Product Compliance – a process to assure that a product conforms to the specific regulatory requirements (laws, policies, regulations) which it is required to meet in order to place a product on the market.
Plaucon is your partner in meeting these requirements. Throughout the life-cycle of your product.
Market regulations play an important role in government or regulatory agencies for various economics-related purposes such as protecting the environment and economic management as well as for human safety.
Conformity marking shows compliance with the market regulations. Some of them are:
Product compliance shall be throughout the whole life-cycle of a product:
From transport, commissioning, operation, to scrapping.
The manufacturer is a legal or natural person who is responsible for the design, manufacturing and placing on the market. As a manufacturer, you must ensure that your products conform to the regulations of the market they are placed in.
An importer places a product from a third country on the market. Importers have the obligation to check if the manufacturer has fulfilled the requirements of the market regulation they are importing in. Besides that, if the product is accompanied by the relevant documentation.
A distributor acquires products for further distribution either from a manufacturer, from an importer, or from another distributor. You must be able to demonstrate to the national market surveillance authority upon request that you have checked to ensure the product supplier has followed all the relevant requirements.
It is important to deal with product compliance in an early phase of product development.
The more advanced a product is in its conception, the more cost-intensive it is to change the specifications.
This is why Plaucon supports you right from the start in analyzing the requirements for the market and compliance with standards.
Be confident that your product is compliant and save time and money.
Concentrate on your product – I will do the rest.
Standards are the tool with which a product is processed in order to be able to sell it nationally/internationally. Understanding which standards apply to my product and my application is essential.
With me you get exactly the overview you need: All requirements from the applicable standards from a single source. Not only that, but also the direction in which standards will develop in the future. We live in a very dynamic world with great technological progress. Changes in standards need to be monitored – so that your product is ready for the future.
With me, you can be sure that you won’t miss any changes and that your product meets the highest demands.
Activities that I carry out:
Product compliance does not only apply to the finished product at the end customer. Product compliance applies to all phases of the product’s life-cycle.
The product shall perform its intended function(s) during its life cycle where risk has been adequately reduced. The manufacturer’s responsibility begins with assembly and continues with transportation, operation, maintenance, and dismantling.
Due diligence obligations with regard to placing products on the market also represent a high requirement. Solutions must be found that take into account the circular economy and transition to green energy.
Identification of the applicable legislative acts
Selection of the applicable standards for your product
Put up all the requirements
Compilation of the technical documentation
Successfully placing on the market
You are not sure which requirements and regulations need to be fulfilled in the target market and want to place your product on this market safely and in compliance with the law. I will answer the questions that are currently on your mind.
The manufacturer is primarily responsible for product compliance. The responsibilities are then divided up within the company. A product compliance manager has the task of coordinating these responsibilities. Only when everyone contributes their part nothing stands in the way of a successful placing on the market.
Each economic area has its own requirements for product safety and the placing of products on the market.
These should already be recognised and implemented in the design phase of the product. If this is not done, cost-intensive changes may be necessary. This not only has a negative impact on the schedule but also on the budget.
This depends on how your quality management is organised. To name just a few actors, they all have an influence on product compliance: engineers, managers, purchasers, sales, etc.
The requirements for placing products on the market must be recognised and implemented by each responsible person.
That is why product compliance is a team effort. The challenge is to follow and manage the process precisely.
The short answer is ‘no’. First of all, different economic areas have different requirements for the product. To show this conformity, the product must be labelled with the Conformity Mark of the economic area.
In addition, different economic areas require different documentation and demand different tests. It is therefore important to enquire about the requirements before exporting to other countries.
That depends. Does your product go directly to an end customer or to a processing company? Some regulations relate directly to end products and end customers and some already include B2B.
With B2B marketing, it is important that the requirements that the product has to fulfil and which party will be responsible for the conformity assessment are contractually regulated in advance.
Placing your product on the market. Opportunities are there to be seized. Take the chance and contact me for a free 20-minute initial consultation.
+48 789 480 037
jan.kratky@plaucon.com
I offer you a free 20-minute initial consultation. During this initial consultation I would like to discuss your product and give you valuable advice. And I would be delighted if we could go down the path of product compliance together.
