Resources for machine builders working in both markets
Two articles, written for the engineer who has to make a machine acceptable in a market that is not their own. Both name the article or the clause behind every regulatory statement, and neither reproduces the text of a standard.
What goes here is the background that does not belong on a service page: what a reader needs before the question they arrived with is even the right question.
The two articles
CE marking vs. UL certification. One of them is a declaration you make about your own machine. The other is a decision somebody else makes about it. What transfers between the two systems, what does not, and why neither one accepts the other’s paperwork.
Machinery compliance glossary. Thirty terms an engineer meets on the other side of the Atlantic, each with its nearest counterpart in the other system — and what breaks if you treat them as the same.
If you already know which direction you are going
Selling into the European Union. CE marking for machinery, the technical file, the Declaration of Conformity, and whether a third party is involved at all.
Selling into the United States and Canada. Who is actually required to do what, what has to change in the panel, and who signs off on each side of the border.
Not sure which of these you need? Tell us what the machine does and where it is going, and we will point you at the part that answers your question — or answer it directly.
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