Compliance 101
The goal of most companies is not to only design products to be safe, perform according to customer demands, and to meet regulatory requirements, it is to sell those products globally. While your product must comply with the EMC and SIPI requirements, there are a myriad of other technical requirement that must also be considered to facilitate the sale of the product.
The plan for this tutorial is to delve into some of the “other technical requirements” that products must comply with, including product safety requirements (ie, concepts such as fire, shock, mechanical, temperature, and radiation); and then once your products are compliant, we will discuss the commercialization of the product through obtaining the many country approvals that are needed in order to legally sell the product around the world.
This tutorial should be attended by product realization managers, design engineers, test technicians, product regulatory personnel, project managers, marketing personnel, and others interested in learning more about product safety and global market access requirements. The intent of Compliance 101 is to provide a basic knowledge of Product Safety and Regulatory Compliance for products sold worldwide. The presentation covers the requirements for those involved in new and existing products and those who need to address global safety requirements. This training will provide the fundamental guidance for product safety which can support geographic sales for import and export around the world.
Instructor
Ken Kapur
Mr. Ken Kapur is currently the Director of Global Product Compliance at Thermo Fisher Scientific. Ken is an expert is regulatory compliance and has been working with product regulations for over 30 years. Ken’s experience includes a number of management and technical roles at companies such as Agilent, KLA-Tencor, Seagate, AMD, Trimble and AT&T.
Ken started his work in the area of product safety with Underwriters Laboratories (UL); he has expanded his expertise to include EMC, Environmental, Chemical, SEMI and related regulations as they pertain to Global Market Access. Ken has been on a number of technical standards committees; he has had roles in writing standards and has conducted independent evaluations of numerous products under a wide range of product categories.
Ken has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Pacific. He is a Senior IEEE Member and has been very involved in the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society over the years with roles that include Chair of the Santa Clara Valley PSES Chapter and VP Member Services as part of the PSES Board of Governors. Ken has been invited to speak at a number of international forums on topics such as Product Safety, Regulatory Compliance and Environmental Compliance.
Publication Year: 2021