly the resulting certificate can be used, and with OEMs to manage the critical component evidence their product approvals depend on.
Component types
Components we certify and manage
Power supplies and adapters
Safety certification under IEC 62368-1 and IEC 61558, energy efficiency compliance across markets, and the conditions of acceptability OEMs need to reference.
Radio modules
FCC, ISED, CE RED, and national modular approvals with integration conditions designed to cover the antennas and hosts your customers will use.
Cells and battery packs
IEC 62133 and IEC 62619 safety, UN 38.3 transport, national battery marks, and the producer obligations that travel with the battery into the end product.
Displays and panels
Safety, EMC, and increasingly energy and ergonomic data that display-integrating OEMs need for their own approvals.
Electromechanical parts
Switches, relays, connectors, fuses, transformers, and insulation systems certified to component standards with ratings the end-product standard recognizes.
Assemblies and sub-systems
Motor drives, control boards, communication sub-assemblies, and other partly completed products with their own certification routes.
Designing for reuse
A certificate is only as valuable as the range of uses it covers.
A power supply certified only for indoor use at limited ambient temperature can't be referenced by an outdoor product. A radio module approved with one antenna can't carry a host that uses another. A battery certified in one pack configuration doesn't cover the next. Every constraint in a component certificate is a product an OEM can't build on it without extra work.
ORBIS designs component certification with the end uses in view: the ratings, environmental conditions, antenna lists, host conditions, and market recognitions that make the certificate useful to the broadest set of customers. We think about which certification schemes your OEMs use in which markets, and pursue recognition accordingly, including CB Scheme reports that carry into national certifications.
For OEMs, we build and maintain the critical component list behind each product approval in ORBIS Intelligent Compliance. Supplier certificates can be contributed to ORBIS Cloud with authorized access, so when purchasing proposes a substitution the affected approvals are visible and the assessment is fast.
Questions
Component compliance
Does a component need its own certification, or can it be tested inside the end product?
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Both are legitimate routes. Certifying the component once is more efficient when it's used in many products or by many customers. Testing within the end product is sometimes unavoidable for custom parts. ORBIS helps component makers and OEMs choose the route per part based on reuse, cost, and schedule.
Which markets require local certification of components?
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Several require national certification for specific components, most often power supplies, plugs, cords, and batteries, regardless of international certificates. Others accept CB Scheme reports for national marks. ORBIS maps recognition per component type and market.
How do we manage component changes without breaking customer approvals?
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By understanding which of your customers' certifications reference your component and what each scheme considers a significant change. Construction changes should be assessed and, where required, notified to certification bodies and customers before they ship. ORBIS manages that process for component manufacturers.
Make your component the easy one to design in.
Bring the component, its ratings, and the markets your OEM customers sell into. We'll design a certification program that gives them the evidence they need and gives you a commercial advantage.
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