Compliance & Regulations

We are experiencing a major market disturbance that affects the supply of components and materials on a global scale. Currently, there exists more demand for components than supply on almost every sector. This has happened before in specific component categories but never on such a large scale. A unique situation in the history of global economy and electronics. There is an urgent shortage of almost every kind of electrical, metal and plastic component. The reasons for this are clear but what about the solution?

The requirements placed on MedTech products with connectivity are increasing. This is due to regulations such as the European Union’s Medical Device Regulation (MDR), and stricter cyber security requirements in health care.

A Swedish MedTech company, NeoDynamics, is transforming the diagnosis and care of cancer with its newly-launched biopsy system, NeoNavia. For a company that started its journey as a small startup, a close collaboration with an experienced partner has paved the way for achieving significant milestones.

Fault Tree Analysis can help keep your vehicle working, whether it is on Mars or in your neighbourhood.

Manufacturing costs are under continuous pressure. One can claim, that manufacturing costs have risen year after year. The increase in cost is due to many things such as the price of component costs, labor costs and quality costs. Quality is affected by many factors one of them being production testing. However, testing does not have to be a mandatory evil but can be translated into efficiency and benefits for the company. Many companies have seen that the similarity in test equipment and test methods on production lines can improve overall efficiency. Standardization of testing is one essential part of achieving efficiency. Standardization requires ownership of testing and continuous work which then minimizes the total cost of ownership.

Electronics manufacturers will soon be under new regulation that demands cybersecurity from their products, and even from their development process. Why is this happening, where does it apply, and what must be done?

New regulations will soon set cybersecurity requirements to almost all electronical products. For manufacturers this will mean that security should be integrated into the product development process. What does it take to ensure that end products are going to fulfill the rules?

Verify your memory bus performance with virtual compliance simulation (JEDEC) PCBs have become so dense that it is easier to simulate the impact of PCBs on bus performance than to measure it. Virtual compliance simulation for DDR3/4 buses takes into account the full impact of the PCB on memory bus performance. Additionally, the simulation allows the bus lines to be implemented inside the board reducing cross-talk. What could be more convenient than knowing that a critical bus will perform to specifications before the first prototype is ordered?

Commercial IoT devices today are in fact various types of meters, sensors, trackers and wearables, supporting number of industries: utilities, transport, automotive, agriculture, logistics, healthcare, warehousing and manufacturing – they are everywhere.