Product Compliance Testing
Product Compliance Testing and Test Management
Scope, coordinate, and manage product compliance testing across markets and laboratories. Test the configuration you'll ship, reuse valid evidence, and avoid unnecessary retests.
The challenge
A test is only worth what the certificate can do with it.
Compliance testing is where product approval budgets go to die. A laboratory tests the sample it was sent, against the standard it quoted, and produces a report that's technically correct and practically useless: the wrong power adapter, an older firmware build, a radio module variant that isn't the one going to market. Months later a certification body or a customs authority notices, and the team pays for the test again.
Product compliance testing, done well, starts before the lab. It's the discipline of reading the product as built against every target market's requirements, deciding which standards apply and which don't, choosing test configurations that satisfy as many markets as possible from one program, and locking the sample, components, and documentation so the report can carry the certificate through customs.
ORBIS Compliance manages that discipline for global manufacturers as part of our Product Compliance Testing and Management service. Our certification engineers own the test plan. Your laboratory, or one of ours, runs the measurements. The result is evidence you can use across markets, not a shelf of reports that each describe a slightly different product.
What we manage
Every part of the test program that decides whether the report is usable.
- Applicability review. Which standards each market requires for this product, and which common requests don't apply.
- Configuration control. The exact variant, firmware, power supply, cable set, and accessories the report must describe.
- Test plan design. Sequencing safety, EMC, radio, energy efficiency, chemical, and environmental tests so shared evidence is captured once.
- Laboratory coordination. Scheduling, sample logistics, witness requirements, and accreditation checks for the markets you're entering.
- Report review. Reading the report before it reaches a certification body, so deviations are caught by us and not by the regulator.
- Evidence reuse. Mapping existing reports, including those from other providers, to new markets before paying for a retest.
How it runs
From scoping to a report the certificate can stand on
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Define the product
We document the configuration, variants, and target markets, and identify every component the report has to name.
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Decide what applies
Standards and test methods are mapped per market. Where guidance conflicts, ORBIS asks the regulatory authority directly rather than testing to be safe.
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Run the program
Testing is scheduled at your lab or ours, in the order that captures shared evidence once. Progress and documents are visible in ORBIS Intelligent Compliance.
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Review and release
Our engineers read every report against the configuration and the certification requirements before it goes to a certification body or a regulator.
The report should describe the product that clears customs, not the one that was convenient to send to the lab.
Working with your labs
Keep the laboratories you trust. Change who's accountable for the plan.
Many manufacturers have long relationships with testing laboratories, and those relationships are worth keeping. ORBIS doesn't ask you to replace them. What we change is the ownership of the test plan and the responsibility for how the evidence gets used in certification.
With authorized access, your laboratory can contribute test reports directly into ORBIS Cloud, alongside the product information your team maintains and the certificates other providers have issued. Your regional colleagues work from the same record. When a market asks for the report behind a certificate, nobody has to search three inboxes to find the right revision.
When a market's standard is ambiguous, or two laboratories give different opinions on applicability, we go to the authority. That's the difference between a test management vendor and a Legal & Engineering Global Regulatory Advisory.
Questions
Product compliance testing, answered
Can existing test reports be reused for a new market?
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Often, yes. Many markets accept reports to IEC or CISPR standards with national deviations, and some accept reports from specific accredited laboratories. ORBIS reviews each report against the new market's requirements and tells you what can be reused and what needs supplementing before you pay for a retest.
Does ORBIS operate its own laboratories?
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ORBIS coordinates testing through accredited laboratory partners and through your existing labs. Our role is the regulatory path: deciding what applies, controlling the configuration, coordinating the work, and reviewing the evidence before it reaches a certification body or regulator.
What happens if the product changes after testing?
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We assess the change against the report and the certificates that depend on it. Some changes need a declaration, some need a partial retest, and some need nothing. Saying which is which is part of the service, and it's how you avoid both an invalid certificate and an unnecessary test.
How does this connect to certification?
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Testing produces the evidence. Certification turns that evidence into permission to sell. ORBIS manages both, so the test plan is designed with the homologation or type approval requirements in mind from the start.
Test once. Use it everywhere it counts.
Bring the product and the markets. We'll tell you which reports you can reuse, which tests you still need, and how to run them so every certificate downstream accepts the evidence.
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