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Part Selection for Simplifying Certification

Steve Barcik Amstel, our CEO and founder, has been sharing a video series, the process to get your product from where it is today through certification, CE marking, UL or whichever standard you need to get your product to market. Today our video is about part selection and how this critical aspect of the design

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BOMs – Your Bill of Materials

Our CEO and founder, Steve Barcik Amstel has been sharing through this video series, the process to get your product from where it is today through certification, CE marking, UL or whichever standard you need to get your product to market. In our video today, he will be talking about how High Tech Design Safety

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Top S2 and CE Non Conformances

This video is a continuation of our series on how to get your product certified to UL, CE marking or all the other types of certifications you might need…NFPA, etc. You are going to need your product certified at some point. We have talked about safety, warnings for manuals and labels and we have talked

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Manuals and Safety Warnings

Last week in our video, we talked about the process to get your product from where it is today through certification, CE marking, UL or whichever standard you need. Our CEO and founder, Steve Barcik Amstel talked about how High Tech Design Safety can help you with your manuals as well. Each of the standards

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The HTDS Process Through Certification

Last time we spoke about product certification UL, SEMI and CE for Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment, which is a very specific niche and where our business started. However we have expanded way beyond that and let’s talk today more broadly about all types of equipment, everything from life sciences and medical equipment to oil and gas

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Equipment Certification and Design Process

Do you have a piece of equipment that needs to be certified?  High Tech Design Safety’s CEO and founder, Steve Barcik Amstel walks you through the equipment design and certification process in this week’s video so that you have a clear understanding of what is necessary to get your product to market. The process works

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Ten Steps To Conformity

High Tech Design Safety is a global environmental and conformity firm that deals with product safety and equipment to support you getting your products to market. Wesupport you with UL listing, CE marking, FCC, EMC, EMI and all those other acronyms that lead up to you getting your product to market. This video will speak

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2018 Forecast from Steve Barcik Amstel

High Tech Design Safety’s CEO and Founder, Steve Barcik Amstel shares insights from 2017 and gives a glimpse into the state of the industry for 2018. 2017 was a fantastic year and we are very grateful for all of our clients, vendors, friends, and partners that were a part of the certifications , testing and

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Intro to Equipment Compliance and Conformity

Are you looking for solutions to get your equipment to market? If so, then this video is for you.  Principal/CEO, Steve Barcik Amstel presents an introduction to Equipment Compliance and Conformity to accelerate your path to market. In this video he covers the various standards that may apply and let’s you know how he and

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Full Capability for all SEMI, CE, UL Testing

Full Capability for all SEMI, CE, UL Testing Electrical Testing Lab set up with up to 200 amps 240 volts Temperature Testing Full Lab for RF / EMC / EMI / Signal Condition and Humidity Tracer Gas Testing Full Capability, with SF6 MFCs,  FTIR / Mass Gas Chromatography Ventilation Flow Testing Hot wire anemometer, magnehilic,

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How do we get a product certified? How do we begin a product certification process? What are the first steps to begin product certification? Can you start today, yes!

How do we get started? Firstly we will work to understand your equipment, this will be fairly rapid as we have worked on thousands of pieces and types of equipment over the years. Additionally this experience allows us to quickly and rapidly see existing conformity problems and errors if they exist or to see how

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What problems might I find in getting product safety certification and what problems might happen while trying to get certified? What is the fastest way to get my product certified?

What problems are there typically in getting complete? This, is often one of the final questions asked when starting a product conformity project. If your design or product has the following issues; Not designed to the required electrical standard / safety standard Lack of correct over current protection for system /sub-assemblies Use of sub-assemblies with

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How much Does CE cost? How much does UL certification Cost?

What does it cost? How much Does CE cost?  How much does UL certification Cost? This, of course, is always one of the first questions asked when starting the research process for product conformity. And here at High Tech Design Safety, I’d imagine we receive this question hundreds and hundreds of times a year, likely

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Semiconductor Equipment

We can help you with your Semiconductor Equipment listing and conformity. We can help you with CE, UL, NFPA, Everything else you need.  WE are a full service third party test and evaluation firm. We have been in the Semiconductor industry for 20+ years and have a wealth of knowledge about how to achieve your

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Registration and Approval

Large existing and early stage companies both can gain advantages using High Tech Design Safety to provide design support, conformity support and reduce time to market with CE Marking, UL Listing, and NFPA approvals.

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Product Safety

We can help you through completing the necessary registrations and approvals of your equipment needs. High Tech Design Safety is a Regulatory Compliance provider in many areas of hazards and standards. Specifically we manage Capital Equipment Compliance through completing 3rd party Evaluation and performing in depth 3rd Party Testing.  Your CE Compliance and CE Marking

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